WHY DID THE BUSH ADMIN WANT WAR?

GET THE FACTS BEHIND THE NEWS

Even before 9/11 the Bush Administration had decide to go to war with Iraq. Paul O’Neil Bush’s first Secretary of the Treasury reported in his booK “The Price of Loyalty” that the war in Iraq was planned from the first National Security Council meeting soon after the admin took office in 2001. Why this action by the Bush Admim?

The action of the Bush Admin in seeking war merits a close look. There is an important untold story that needs to be investigated and brought to public light

In 1998 a group of neo-conservatives, Chenney, Rumsfeld, Wilfowitz, etc wrote Pres Clinton a letter stating that Iraq had nuclear weapons and advising a preventive war in stead of a policy of containment. The writers did not state when and how they obtained this information. In Oct 97 the IAEA UN group reported that Iraq was clear of nuclear weapons. For the next several years till the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 this conflict remained. The Bush people despite several briefings from the CIA, State Dept, Energy Dept, Security Council and others refused to accept the other depts conclusions and insisted that Iraq had nuclear and chemical weapons and was working with alQueda. In fact the neo-cons grew so angry and frustrated with the other gov’t research depts information that contradicted the neo-cons beliefs, that Donald Rumsfeld in Sept 2001 setup his own research dept in the Pentagon. The dept was called called the “Office of Special Plans.

In August, 2002 the Downing Street secret memo(later leaked) in which the head of British intelligence informed Prime Minister Blair” that the Bush White House was so determined to go to war in Iraq that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” Patrick Lange of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Gary Thielman of the State Intelligence Group later confirmed this opinion. Interviews with current and former intelligence officials and other experts reveal that the Bush administration culled from U.S. intelligence those assessments that supported its position and omitted those that did not. The administration ignored, and even suppressed, disagreement within the intelligence agencies and pressured the CIA to reaffirm its preferred version of the Iraqi threat. Similarly,it stonewalled, and sought to discredit, international weapons inspectors reports when their findings threatened to undermine the case for war. What was the purpose behind this?
Aluminum, tubes, disclosing a CIA agent and other strange behavior next blog.