A bit of a refresher: Background on the Lies of Invading Iraq

[Roland99]

THE STOVEPIPE
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How conflicts between the Bush Administration and the intelligence community marred the reporting on Iraq’s weapons.

SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?

The new Pentagon papers
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/ - By Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski

Hijacking Catastrophe
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm - by Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col. USAF retired)
Hijacking Catastrophe is powerful, understated, straightforward and educational. In a single meticulously organized hour of evidence and analysis, viewers are treated to a thoughtful explanation of modern American empire, neo-conservatism as a driving force for the current Bush administration.


Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/hijacking_catastrophe.rm (right-click and Save As)...this requires Real Player (I use Real Alternative) to view

IRAQ ON THE RECORD - THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ (PDF)
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs_108_2/pdfs_inves/pdf_admin_iraq_on_the_record_rep.pdf
This report, which was prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, is a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It finds that the five officials made misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 125 public appearances. The report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific misleading statements by the five officials.

The Fifth Estate: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/
Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form and regardless of the outcome of this fall's election, he will continue to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. The fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others and what history's judgement could be.

Watch the Video
http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/CBC/UnauthorizedCheneyBiography.mov 110MB (Requires Quicktime Player)
Note: This video also shows the LIE involved in justifying the Gulf War in 1991 wherein the U.S. gave fake satellite photos to the Saudis to get them to invite our military into their country. They (the CBC) obtained Russian sat. photos from the same day that did not show Iraqi troops and tanks amassing on the Kuwait/Saudi border. The St. Petersburg Times (FL) and the Christian Science Monitor also have articles discussing these faked satellite photos.

This film also uncovers what was going on in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans (OSP). They interview Seymour Hersh who wrote Selective Intelligence and also The Stovepipe and they interview Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski who wrote The New Pentagon Papers and worked in the OSP run by Wolfowitz/Feith.

PBS Frontline Documentary - Rumsfeld's War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/
In "Rumsfeld's War," FRONTLINE and The Washington Post join forces for the first time to investigate Donald Rumsfeld's contentious battle with the Pentagon bureaucracy to assert civilian control of the military and remake the way America fights.

This report traces Donald Rumsfeld's career from his time as an adviser to President Nixon to his rise as the oft-seen and well-known face of the George W. Bush administration during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In interviews with key administration officials, military leaders, and reporters from The Washington Post, the documentary examines how a secretary of defense bent on reform became a secretary of war accused of ignoring the advice of his generals.

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