Time to find out how the war was sold (Salt Lake Tribune)

[ovidsen]

This is the question: What did the president want us to know, when did he want us to know it and what, if any, resemblance did it bear to the truth as he knew it?

The American people deserve an answer to that question. And they should not have to wait for the publication of Donald Rumsfeld's regretful memoirs to get it.

Since before the invasion of Iraq, there has been widespread suspicion that the arguments used by the Bush administration to win the support of Congress, the United Nations and the American people for the war were, at best, mistaken, at worst, falsified or, at least, filtered to justify a preconceived plan to dethrone Saddam.

Wednesday, in court papers filed in the case of ex-White House official Lewis Libby, there was more to suggest that the White House was improperly, if not illegally, leaking facts and theories justifying the war while continuing to sit on key data that might undermine the administration's position.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3686483

[C_U_L8R]

1. Oh come on !

What's with the press.. weren't they paying attention all along ???!!!!!!

Unbelievable.

[Grateful for Hope]

2. I think the press

will be engaging in a massive CYA effort as more comes out about the lies that got us into war.

[Skittles]

10. an effort to wash the blood of their hands

a futile effort

[ovidsen]

3. This IS Utah...

And Utah is about as Red a state as there is (although SLC's Mayor Rocky Anderson is a Democrat).

Getting Red staters to even think "treasonous" thoughts such as this is a step in the right direction.

[Skittles]

9. NOW they are asking questions

what a bunch of derelict assholes

[UpInArms]

4. 9/15/2002: Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President

http://www.sundayherald.com/27735

15 September 2002

A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.

The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says: 'The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.'

The PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests'.

This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for 'as far into the future as possible', the report says. It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core mission'.

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* and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies the creation of a 'world-wide command-and-control system'.

...more...

Where has the US muddia been? We, here at DU, have known all of this since before *Co was annointed by the felonious five.

[ktlyon]

6. in fact PNAC pre-dates the Bush administration

most of the people in this administration supported this concept and it was advanced to Pres. Clinton in or around 1998.

[Kahuna]

5. If you really want the answer best to wait until Dems take control of

Congress. Otherwise you'll get another whitewash.

[jbfam4]

7. It's past time....but better late than never

Let's all call of e mail Hatch and send him this article.

[rodeodance]

8. I agree, and this coming from UTAH, is great (if UTAHians will READ it)

[WhiteTara]

11. Incredible! Salt Lake Tribune is calling

monkey boy a criminal! This is such a good sign. Oh happy day, the pukiest of the repukes is saying, whoa nelly!
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