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"Andres64" |
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10 Jan 2004 05:10:03 PM |
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OT: Lies, lies, lies, yeah (Part II)... |
Bush Planned Iraqi Invasion Before Sept. 11-Report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a
new book that President Bush (news - web sites) entered office in
January 2001 intent on invading Iraq (news - web sites) and was in
search of a way to go about it.
O'Neill, who was fired in December 2002 as part of a shake-up of Bush's
economic team, has become the first major Bush administration insider to
launch an attack on the president.
He likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of
deaf people," according to excerpts from a CBS interview to promote a
book by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, "The Price of
Loyalty."
To go to war, Bush used the argument that Iraq possessed weapons of mass
destruction and had to be stopped in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world. The
weapons have never been found.
"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein
(news - web sites) was a bad person and that he needed to go," O'Neill
said in the "60 Minutes" interview scheduled to air on Sunday. "For me,
the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do
whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."
CBS released excerpts from the interview on Friday and Saturday.
The former treasury secretary and other White House insiders gave
Suskind documents that in the first three months of 2001 revealed the
Bush administration was examining military options for removing Saddam
Hussein, CBS said.
"There are memos," Suskind told CBS. "One of them marked 'secret' says
'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq."'
Another Pentagon (news - web sites) document entitled "Foreign suitors
for Iraqi Oil Field Contracts" talks about contractors from 40 countries
and which ones have interest in Iraq, Suskind said.
BENT ON WAR
O'Neill was also quoted in the book as saying the president was
determined to find a reason to go to war and he was surprised that
nobody on the National Security Council questioned why Iraq should be
invaded.
"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it," said
O'Neill. "The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this."'
White House spokesman Scott McClellan rejected O'Neill's remarks.
"We appreciate his service. While we're not in the business of doing
book reviews, it appears that the world according to Mr. O'Neill is more
about trying to justify his own opinions than looking at the reality of
the results we are achieving on behalf of the American people,"
McClellan said Saturday.
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean (news - web sites) accused
Bush of using questionable pretenses to justify war with Iraq.
"The country deserves to know -- and the president needs to answer --
why the American people were presented with misleading or manufactured
intelligence as to why going to war with Iraq was necessary. Secretary
O'Neill's comments only underscore the continuing importance that these
outstanding questions be answered," Dean said in a statement.
O'Neill also said the president did not ask him a single question during
their first one-on-one meeting, which lasted an hour. The president's
lack of engagement left his advisers with "little more than hunches
about what the president might think," O'Neil told "60 Minutes."
Suskind's book, whose full title is "The Price of Loyalty: George W.
Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," uses
interviews with O'Neill, dozens of White House insiders and 19,000
documents provided by O'Neill.
O'Neill, who was fired due to disagreements over tax cuts, spent a
difficult two years in Washington, joining the Bush administration with
a background as a no-nonsense corporate executive.
--
Andres64
a.a. #1624
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall.
- Confucius
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: Lies, lies, lies, yeah (Part II)... |
10 Jan 2004 11:41:00 PM |
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"Andres64" <AndresC64DONTSPAM@excite.com> wrote in message
news:4000864B.7D9FA622@excite.com...
Bush Planned Iraqi Invasion Before Sept. 11-Report
More than ever it seems like a plan to use our boys
as his weapon to avenge his father's albatross.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Lies, lies, lies, yeah (Part II)... |
11 Jan 2004 05:36:30 PM |
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:41:00 GMT, "Geoff" <gebobs@yahoo.nospam.com>
posted to alt.atheism:
"Andres64" <AndresC64DONTSPAM@excite.com> wrote in message
news:4000864B.7D9FA622@excite.com...
Bush Planned Iraqi Invasion Before Sept. 11-Report
More than ever it seems like a plan to use our boys
as his weapon to avenge his father's albatross.
And, if he and his friends get rich on the oil it gives them control
over, he won't lose too much sleep over the lives he destroyed to
achieve his goal.
--
"We should do unto others as we would want them to do unto us. If I were an unborn
fetus I would want others to use force to protect me, therefore using force against
abortionists is *justifiable homocide*."
- "Pro-Life" doctor killer and corpse Paul Hill
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "Will" |
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| Title: Re: Lies, lies, lies, yeah (Part II)... |
12 Jan 2004 12:26:51 AM |
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Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message news:<9en3001682o8cma4huipts1cbhe614f410@Pern.rk>...
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:41:00 GMT, "Geoff" <gebobs@yahoo.nospam.com>
posted to alt.atheism:
"Andres64" <AndresC64DONTSPAM@excite.com> wrote in message
news:4000864B.7D9FA622@excite.com...
Bush Planned Iraqi Invasion Before Sept. 11-Report
More than ever it seems like a plan to use our boys
as his weapon to avenge his father's albatross.
And, if he and his friends get rich on the oil it gives them control
over, he won't lose too much sleep over the lives he destroyed to
achieve his goal.
Don't forget the billions in dollars of Government contracts you and I
are currently supporting with our taxes, and the deficit our children
will support with theirs.
Will
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