Slyly lying, George W. Bush delivers the cover story for the war that uselessly murdered between 268,000 and 295,000 men, women and children – – –
This is where Cheney’s cherry-picked disinformation was concocted – – –
At issue is a secret Pentagon committee headed by Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, that is widely believed to be responsible for gathering much of the erroneous intelligence information used by President Bush and senior White House officials on the so-called Iraqi threat, specifically, its ties to al-Qaeda.
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The Pentagon unit, called the Office of Special Plans, was formed, according to published reports, after the 9-11 terrorist attacks to find links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. …About a dozen former CIA intelligence officials have been quoted as saying that the Office of Special Plans cherry-picked intelligence, much of which was gathered by unreliable Iraqi defectors, to make a stronger case for war and delivered directly to Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice without first being vetted by the CIA. –Wolfowitz: Iraq Not Involved in 9-11, No Ties to al-Qaeda, by Jason Leopold Antiwar.com
Here’s what it looked like to most other insiders – – –
And finally here’s the truth: This is where G.W. Bush’s Iraq “war” REALLY came from via Bush’s highly respected Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill – – –
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