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INVASION OF IRAQ PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION



 
 
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Old January 10th, 2004, 06:24 PM
Fly Guy
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Default INVASION OF IRAQ PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL ONEILL SAYS INVASION OF IRAQ WAS
PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LONG BEFORE 9/11,
IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SUNDAY ON "60 MINUTES"

Sat Jan 10 2004 09:12:37 ET

The Bush Administration began laying plans for an invasion of Iraq
including the use of American troops within days of President Bush's
inauguration in January of 2001, not eight months later after the 9/11
attacks as has been previously reported. That is what former Treasury
Secretary Paul O'Neill says in his first interview about his time as a
White House insider. O'Neill talks to Lesley Stahl in the interview,
to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Jan. 11 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on
the CBS Television Network.

"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein
was a bad person and that he needed to go," he tells Stahl. "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," says O'Neill.

O'Neill, fired by the White House for his disagreement on tax cuts, is
the main source for an upcoming book, "The Price of Loyalty," authored
by Ron Suskind. Suskind says O'Neill and other White House insiders he
interviewed gave him documents that show that in the first three
months of 2001, the administration was looking at military options for
removing Saddam Hussein from power and planning for the aftermath of
Saddam's downfall, including post-war contingencies like peacekeeping
troops, war crimes tribunals and the future of Iraq's oil. "There are
memos," Suskind tells Stahl, "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan
for Post-Saddam Iraq.'" A Pentagon document, says Suskind, titled
"Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," outlines areas of oil
exploration. "It talks about contractors around the world from...30,
40 countries and which ones have what intentions on oil in Iraq,"
Suskind says.

In the book, O'Neill is quoted as saying he was surprised that no one
in a National Security Council meeting questioned why Iraq should be
invaded. "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone
of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" says
O'Neill in the book.

Suskind also writes about a White House meeting in which he says the
president seems to be wavering about going forward with his second
round of tax cuts. "Haven't we already given money to rich people,"
Suskind says the president uttered, according to a nearly verbatim
transcript of an Economic Team meeting he says he obtained from
someone at the meeting, "Shouldn't we be giving money to the middle?"

O'Neill, who was asked to resign because of his opposition to the tax
cut, says he doesn't think his tell-all account in this book will be
attacked by his former employers as sour grapes. "I will be really
disappointed if [the White House] reacts that way," he tells Stahl. "I
can't imagine that I am going to be attacked for telling the truth."
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Old January 10th, 2004, 10:18 PM
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Fly Guy wrote:

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL ONEILL SAYS INVASION OF IRAQ WAS
PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LONG BEFORE 9/11,
IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SUNDAY ON "60 MINUTES"


No, it was done as early as 1998 whe the axis of evil (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz
Cheney) started to prepare the foreign policy for the Bush Administration
under the "new american century" organisation.

in a National Security Council meeting questioned why Iraq should be
invaded. "It was all about finding a way to do it.


Exactly.
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Old January 10th, 2004, 10:54 PM
jcoulter
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Default INVASION OF IRAQ PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION

Fly Guy wrote in :

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL ONEILL SAYS INVASION OF IRAQ WAS
PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LONG BEFORE 9/11,
IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SUNDAY ON "60 MINUTES"


The only surprise here is that anyone is surprised (other than my die hard
Republican mother that is) by the revelation.
 




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