......Treason to our CIA, and criminal negligence.
But all of this was done to serve one and only one purpose which goes down in infamy as the worst purpose of
all time in our era.
The purpose?
OIL.
``There was an absolutely closed mind,'' Kay tells AP. ``They would not look at alternative explanations in these cases,'' specifically the aluminum tubes and bioweapons trailers.
In December 2003, Kay flew back to Washington and met with Tenet and CIA deputy John McLaughlin. ``I couldn't budge John, and so I couldn't budge George,'' he says. Kay resigned, telling the U.S. Congress there had been no WMD threat.
Ex-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, speaking for Tenet, points out that Kay himself, in Senate testimony at the time, said the tubes remained an ``open question,'' although it was ``more than probable'' they were rocket casings.
The Bush administration then sent Charles Duelfer - like Kay a senior U.N. inspector from the 1990s - to take over the arms hunt. He arrived in time for Tenet's secret visit and palace pep talk on Feb. 12, 2004, but, like Kay before him, Duelfer could find no sign of WMD.
Still, the pressure continued. Barton, recruited as a Duelfer adviser, told AP the American chief inspector received an e-mail that March from John Scarlett, head of Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee, urging that nine ``nuggets,'' past allegations, be dropped back into an interim report by Duelfer's group.
Those ``sexy bits,'' as the Australian called them, are believed to have included, for example, baseless speculation that Iraq worked to weaponize smallpox. Duelfer called the nuggets ``fool's gold,'' Barton says, and left them out.
Asked about this, the British Foreign Office said Scarlett contacted Iraq Survey Group leaders as part of his job, but that the report's content was Duelfer's responsibility alone.
Barton said CIA officers in the Iraq Survey Group insisted that its reporting should not discredit the mobile-labs story ``because that contradicts what Tenet has said.'' They also wanted the report to suggest the tubes might have been for centrifuges, although Duelfer's experts concluded otherwise.
Duelfer's interim testimony to Congress in March 2004 said nothing about mobile labs and said the tubes remained under study.
As late as Sept. 30 last year, in an election debate, Bush stuck to his views.
``Saddam Hussein had no intention of disarming,'' Bush maintained.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5251616,00.htmlIt just goes to show you, in over 100 years we have learned almost nothing. We still plot to kill eachother and take over the world, just so we can have control over the resources of fuel & water and not have to think about some 'crisis' later.
The only problem is, in our ignorance and in the shadow of people like Bush we create a crisis. A world crisis, one that can't be solved unlike terrorism. The crisis of having everything we worked for energy wise blow up in our face.
When I think back on what has happened in Ohio, I shudder as there were multiple opportunities to bring about a different result. But even in California, they were developing and succeeding in bringing about alternative fuels. Yet through all our greed, and selfish worldview we mocked the concept of alternative energy.
I've seen it happen for years. Downplaying the prospects of having different possibilities of fuel because it was too expensive, too problematic or not lucrative enough of a business. Well, here is what it has brought us. A great divide between selfish and selfless. And in the middle of that, an energy crisis.
So like scientists have been warning everyone for years, it is within our power to change things. If we only want to change it, and not create more disaster. I do believe global warming could have been slowed down. I'm not a "coincidence" theorist. I believe we had a choice, and a chance. And instead of doing what we should have done right then, we snubbed our noses.
Either way I see this is the age of accountability and we must demand it from every single represenative.
Contact your people in congress and elsewhere, demand the president and vice and their secretaries resign.
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htmOne day we will look back on this, and think to ourselves this was our turning point. I hope to see that day.
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