More Evidence Bush Was Going To War In Iraq No Matter What

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Book says CIA tried to provoke Saddam to war

Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday September 7, 2006
The Guardian


More than a year before the invasion of Iraq the CIA devised a plan, codenamed Anabasis, to use Iraqi exile fighters to seize an air base and declare a revolt against Saddam Hussein in the hope that his response would create a pretext for war, according to a book published tomorrow.

The plan was ultimately rejected by General Tommy Franks, who led the invasion in March 2003, but the CIA-backed fighters carried out sabotage operations and assassinations of Ba'athist officials in the run-up to the war, the book, called Hubris, reports.

Hubris, by investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn, adds more weight to a body of evidence that the White House was determined to go to war from early 2002. Planning on Anabasis, which cost $400m (£210m), started at the end of 2001 and was approved by President Bush in February 2002. CIA agents entered Iraq to recruit volunteers two months later. Talking to his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, in May 2002, President Bush made clear his intentions towards Saddam when he said: "I'm going to kick his sorry motherfucking ass all over the Mid East," according to another press aide, Adam Levine, who witnessed the conversation.

The covert CIA preparations for war have been previously reported, but this is the first time details of the plan have been made public. According to the book, the CIA flew 80 former Iraqi soldiers into the US in the summer of 2002, and trained them at an energy department nuclear test site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1866298,00.html

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1. the little eunuch just had to be a war president

He and his buddies figured the base would not be concerned if a whole bunch of people got killed and who cares what liberals think.

bush let 9-11 happen so he would have something resembling a reason to attack Iraq. Damn good thing that CIA guy covered his ass.

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2. It baffles me that anyone

can still believe that POS asshole Bush didn't have this plan in his coke addled brain since he started angling for the job.

He was always pissed that people said daddy didn't finish the job so he and his chickenhawk neo-con frauds decided to try to finish it. Killing thousands in the process, but that's never bothered a modern repuke.