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Iraq Invasion Ordered Weeks After 9/11


By jimstaro - Posted on 04 February 2011

This is born out in the testimony of the Brit Iraq War Inquiry especially in the early testimony!

I used the following, and there were other references, in a post during the early phase of the Inquiry, day nine to be exact:

Drip, drip, drip, ""He recalled noting that: "the dog didn't bark - it grizzled." Don't forget - this 'grizzling' for regime change was 6 months BEFORE 9/11."". drip, drip, drip, ""But there was a 'sea change' in attitude after the atrocities, with former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice targeting Iraq on the very day of the outrage."", drip, drip, drip, ""George Bush tried to make a connection between Iraq and al-Qaida in a conversation with Tony Blair three days after the 9/11 attacks, according to Blair's foreign policy adviser of the time."", drip, drip, drip, ""There was "a touching belief [in Washington] that we shouldn't worry so much about the aftermath because it was all going to be sweetness and light"."", drip, drip, drip, ""Boyce mentions the "dysfunctionalism" of Washington. He says that he would find himself briefing his American counterparts on what was happening in different parts of the US adminstration. Rumsfeld was not sharing information"", drip, drip, drip...........!

Confirmed then in the testimony now confirmed by rumsfeld which shows they were much more interested in destroying Iraq, and taking down Saddam, then what happened on 9/11, this just gave them the excuse to do so and as we've been witness to, In Our Names, concern about al Qaeda and bin Laden were way down their list no matter what had happened!

Invasion ordered weeks after 9/11, says Rumsfeld

February 4, 2011 - FORMER US president George Bush asked his defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to draw up plans for the invasion of Iraq just two weeks after the atrocities of September 11th, 2001, Rumsfeld reveals in Known and Unknown: A Memoir , which will be released on February 8th.

The Bush administration’s false claim that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks was believed by nearly 70 per cent of Americans.

Rumsfeld took his title from his own allegation that Iraq intended to provide weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to terrorists: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know,” Rumsfeld told a press conference in 2002.

Mr Rumsfeld now says he regrets saying “We know where they are” regarding Saddam’s alleged WMD. None were ever found. And Mr Rumsfeld is sorry he dismissed the European allies who opposed the invasion of Iraq as “old Europe” and “the chocolate-making countries”. {continued}

In and around the Sept 11th date since a phrase has arisen "We will not forget!", well guess what, the multiple 9/11's we did to Iraq over the years since "They will never forget!"!!

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