A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.The Bush administration was desperately looking for reasons to attack Iraq after the 9/11 attacks. There is all sorts of evidence supporting that belief. But actually ordering the forging of a document as an excuse for war? Remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Just where is our country heading and why are we letting it go to hell in a hand basket?
Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.
The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
The letter’s existence has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.’”
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
White House Forgery for War Excuse?
Surely this did not happen. Not by my government.
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One of three brain dead drone americans still... still think 'W' is doing a good job! Now, if you believe the latest propaganda, 1 in 2 are buying into Mr. McCain's steaming pile of @%#@&. 45 new Nuke Power Plants, OMG! Drill for oil off Florida to punish their Republican Gov. and a US Senator who have broken ranks. We are either witnessing the implosion of the Republican Party or the new Facist government, is flexing its muscle, confident in the fact that no matter how we vote, ChucK Hagel's machines will assure McCain a victory.
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