Researchers and investigators look around for evidence that answers the questions Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. They follow leads down trails, turn stones, open drawers and doors, folders and books....looking for anything that might be evidence to solve the riddle. They gather anything that could be fact-supporting proof. They know, they'll also carry with them meaningless details and items gathered, just in case they prove to be valuable articles of evidence.
The CIA and other intelligence cooperatives were doing this while watching Saddam. Their job was to track anything that seems suspicious and document their findings. Rumors and bogus documents are no exception. Everything and every one is suspicious, unless proven otherwise. If cops and FBI agents are expected to handle investigations this way, what makes a person think that the CIA and other intelligence agencies should maintain a different approach?
CIA agents documented allegations and bogus papers suggesting that Saddam Hussein may have conspired to rebuild the WMD arsenol that he'd lost over twelve years ago. When Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney carped on the agencies to deliver evidence to prove that Saddam Hussein was guilty of doing something that warrented war on Iraq and a regime change in that country, the agencies provided reports on Hussein and with them, doubtful remarks that insufficient evidence existed to back the Saddam/WMD speculations.
At the end of 2002, as Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice and Perle, were beating war drums more loudly and feverishly, British Prime Minister, Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister, John Howard carried the beat to their homelands. Meanwhile, thunder-struck members of the intelligence community watched the results of their work undergo mutation obviously intended for propaganda to induce enough fear in the hearts of Americans and Britons to gain the public support for war that it couldn't gain from several members of the United Nations. (Until blackmail and bribary changed minds of U.N. members.)
Close observers noted the twists and turns in the claims Bush regime members and British PM Blair made on seperate occasions, well documented by the media. It's as if this gang hadn't learned to remember their own lies, lies based on sketchy and isolated intelligence reports. They exhibited classic errors known to bust liars. They waffled on their claims with grand statements alleging that Saddam Hussein already had super-duper powerful missiles aimed at the U.S.A.
No Wait!
...Aimed at Great Britain! (Yeah, yeah! That's It!) Great Britain had less than an hour to prepare for a WMD attack from Iraq, read one British newspaper story.
Wait! That's not it. Saddam was only planning these alleged weapons. Then again, he was already building and gradually stockpiling them. Or is it that Saddam was merely contemplating it? But then again, he committed the Orwellian thought crime, because he desired to do it, which is grounds for a pre-emptive military strike, according to Bush, Blair and the other chickenhawks that pounded the hell out of that war drum as easily duped citizens in both lands, particularly in the United States, danced madly around them, waving flags as they gyrated and screamed for war.
Most Americans and the majority of U.S. Congress members weren't paying close enough attention to what these guys and that gal (Condi Rice) were saying. For some reason, they failed to catch contradictions in the Bush Regime's and Tony Blairs claims. None of them appeared to also make the connection between global oil supply depletion and the richness of oil in the Persian Gulf and across Iraq, nor did they see how all this had to do with corporations that make up a part of the U.S. and British oil industries (but mostly U.S.) that are tied to every neocon in the Bush Cartel regime.
But some people were paying attention, searching in all the right places and turning to the right sources to figure out why the Bush regime really wanted to attack Iraq and oust former Bush and Rummy pal, Saddam. Like the staff at From The Wilderness, which has been building evidence all along to prove why the Bush regime wanted this war and what these neocons have done to get what they want. With help from Special Forces veteran, Stan Goff, the From The Wilderness team has been building the case to prove that the regime's drive to attack Iraq is linked to depleting world oil supplies and the rich supplies located in the Persian Gulf and Iraq. As soon as one link was made between the push for war and the facts about oil supplies began to circulate around the web and through offline alternative media sources, government insiders, most notably in the U.S. Intelligence community, gradually left their jobs and united to urge the active intelligence community to start leaking information revealing the truth to the public and press. The former intelligence community members formed a group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, where they worked together to get the truth out that the Bush regime insisted intel insiders cough up any kind of information they could conceive, even invent, to give the illusion that the U.S. and U.K. had justifiable reasons to attack Iraq without provocation.
CIA insiders revealed that Dick Cheney was unsatisfied with the answers he was getting from the CIA.
Cheney wasn't getting anywhere with standard procedure and his frequent trips to interrogate and pressure CIA analysts to tell him what he wanted to hear. Thus, Donald Rumsfeld established the Office of Special Plans (OSP), outside formal intelligence channels to stove-pipe selective data that supported the "WMD reason for pre-emptive attack on Iraq" goal. They then selected men within the CIA willing to tell them what they wanted to hear.
Dick Cheney sent former Ambassador Joseph Wilson to Nigeria to bring back evidence that supported the bogus Nigerian "yellow cake" story (later debunked). The ambassador returned home to inform Cheney that there was no Hussein/Nigerian yellowcake link. Wilson later passed this on to the press. When Cheney learned that Joseph Wilson had publicly revealed the results of his Nigerian trip to the press, Dick Cheney and the other neocons were furious with Wilson, enough to degrade him to the media and get revenge.
As soon as right-wing nut columnist Bob Novak publicly exposed classified information on Wilson's wife (Valarie Plame Wilson), as a CIA agent (N.O.C.) and her front operation, Brewster Jennings Associates, Bush regime watchdogs and some intel insiders immediately suspected that Karl Rove, or his minions, leaked this information. (To expose a CIA agent and the agent's cover is a federal offense, punishable by law and, according to G. W. Bush's father, the greatest act of treason.) Some media insiders questioned about who told them, indicated that the leak came from the White House via phone calls.
Why would a government insider expose an agent and risk the life of that agent and the lives of networked covert agents and cooperatives in the field? The answer: to punish Joseph Wilson via his wife and send a warning to others in the government and intelligence community to comply with the regime and watch what they say in public..., Or else! Evidently, columnist Bob Novak was willing to risk their lives, regardless of the legal risk that he took to do it. He was, afterall, serving his masters. Novak refuses to name his source. The leak is now being investigated by a pre-dominantly Republican Congressional committee.
Several members of the Intelligence community, the military, and also former U.S. Treasury Paul O'Neill have publicly revealed that when the Bush regime dislikes official testimony and advice, no matter how sound and fact-based, the neocons regect it. Bush fired Paul O'Neill for repeatedly telling him something he didn't want to hear (Not to drastically cut taxes for the rich).
Recently, Paul O'Neill revealed a bounty of inside information about the Bush regime's dirty tricks in the book, The Price of Loyalty, by former Wall Street Journal reporter, Ron Suskind. During a recent interview on the CBS show, 60 Minutes, O'Neill said:
"Almost as soon as George W. Bush took office in January 2001, he and his top advisors were plotting a regime change in Iraq."....At Bush's first National Security Council meeting 10 days after the inauguration, O'Neill said going after Saddam Hussein was topic "A." "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" said O'Neill.
He said, "[T]hat he was surprised that during the first National Security Council meeting questions like "Why Saddam?" and "Why now?" were never asked. (Source for O'Neill's comments PR Watch Spin of the Day quote from CBS News)
Members of the Bush regime and its loyal spin artists reacted predictably in the Karl Rove style of rumor-mongering smear campaign to punish O'Neill by discrediting him as their first response to cover their tails (again). The attention O'Neill's remarks were getting was causing a buzz through a growing number of mainstream media sources that had previously and flat-out ignored the tremendous amount of information provided by alternative and foreign media proving that the Saddam/WMD claims were a hoax.
The result of this hoax has caused the following:
Over 500 U.S. troops died in the line of duty (This figure does not account for the total number of U.S. troops that died over there). Over 6,000 U.S. troops suffered severe wounds. Unknown thousands of Iraqi people have died (The Pentagon refuses to take count and reveal how many Iraqis were killed. (The numbers of dead Iraqi civilians are based on media and other sources that are unable to get a full count because of the violent situation in Iraq.) Journalists (some embedded, many independent) from around the world that reported on the war, and those continuing to report, have also been counting their victims, many that were deliberately killed by U.S. troops, acting on Pentagon orders to snuff out independent reporting of the war and to prevent and stop leaks of information the Pentagon is afraid will be leaked to the public. The Pentagon refuses to come clean with a solid figure and evidence proving the number of troops that have taken their own lives, stating an indefinite figure of 19, but non-government researchers are trying to track down relatives of troops that took their own lives to get a solid figure.
Demands for WMD inspections before the war turned up nothing. The Bush regime attempted to suggest that Saddam had pressured the U.N. to leave, but that's a lie based on an incident years ago when Saddam ousted inspectors because, as our own media also reported, Saddam suspected CIA agents were posing as U.N. inspectors. Saddam cooperated with the U.N. inspections that took place before the war. Any resistence from government employees and other Iraqis was mild and short-lived, usually nothing more than grumbling and argument, like when inspectors tagged non-WMD missiles for destruction. The CIA had also been searching before and during the war, until they recently decided to abandon their efforts after their search failed to turn up any shred of concrete evidence, other than a few castor beans and decrepid old weapons that were useless and contained no chemical or biological WMD substance.
This is interesting to note, because members of the Bush regime had suggested that they knew exactly where the weapons were, that the weapons were aimed at our country and they referred to massive amounts. Colin Powell had provided a digital-media cartoon example to the U.N. showing exactly what he and the rest of this regime insisted was the set-up where the WMD were allegedly stored. Given the watchful eye of U.S. satilite and intelligence technology and intel man-power, there's no way Saddam could have possibly hidden those weapons, let alone, smuggled them across the Iraq border into another country. The tractor trailors the Bush regime eventually claimed were used to transport WMD materials, or act as WMD labs, turned out to be trailors from Great Britain used for helium balloons.
It's obvious that the Bush regime violated the U.N. treaty established to prevent pre-emptive strikes. The neocons and their token, Colin Powell, told lie after lie in their effort to convince everyone that the attack would be/was justifiable. To paraphrase former CIA analyist, Ray Mc Govern, there was nothing to pre-empt". All the while, Intelligence insiders were coming out to tell whatever media sources would listen that the information the Bush regime was using was unreliable and that the Bush regime refused to listen to them when they said as much.
The Bush regime planted their own man, CIA Chief Weapons Inspector, David Kay, to join the search for the WMD evidence that never existed. After giving up on the fruitless search where no real evidence was found, David Kay admitted to the whole country via the media that there was no evidence of the alleged WMD program. Ever loyal to the Bush regime, Kay must have assumed that none of us had learned about Cheney's biased refusal to acknowledge the CIA's reports that there was no WMD evidence, because Kay twisted the truth when he blamed the agents' reports for misleading the Bush regime and stated that the intelligence community owed Bush an apology. (Asia Times- Bush Barking Up CIA's Tree)
Actually, George W. Bush and the other neocons owe an apology to every Iraqi, to every American, to the families of all troops sent to Iraq, to all surviving troops used for that war based on a lie, to the United Nations and to the world. They also need to apologize to our country's intelligence community for now trying to shirk responsibility for their own actions by scapegoating the intelligence community..
America's corporate media also needs to apologize to the American people for failing to practice professional journalism that could have prevented the war.
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