From: Bill Lucy 

In article ,
jcuccia{at}bigfoot.com says...

> The Bushies also created their own intelligence claiming Iraq-AQ
> links, cynically using the 9/11 attacks to build support for the war.
> Here's the latest revelation.  They knew this guy was lying, but
> repeated those lies to both the public and to the UN.    There really
> is no more doubt that the Bush people lied to the country and the
> world in order to generate and maintain public support for the
> invasion.
>
> It looks more and more like the Bushies and Al-Qaeda wanted the same
> thing: the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.  AQ couldn't do it themselves
> but were smart enough to know that they manipulate the Bushies to
> ensure that it was done.

I just read a surprising essay by William Lind regarding the reason we went
to war (as given by Secretary Rice):

http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?
actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpDefense&htmlCategoryID=30
&htmlId=4234



"in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Miss Rice said

'that it was always the Bush administration's intent to redesign the
Middle East after the September 11 attacks, which exposed a "deep
malignancy growing" in the region, and that the Iraq was part of that
plan.'"


Lind believes we made the decision to invade Iraq before any consideration
of WMDs was done.

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