ALERT! Planning for post-Saddam regime change began 01!

[FreedomAngel82]

All I have to say is: duh. It actually began in 1997 or so. I heard an interview once on Alex Jones' site of a guy who claimed to know Cheney in college and he was planning all of this then. The guy was saying he was going to sue Cheney but I haven't heard anything from that. :shrug:

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB163/index.htm

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State Department experts warned CENTCOM
before Iraq war about lack of plans for
post-war Iraq security

Planning for post-Saddam regime change began
as early as October 2001

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 163

Posted - August 17, 2005

For more information: Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7000

Washington, D.C., August 17, 2005: Newly declassified State Department documents show that government experts warned the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in early 2003 about "serious planning gaps for post-conflict public security and humanitarian assistance," well before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.

In a February 7, 2003, memo to Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky, three senior Department officials noted CENTCOM's "focus on its primary military objectives and its reluctance to take on 'policing' roles," but warned that "a failure to address short-term public security and humanitarian assistance concerns could result in serious human rights abuses which would undermine an otherwise successful military campaign, and our reputation internationally." The memo adds "We have raised these issues with top CENTCOM officials."

By contrast, a December 2003 report to Congress, also released by the State Department, offers a relatively rosy picture of the security situation, saying U.S. forces are "increasingly successful in preventing planned hostile attacks; and in capturing former regime loyalists, would-be terrorists and planners; and seizing weapons caches." The document acknowledges that "Challenges remain."

Since then, 1,393 U.S. military fatalities have been recorded in Iraq, including two on the day the report went to Congress.

The new documents, released this month to the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act, also provide more evidence on when the Bush administration began planning for regime change in Iraq -- as early as October 2001. >

More at the link....

[ck4829]

1. Also discovered - Bush's checklist for war (dated October of 2001)

Dudes - X

Bombs - X

Planes - X

Submarines - X

Guns - X

A Reason -

Political Capital Required -