The mainstream media talks about PNAC, Iraq & 9/11!!!!

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I was completely floored when I read this in my hometown newspaper: Iraq/ it was never about 9/11.

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Chief proponent of this strategy was a group called the Project for the New American Century. PNAC is headed by William Kristol, editor of a neoconservative magazine, the Weekly Standard. Prominent associates of PNAC in the late 1990s included: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz; Under-Secretary of State for nonproliferation John Bolton; U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick; former chairman and current member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board Richard Perle, plus several other DFDP members; current National Security Council staffer and alum of Iran-Contra Elliott Abrams, and Vice President Dick Cheney.

During the last years of the Clinton administration, PNAC associates were scathing in their review of U.S. policies toward Iraq: Attempts to contain Saddam had failed. Iraq was within as little as three months of being a biological weapons threat to its neighbors and Israel. Only military action against Saddam would be effective....

...As is clear now, the American people were sold a bill of goods by a small cadre of PNAC ideologues, bent on attacking Iraq, who latched onto the opportunity provided by Osama bin Laden and his crew of suicidal, airplane-hijacking terrorists. The price? Scores of billions of dollars, hundreds of young American lives, the standing of the United States in the world, plus the credibility of President Bush and his neocon cronies.

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Has any other major-market daily discussed this, or taken BushCo and its PNAC cabal to task yet? If not, this is big news. Every once in a while, the Strib nails one. This is one of those times, IMHO.

All I can say is, "where have you been the last two years?"

[northernsoul]

1. Strib editorial staff are the greatest

They drive local freepers nuts!
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[NJCher]

2. hooray for the Star Tribune

We should email them and let them know we appreciate that editorial.

This a.m. on the BBC report on NPR, they discussed how Iraqis are angry because the big contracts are going to firms supervised by Halliburton and how the contracts are padded and full of graft and corruption. This is great. I hope this story gets more play so people understand what a scam this thing has been all along.


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