Blogger’s FOIA request reveals new insight into Bush Administration’s early fixation on Iraq.
Submitted by Erik on February 18, 2006 - 8:09pm.
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Remember, General Clark was saying this from the beginning, and people scoffed. -- Larry
On February 10th, a blogger at outragedmoderates.org received the notes from meetings held by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the hours after the attacks on 9/11. The note, penned by DoD staffer Steven Cambone and obtained thru a Freedom of Information request, verifies Bob Woodward’s assertions in his book, “Plan of Attack”. Contrary to Bush administration claims that they were not pre-disposed with Iraq before 9/11, these newly obtained documents prove that the attacks of 9/11 were used as a pre-text to invade Iraq.
These notes, referred to, but not quoted in the 9/11 Commission Report are in direct conflict with the commission’s assertions that Wolfowitz alone, and not Rumsfeld or Bush, was the one pre-occupied with using 9/11 as a reason to invade Iraq in the hours and days following the attacks. (Commission Report pgs. 334-336)
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Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, the 9/11 Commission Report was flawed, since it did not address "Able Danger" nor adequately review the Cambone memo; I beleive that they were mandated to investigate events leading to 9/11 only; and prevented from investigating the intel, as Bush's basis for war against Iraq...(right??). So instead, they blamed the Intelligence community (pre 9/11), rather than W's negligence to prevent 0/11; and his deliberate distortion of intelligence evidence, afterwards.
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maybe some one credible could make an honest movie about this
since most americans dont read anymore
That oughta keep George Cloony busy for at least the next ten years. He'll be like Harison Ford to Tom Clancy, except truth IS stranger than fiction.
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General Clark's honest assessments are one of his greatest assets. That, and the people who believe in him.
As usual, Gen. Clark is proven right and the established candidates, who downplayed Clark as not knowing what he was talking about, have egg on their faces!!!
I'm not talking about the Kool-Aid drinkers. They are hopeless.
I'm talking about the moderates we need to vote for us in order to win elections.
So this will spread through the blogosphere, be all over the internet and I would bet that the Corporate Press will never ever mention it! sigh...
Thanks for the link Erik! The guy filed the FOIA July 2005. I'm actually pretty amazed they gave it to him!
From outragedmoderates.org:
The documents are available as a photo set on Flickr, and or you can download them in PDF format -
all clickable links are there ^, but I don't know what Flickr is.