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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
05 Jul 2004 03:21:21 AM |
| Object: |
OT: Laurie Mylroie |
Did one woman's obsession take America to war?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1254003,00.html
She is a conspiracy theorist whose political conceits have
consistently been proved wrong. So why were Bush and his aides so keen
to swallow Laurie Mylroie's theories on Saddam and terrorism? By Peter
Bergen
Monday July 5, 2004
The Guardian
Americans supported the war in Iraq not because Saddam Hussein was an
evil dictator - they knew that - but because President Bush made the
case that Saddam might hand weapons of mass destruction to his
terrorist allies to wreak havoc on the United States. In the absence
of any evidence for that theory, it's fair to ask: where did the
administration's conviction come from? It was at the American
Enterprise Institute - a conservative Washington DC thinktank - that
the idea took shape that overthrowing Saddam should be a goal. Among
those associated with AEI is Richard Perle, a key architect of the
president's get-tough-on-Iraq policy, and Paul Wolfowitz, now the
number-two official at the Pentagon. But none of the thinkers at AEI
was in any real way an expert on Iraq. For that they relied on someone
you probably have never heard of: a woman named Laurie Mylroie.
Laurie Mylroie
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Laurie%20Mylroie%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Laurie+Mylroie%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Laurie+Mylroie%22&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Laurie%20Mylroie&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
American Enterprise Institute
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22American+Enterprise+Institute%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22American+Enterprise+Institute%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22American+Enterprise+Institute%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=American%20Enterprise%20Institute&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
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