From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Northwood wasn't a 'war game'. It was drawn up shortly after that CIA
sponsored invasion fiasco known as the 'Bay of Pigs'.  They were just as
obsessed with Cuba then as Bush is obsessed with Iraq.

 -"Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" was
provided by the
JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, -

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:465a46a2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Oh, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, yes I'm sure there are hundreds of
> thousands of "war games" plans crafted by our government,
starting from
> before we declared our independence.
>
> There are certainly a lot of interesting scenarios to play out and use for
> overall defense enhancement, but to forward the idea that they'd attack
> cities to provoke war as a seriously considered actuality is just not
> washing, but I guess it proves the "truthers" know no bounds to their
> conspiracy mongering. 
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:465a36e9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Sorry Mark - The National Security Archive at George Washington
>> University archives and publishes declassified government files.
>> Operation Northwoods is just one of them. You can access the PDFs at this
>> link
>>
>> http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark wrote:
>>> Ah c'mon John, this stuff is just nutty.
>>>
>>> Gary has it right: "It's a load of crap." >> first saw "Independence Day" I found the idea of the
nutty scientist in
>>> Area 51 with the alien spaceship under wraps for 50 years pretty
>>> convincing >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>>> news:op.ts0fr4cxm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>> "As public interest in the assassination swelled after
JFK's release,
>>> Congress passed a law designed to increase the public's access to
>>> government records related to the assassination.
>>>
>>> The author says a friend on the board tipped him off to the
documents."
>>>
>>> The documents are government records and, it seems, they are available
>>> for
>>> inspection.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 27 May 2007 15:02:48 -0400, Gary Britt
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> And after you read that first paragraph you have to suspend all
>>>> rational disbelief and believe in the tooth fairy and massive evil
>>>> doing.
>>>>
>>>> Its a load of crap.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>> John Beamish wrote:
>>>>> There's a lot of crazy talk that the flights into the
twin towers were
>>>>> a US government act designed to provide a pretext for
war in Iraq.
>>>>>  How crazy is that?  You just have to read the first para.
>>>>>  http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=92662
>>>
>

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