Hours after 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld allegedly said, 'My interest is to hit Saddam'

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Hours_after_911_attacks_Rumsfeld_allegedly_0502.html

According to NBC's chief Pentagon correspondent, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that his "interest is to hit Saddam Hussein" just hours after the attacks on September 11, 2001, "even though all indications pointed at al-Qaida as the guilty party," a Rhode Island newspaper reports.

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"Some things are right on the mark, when he says the Bush administration appeared predisposed to attack Iraq," Miklaszewski says of Tenet's book At the Center of the Storm.

The NBC correspondent's "information" comes from "off the record" notes given to him from an unidentified person who was "in the White House situation room in the hours after the attacks."

"However, the notes describe, Miklaszewski said, then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld vowing to avenge the terrorist attacks by voicing frustration that attacks against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983 and the attack on the Cole, in 2000, had gone unavenged," Mooney writes. "Reading from his notes, Miklaszewski quoted Rumsfeld as saying five hours after the terrorist attacks: 'My interest is to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time we go after al-Qaida.'"

No surprise to us but I hope this helps generate more public interest in impeachment (and refocusing on the Downing Street Minutes)

[sabra]

1. Miklaszewski has had this info for 2 years, and decides to share it now?

:mad:

[pepperbear]

2. please keep in mind that political climate is everything. n/t

[dflprincess]

4. The political climate would have changed a lot faster if the media

had told the truth from the beginning.

[capi888]

3. I heard him say it!!!!! ON 911!! Shall never forget that moment!

Rummy was helping carry out people at the Pentagon. A reporter (don't know which media) yelled at him, "Who do you think did this, Secretary??? He yelled back, "Saddam Heiusen"!! I wish I knew who the reporter was! I was watching CNN. I said to myself, YEP, they are going to pin this on Saddam....no matter what!!!

[Roland99]

5. $20 that's not on the DVD you can buy from CNN.

[Madspirit]

6. k&r...n/t