{"id":30628,"date":"2018-02-07T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30628"},"modified":"2018-02-07T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T20:02:33","slug":"9-11-was-the-excuse-for-an-already-planned-invasion-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30628","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

9\/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq<\/a><\/h3>\n
9\/11 was the neoconservatives\u2019 \u201cNew Pearl Harbor,\u201d the excuse the neoconservatives said they needed to launch Washington\u2019s invasions of the Middle East. As General Wesley Clark told us, the plan was seven countries in five years. The plan had nothing to do with \u201cweapons of mass destruction,\u201d Osama bin Laden, \u201cbringing democracy to dictatorships,\u201d \u201cliberating women,\u201d \u201cAssad\u2019s use of chemical weapons,\u201d \u201cIranian nukes,\u201d or any of the blatant lies concocted by the neoconservatives and fed to an obedient presstitute media and accepted by a gullible public.<\/div>\n

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O\u2019Neill Reminds Us That the Invasion of Iraq Was on the Menu 8 Months Prior to 9\/11, the Alleged Excuse for the Invasion. From a review of Suskind\u2019s book:<\/p>\n

The book, \u201cThe Price of Loyalty\u201d, written by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, is an alarming insider account of the way the Bush White House is run, based on a series of interviews with former administration officials, most notably [former Treasury Secretary Paul] O\u2019Neill, who got the axe a little over a year ago because of his opposition to Bush\u2019s policy on tax-cuts. In the book, O\u2019Neill raises some harsh criticisms of the Bush administration. Among his most powerful charges is a claim that the Bush administration was planning to invade Iraq within days of taking office.
\nAppearing in an interview on CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on Sunday night to promote Suskind\u2019s book, O\u2019Neill sharply criticized the Bush administration:
\n\u201cO\u2019Neill says that the president did not make decisions in a methodical way: there was no free-flow of ideas or open debate. At cabinet meetings, he says the president was \u2018like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection,\u2019 forcing top officials to act \u2018on little more than hunches about what the president might think.\u2019<\/p>\n

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9\/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq 9\/11 was the neoconservatives\u2019 \u201cNew Pearl Harbor,\u201d the excuse the neoconservatives said they needed to launch Washington\u2019s invasions of the Middle East. As General Wesley Clark told us, the plan was seven countries in five years. The plan had nothing to do with \u201cweapons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,3218,7419,442,522,3429,2951,17656,18403,18404,865],"class_list":["post-30628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-10","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-general-wesley-clark","tag-iraq","tag-middle-east","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-paul-oneill","tag-ron-suskind","tag-the-price-of-loyality","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions\/30630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}