Downing Street Memo Redux: DoD Provides New Evidence of Bush ‘Fixing’ Pre-War Intel

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http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/04/06/downing-street-memo-redux-dod-provides-new-evidence-of-bush-fixing-pre-war-intel/

Downing Street Memo Redux: DoD Provides New Evidence of Bush ‘Fixing’ Pre-War Intel
Posted by Jon Ponder | Apr. 6, 2007, 11:53 am

There is a new report out from the inspector general at the Dept. of Defense that provides clear evidence that senior Bush officials at DoD “fixed” the pre-war intelligence on Iraq to suit their policy of fictitiously connecting Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, in order to motivate the public to go to war against Iraq.

(A normal president would be held accountable if proof were offered from within his own government that his team deliberately falsified intelligence in order to trick the country into going to war. And yet this revelation yesterday is barely even news.)

In particular, the IG’s report includes a January 2002 memo from Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon architect of the war who was then deputy defense secretary, written to Douglas Feith, DoD’s number three official:

“We don’t seem to be making much progress pulling together intelligence on links between Iraq and Al Qaeda,” Wolfowitz wrote…

Using Pentagon jargon for the secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, he added: “We owe SecDef some analysis of this subject. Please give me a recommendation on how best to proceed. Appreciate the short turn-around.”

…The memo marked the beginnings of what would become a controversial yearlong Pentagon project supervised by Feith to convince the most senior members of the Bush administration that Hussein and Al Qaeda were linked — a conclusion that was hotly disputed by U.S. intelligence agencies at the time and has been discredited in the years since.

What this brings to mind, of course, is a key section of the Downing Street Memo:


You recall that the “memo” was actually the minutes of a meeting of top officials in Tony Blair’s government in July 2002 — seven months into the “yearlong project” to link Saddam and 9/11.

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[ShortnFiery]

1. In BushWorld, if you f**k up in a way that promotes endless WAR, you score the Medal of Freedom

.:crazy:

Screwing up and creating more death and destruction of innocents is what leads to peace. War is Peace ... correction: ENDLESS War is Peace according to our Unitary Executive.

No one has the nerve to stand up to our Idiot King now that the M$M is OWNED by The Pentagon. :scared:

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2. Speaking of medals, Tenet's book is supposed to be out soon,

if it's not already. I wonder how 'hardhitting' that will be? :eyes:

And the media whores are owned by the Pentagon?

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3. There is PsyOps tweaking that is coordinated with the M$M ... for national security. wink wink

Also, just consider what profits the M$M and will allow for further consolidation, i.e., a Republican led Congress and Presidency. The Pentagon is getting the lion's share of the monies which it smartly doles out to private contractors who (Ta Da!) advertise their stuff on the M$M.

I know WHAT we AMERICAN CITIZENS are *all* working for with our tax dollars: Perpetual WAR! :grr:

On Edit: Tenet is the ultimate "team player" and will not print any damn thing that may make our Idiot King and Darth Cheney look bad. Hell, he'd have to give up that prized Medal of Freedom. :P