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dinsdag 17 september 2019

9/11 voorkennis verzwegen in officiële rapporten

Tijdens en vlak na de Twin Towers aanslagen, werden een aantal Israëlische mannen gearresteerd die feestvierden met de WTC ramp op de achtergrond. Het was duidelijk dat ze feestvierden n.a.v. de aanvallen op de Twin Towers..... Volgens eigen zeggen waren zij Mossad agenten die werden uitgezonden om de vernieling van het WTC te filmen, zo verklaarden ze later op de Israëlische tv...... Zonder enig onderzoek werden de mannen vrijgelaten en mochten ze zelfs terugreizen naar Israël.......

Paul Craig Roberts, de schrijver van het Information Clearing House artikel dat hieronder is opgenomen, schrijft verder over de 'daders' en haalt intussen al bekende zaken aan, als dat deze daders onmogelijk de vliegtuigen in de Twin Towers kunnen hebben gevlogen, een zaak die zelfs geroutineerde piloten naar eigen zeggen niet kunnen (de daders zouden een paar vlieglessen hebben gehad in kleine vliegtuigjes). Het is dan ook duidelijk dat de zogenaamde daders werden begeleid door of geheime diensten van de VS en/of Israël, dit om de false flag operatie, die 9/11 was, te verhullen.... Overigens werden de vliegtuigen volgens een aantal deskundigen op afstand bediend....

Ook genoemd door Roberts de aanval op het Pentagon, daar moeten diverse camera's beelden hebben opgenomen van wat er werkelijk gebeurde, deze beelden worden al 18 jaar lang door de FBI afgeschermd voor het publiek en de politiek. Iedereen met meer dan 2 hersencellen kan zien dat er nooit een vliegtuig in het Pentagon kan zijn gevlogen, daarvoor was de schade veel te gering (en dat is nog maar 1 van de redenen die aangeven dat het geen vliegtuig kan zijn geweest, maar waarschijnlijk een raket van de VS.....)

Nog een vreemde zaak, de telefoontjes uit het vliegtuig dat in Pennsylvania zou zijn neergestort: in die tijd was het nog onmogelijk om met een mobiele telefoon vanuit een vliegtuig te bellen met het thuisfront...

Roberts betoogt terecht dat wanneer een handjevol terroristen de VS zo hebben kunnen misleiden (als men het publiek wil doen geloven), Rusland zelfs al ten tijde van de Sovjet-Unie de VS en West-Europa zonder veel moeite kon hebben weggevaagd......

Zoals dik is bewezen sinds 11 september 2001 is het neerhalen van de Twin Towers middels vliegtuigen een onmogelijke zaak, daarnaast hebben deskundigen de resten van heftige springstoffen teruggevonden in de puinhopen van 9/11...... 

Hoeveel bewijs heb je nog nodig om in te zien dat 9/11 een door de VS overheid gecontroleerde aanslag was...... Roberts noemt nog een aantal zaken, die duidelijk maken dat 9/11 een door de VS (waarschijnlijk met hulp van Israël) opgezette zaak is..... Bush en Cheney zouden hebben geweigerd te getuigen voor de 9/11 commissie...... De leidende figuren van deze commissie stellen zelfs dat ze tot bepaalde zaken geen toegang hadden, dat men werd voorgelogen en dat het de opzet was dat de commissie zou falen......

Het gaat zelfs zover dat de VS overheid zelf de leugen heeft gelanceerd dat de gebouwen door een kernwapen dan wel een gericht-energiewapen (o.a. laser en deeltjesstralen) werden neergehaald om degenen die niet geloven in de officiële lezing in een belachelijk daglicht te stellen en daarmee de aandacht af te leiden van de werkelijke reden van instorting van de gebouwen...... 

Lees het volgende artikel en zegt het voort! De aanslagen zijn nu 18 jaar geleden, daarbij kwamen volgens zeggen 3.000 mensen om het leven, als reactie daarop heeft de VS alleen in Irak al meer dan 1,5 miljoen mensen vermoord (met hulp van andere NAVO-lidstaten), in Afghanistan zouden dit er rond de 500.000 zijn (al houdt het westen veel lagere aantallen aan....). Als reactie daarop hebben we 'islamterreur' op de straten van Europa en zijn er enorme vluchtelingenstromen opgang gekomen, voorts zijn onze privacyrechten zo goed als helemaal uitgekleed (al is dat laatste ook de duidelijke opzet van de 9/11 aanvallen, zie de bevoegdheden en de enorme geldstromen die de geheime diensten erbij kregen na 9/11.....)

Some of the Many Things Most Americans Never Heard About 9/11

By Paul Craig Roberts

September 14, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - The “Dancing Israelis” who turned out to be Israeli Mossad agents caught filming and celebrating the destruction of the twin towers. Arrested by police and released without investigation, they were not mentioned in the 911 Commission Report.  Later on Israeli TV they said they were sent to New York to film the destruction of the twin towers.  Allegedly, there was no advance warning of the event, but obviously the Israelis knew.  

The alleged fundamentalist orthodox fanatical Muslims who were prepared to die to be martyrs, but who drank, drugged, and lived with strippers and prostitutes in Florida. They were the patsies paraded through flight schools and left a highly visible public record.  They all flunked out and could not even fly small planes, but performed miraculous flight feats in their attacks on the WTC towers and Pentagon that military and civilian airline pilots say are beyond their own skills.  These Saudi Arabians were being operated by US or Israeli intelligence to create a record to serve as a parallel patsy operation that could be used to cover up the false flag attack.

Numerous video cameras recorded whatever exploded at the Pentagon, but the FBI has refused to release them for 18 years. Clearly, the videos do not support the official story.

About half of the alleged hijackers have been found alive and well and deny that they had ever left their countries.  

In 2001 no cell phone calls were possible from aircraft at the altitudes from which calls were reported. 

The airliners that allegedly hit the twin towers were flimsy compared to the steel and concrete of the towers.  The airliners would have smashed against the structure and fallen to the street below.

Pre-knowledge of 9/11 was widespread.  The stocks of the two allegedly hijacked airlines were sold short prior to the event, resulting in large profits when the stocks fell in response to the hijackings. The short-sellers were swept under the carpet and not investigated.
FBI director Robert Mueller was instrumental in covering up for the false official story of 9/11, a story that has zero evidence in its behalf.

If a handful of young men with no intelligence service or government support can defeat the entire national security state of the United States and all of its NATO and Israeli allies and successfully attack with devastating results both New York and the Pentagon itself—the very symbol of American military supremacy—the Soviet Union could have wiped out the US and all of Europe without detection.  Don’t you wonder how we survived the Soviet Union when the “Great American Superpower” was so easily defeated by a handful of young Saudi Arabians?

Four hijacked airliners are alleged hijacked, all at airports served by an Israeli security company. 
All four airliners allegedly crash.  Two into the WTC towers, one into a field in Pennsylvania, and one into the Pentagon.  Yet no airliner debris exists.  The Pentagon’s lawn is not even scratched.
The President of the United States refuses to testify before the 9/11 Commission unless he is accompanied by his handler, Vice President Cheney.  Both refuse to testify under oath. The 9/11 Commission is oh-so-respectful to the distinguished president and vice president.

One member of the 9/11 Commission, a US Senator, resigned from the Commission, saying that “the fix is in.”  After the Commission report was issued, the Commission chairman, vice chairman, and legal counsel wrote books in which they said that information was withheld from the Commission, that the Commission was lied to and considered referring the false testimony to the Justice (sic) Department for prosecution, and that “the Commission was set up to fail.”  And not a peep from the controlled pressitute media whose only function is to deliver the controlled explanations that the ruling oligarchs want planted into Americans’ minds.

Tenants of the WTC buildings reported constant noises, floors sealed off, service disruptions and that the excuse was the installation of fiber optic cable. If the buildings faced condemnation as reported because of asbestos fireproofing, who would go to the expense of installing fiber optic cable to upgrade the Internet capability of condemned buildings?

Scientists have found reacted and unreacted nano-thermite and other elements used in controlled demolition.  They have proved the existence of these elements.  They have samples from the WTC dust left which they have offered to scientists and governments for testing in order to prove or disprove their own findings.  No takers.

Instead, we have the appearance of nonsensical claims that the WTC buildings were brought down by a directed energy weapon and by nuclear bombs.  These are preposterous allegations, the purpose of which is the deliberate creation of disinformation in order to focus attention away from the false official story and bury it in disagreements about what caused the buildings to fail.
I have checked with weapons specialists who are critics of US government foreign policy and who monitor every development in weapon systems in the US and Russia. This is what they tell me:  “I can confidently state that no direct energy weapon, capable of demolishing such a structure at the Twin Towers, existed in 2001, nor does it exist today.”

Another reported that there are lab tests of directed energy in Russia but no deployed weapon. He suggested that people who believe in this fantasy story should explain the safe source of high energy that the alleged weapon used, and how it was moved on site and removed without detection.  Moreover, a directed energy burst would show on detectors which monitor the electromagnetic spectrum.  No such evidence exists. Since no such weapon has ever been tested to bring down skyscrapers, why would the government take the risk of using such a weapon for the first time in a public scenario where who knows what could go wrong and explanations would have to be given?  And why reveal to foreign powers the existence of such a weapon?  Controlled demolition is an old and familiar technology that works.  And it did.
I could go on and on.  

As I wrote in a previous column, when Americans fell for the 9/11 deception, they lost their country, and peoples in seven countries lost their lives, limbs, and families.


Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the WestHow America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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Zie ook:
'9/11 en de voorkennis van de aanslagen in de VS'

'9/11: New Yorkse brandweercommandanten vragen een nieuw onderzoek naar de aanslagen op het het WTC in 2001'

'9/11 No Question, It Was Controlled Demolition'

'9/11: de teller voor het aantal door VS/NAVO gedode mensen staat intussen op meer dan 2,5 miljoen'

'SPECIAL REPORT - More Censored 9/11 History'

'First The Explosion And Then The "Planes"'

'9/11 "The Palestinians cheered" hoax'

'9/11 Wiring The Buildings'

MIKE PENCE – FAKE ANTHRAX VICTIM?:


THE CIA-VISA FRAUD THAT PRECEDED 9/11 (5 min.):

Zie verder over Irak: 'Misvormde kinderen in Irak door gebruik van verarmd uranium in VS munitie' (en zie de andere links in dat bericht naar de oorlog in Irak)

donderdag 21 maart 2019

Irak oorlog: 16 jaar na 20 maart 2003 ontkent de perschef van Bush dat er is gelogen om Irak binnen te vallen.....

Het gore lef wat sommigen hebben is niet zelden ten hemel schreiend, zoals de perschef van president Bush (deze oorlogsmisdadiger en top-idioot mag zich president blijven noemen). Ari Fleischer (de perschef) nam het besluit e.e.a. via Twitter de wereld in te helpen, waarschijnlijk als reactie op de dreigementen van de VS tegen het Internationaal Strafhof dat men actie zal nemen tegen de functionarissen, die zich bezig houden met onderzoek naar VS oorlogsmisdaden.......

Ongelofelijk wat ploert Fleischer durft te zeggen, terwijl de hele wereld weet (of kan weten) dat de VS heeft gelogen, leugens die meer dan 2 miljoen Irakezen het leven heeft gekost, ofwel die mensen zijn in feite vermoord door de VS......

Fleischer doet net of de geheime diensten van de VS, Israël en nog een paar landen zeker wisten dat er massavernietigingswapens lagen in Irak, weliswaar klopte dit niet, maar dat is iets anders dan liegen, aldus de hufter..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Alsof die geheime diensten ook maar de neiging hebben om de waarheid te vertellen, jezus!!

De wapeninspecteurs van de VN, o.l.v. Blix, hebben uit en te na gewezen op het feit dat Irak (onder Saddam Hoessein) geen massavernietigingswapens had en deze zelfs niet voor hen verborgen kon hebben.....

Overigens liet de Hoop Scheffer, oorlogsmisdadiger van het CDA, vorig jaar weten nog steeds achter de illegale oorlog tegen Irak te staan, ondanks het enorme aantal slachtoffers, een land dat voor een groot deel in puin ligt en waar de oorlog nog lang niet is afgelopen...... Irak, een land waarnaar Nederland vluchtelingen deporteert, rechtstreeks de oorlog in, dit op basis van ambtsberichten van Buitenlandse Zaken, terwijl hetzelfde ministerie nog steeds een negatief reisadvies voor Irak afgeeft....

Caitlin Johnstone schreef op haar site een uiterst scherp artikel over deze zaak en laat van Fleischer en anderen geen spaan heel, lezen mensen, het gaat hier om geschiedvervalsing van de eerste orde, ook de reguliere (massa-) media doen net of hun neus bloedt als het om de illegale Irak oorlog gaat, terwijl zij deze oorlog op valse feiten van A tot Z hebben gepropageerd, waar de kennis over het tegendeel voor het oprapen lag........ (over het brengen van fake news gesproken....)


On the Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion, Bush Press Secretary Claims Bush Didn't Lie



On the sixteenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the US government threatens punitive action against International Criminal Court investigators for attempting to look into US war crimes, former George W Bush administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has decided to publish a Twitter thread claiming that Bush did not lie to the world about Iraq.

Here is a transcript of the full thread by Fleischer:
The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed "Bush lied. People died." This accusation itself is a lie. It's time to put it to rest. 
The fact is that President Bush (and I as press secretary) faithfully and accurately reported to the public what the intelligence community concluded. The CIA, along with the intelligence services of Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying. 
After the war, a bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong, particularly why the intelligence community's conclusions about Iraq were so different from what was found on the ground after the war. The group of experts was named the Robb-Silberman commission. It's report was issued in March 2005. It can be found in full here. Its key finding was that that a "major intelligence failure" took place. It also stated that no intelligence service was pressured by the Bush Administration to conclude that Saddam had WMDs. 
Here are the key quotes from their report: 
"Overall Commission Finding: The Intelligence Community's performance in assessing Iraq's pre-war weapons of mass destruction programs was a major intelligence failure. 
Nuclear Weapons Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons program in the 2002 NIE* and other pre-Iraq war intelligence products. This misjudgment stemmed chiefly from the Community's failure to analyze correctly Iraq's reasons for attempting to procure high-strength aluminum tubes. 
Biological Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq's biological weapons program in the 2002 NIE and other pre-war intelligence products. The primary reason for this misjudgment was the Intelligence Community's heavy reliance on a human source--codenamed 'Curveball'--whose information later proved to be unreliable. 
Chemical Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community erred in its 2002 NIE assessment of Iraq's alleged chemical warfare program. The Community's substantial overestimation of Iraq's chemical warfare program was due chiefly to flaws in analysis and the paucity of quality information collected. In the case of Iraq, collectors of intelligence absorbed the prevailing analytic consensus and tended to reject or ignore contrary information. The result was 'tunnel vision' focusing on the Intelligence Community's existing assumptions. The Intelligence Community did not make or change any analytic judgments in response to political pressure to reach a particular conclusion, but the pervasive conventional wisdom that Saddam retained WMD affected the analytic process. The CIA took too long to admit error in Iraq, and its Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center actively discouraged analysts from investigating errors. 
Finally, we closely examined the possibility that intelligence analysts were pressured by policymakers to change their judgments about Iraq's nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs. The analysts who worked Iraqi weapons issues universally agreed that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments." 
That is what the investigators reported, after been given full access to people throughout the intelligence community. Which leads me to conclude that there was a liar and his name was Saddam Hussein. He created an elaborate system of lies to fool western intelligence services and he succeeded. He wanted us to believe he had WMDs. 
The allegaton that "Bush lied. People died" is a liberal myth created to politically target President Bush. I understand the anger that was felt after no WMDs were found. But that doesn't justify calling the President a liar. I can only hope that serious historians and other experts do their homework and resist falling for this myth.
The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed "Bush lied. People died." This accusation itself is a lie. It's time to put it to rest.

Ari Fleischer is lying. It is an absolute proven fact that George W Bush and his administration lied extensively about the degree of certainty in intelligence regarding Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, having ties to Al Qaeda, and seeking nuclear weapons, all of which (along with Vice President Cheney's claim that the US invaders would be "greeted as liberators") proved false. The Bush administration did not know the things they claimed to know with any degree of certainty, but they claimed that they were certain in order to manufacture support for war. Claiming to know something you do not know is lying, especially when it's to advance an ulterior motive.

"Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda," Bush claimed in January 2003. "Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own."

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney claimed in August 2002. "There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."

"The United States knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in December 2002. "Any country on the face of the earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction."

"We are absolutely sure they have continued to develop weapons of mass destruction, and we are sure they have in their possession weapons of mass destruction,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said in December 2002.

"My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources," Powell told the United Nations Security Council in his infamous Iraq presentation in February 2003. "These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence."

"People will continue to debate this issue, but there is no doubt in my mind," Powell said in the same presentation. "These illicit procurement efforts show that Saddam Hussein is very much focused on putting in place the key missing piece from his nuclear weapons program, the ability to produce fissile material."

Powell was not nearly as certain as he claimed to be. None of them were. Facts revealed after the invasion prove that for all their public claims of complete and total certainty that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, was aiding and abetting Al Qaida, and was developing nuclear weapons, behind the veil of government secrecy there was nothing like certainty at all.



For starters, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was cited in Powell's presentation and who Fleischer refers to by the code name "Curveball" in the above thread, was known to have been lying about bioweapons long before the invasion. Despite the confident assertions made by the Bush administration about Janabi's claims to the public, no American personnel were present when he made those claims, and he told the Guardianin 2011 that the BND (the German intelligence agency who interrogated him) had known he was lying all along.

"The BND [German intelligence] knew in 2000 that I was lying after they talked to my former boss, Dr Bassil Latif, who told them there were no mobile bioweapons factories," Janabi said. "For 18 months after that they left me alone because they knew I was telling lies even though I never admitted it.
Believe me, back then, I thought the whole thing was over for me. Then all of a sudden [in the run up to the 2003 invasion] they came back to me and started asking for more details about what I had told them. I still don't know why the BND then passed on my information to the CIA and it ended up in Powell's speech."

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was Powell's chief of staff and helped him prepare his UN presentation on Iraq. When asked on MSNBC if he believed he was lied to about Janabi following the 2011 revelation, Wilkerson told Cenk Uygur that "I cannot come to any other conclusion, especially when I have discovered that no US personnel were present when Curveball was interrogated by the BND, the German intelligence service. That we accepted that, that we even had a head of the European division for the CIA, Tyler Drumheller, who at the last minute during Powell's preparation, during my preparation of the secretary, had told both Tenet and McLaughlin that Curveball might not be reliable. That information was never relayed to the Secretary of State, or to me. I have some serious doubts about it now. I think there was some manipulation of this material, and there was some outright lying."

When asked by Uygur who he thought lied to him, Wilkerson said one of WINPAC's two WMD experts at the time may have been answering directly to Dick Cheney's office.


declassified report from 2002 titled Iraq: Status of WMD Programs reveals that while the Bush administration was making its claims of absolute certainty regarding the dangers posed by the Iraqi government, behind the scenes it was damn near the opposite. Some choice excerpts:

Our assessments rely heavily on analytic assumptions and judgment rather than hard evidence. 
The evidentiary base is particularly sparse for Iraqi nuclear programs.”

We range from 0% to about 75% knowledge on various aspects of their program."

"Our knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based largely—perhaps 90%—on analysis of imprecise intelligence.”

"We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi facilities that produce, test, fill, or store biological weapons.”

Our knowledge of what biological weapons the Iraqis are able to produce is nearly complete. Our knowledge of how and where they are produced is nearly 90% incomplete.”

We do not know the status of enrichment capabilities. We do not know with confidence the location of any nuclear-weapon-related facilities.”

Please take a look at this material as to what we don’t know about WMD. It is big.” (That one was from Rumsfeld.)

We don’t know with any precision how much we don’t know.”

This is not the language of certainty. Yet certainty was presented to the public to manufacture support for a war which murdered a million Iraqis.



The 2002 Downing Street memo, made public in 2005, reveals a secret meeting between senior officials of the British government, intelligence and defense agencies discussing what they knew about America's plans for war. The text of the document contains an assertion by the head of MI6 that Bush had already determined that the invasion of Iraq would take place, and it was only a matter of fixing bits of intelligence around a narrative to make the case.

"Military action was now seen as inevitable," the document reads. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

"It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided," the document quotes Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as saying. "But the case was thin."


In a 2008 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, attorney and author Vincent Bugliosi pointed out that the fact that Bush lied about Iraq could be proven by the difference between the classified 2002 National Intelligence Estimate and its declassified white paper which was made available to the public. The classified version contained dissents from the consensus and language which made it clear that the reader was reading assessments and opinions by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, whereas the unclassified version saw these things deleted, presenting the assessments as absolute fact.

"The evidence that he lied about weapons of mass destruction, by the way, which is not the basis for this book, are right in front of me," Bugliosi said. "I have it right here. Here is the evidence. This document here is the National Intelligence Estimate. I didn't name it before. I talked about a classified report. This is it right here. October 1st, 2002, classified NIE report. It is called Iraq's Continuing Programs of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In this document right here, the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies use words like this, 'we assess that' or 'we judge that' Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. This document here is the white paper that was given to you folks here in Congress and the American people. And the words 'we assess that' or 'we judge that' were removed, meaning that you folks here heard a fact, and in fact, it was only an opinion.

"Number two, on nuclear weapons, this document right here, the classified report has several important dissents. This document right here, the white paper that you folks were given and the American people, all of those dissents were deleted."

Over and over and over again we saw the same thing: uncertainty presented as certainty. Guesses presented as fact. Opinions presented as proof. That's a lie. Bush lied. We know this with as much certainty as his administration was pretending to have in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. There was a pre-existing agenda to invade Iraq, and justifications were advanced to provide an excuse for that invasion with such extreme aggression that now-National Security Advisor John Bolton literally threatened to murder an international official's children for making diplomacy work with Saddam.

Here are a few more courtesy of Vox:

In October 2002, Bush said that Saddam Hussein had a “massive stockpile” of biological weapons. But as CIA Director George Tenet noted in early 2004, the CIA had informed policymakers it had “no specific information on the types or quantities of weapons agent or stockpiles at Baghdad’s disposal.” The “massive stockpile” was just literally made up.

In December 2002, Bush declared, “We do not know whether or not [Iraq] has a nuclear weapon.” That was not what the National Intelligence Estimate said. As Tenet would later testify, “We said that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapon and probably would have been unable to make one until 2007 to 2009.” Bush did know whether or not Iraq had a nuclear weapon — and lied and said he didn’t know to hype the threat.

On CNN in September 2002, Condoleezza Rice claimed that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs.” This was precisely the opposite of what nuclear experts at the Energy Department were saying; they argue that not only was it very possible the tubes were for nonnuclear purposes but that it was very likely they were too. Even more dire assessments about the tubes from other agencies were exaggerated by administration officials — and in any case, the claim that they’re “only really suited” for nuclear weapons is just false.

On numerous occasions, Dick Cheney cited a report that 9/11 conspirator Mohammed Atta had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer. He said this after the CIA and FBI concluded that this meeting never took place.

More generally on the question of Iraq and al-Qaeda, on September 18, 2001, Rice received a memo summarizing intelligence on the relationship, which concluded there was little evidence of links. Nonetheless Bush continued to claim that Hussein was “a threat because he’s dealing with al-Qaeda” more than a year later. 

In August 2002, Dick Cheney declared, “Simply stated, there’s no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” But as Corn notes, at that time there was “no confirmed intelligence at this point establishing that Saddam had revived a major WMD operation.” Gen. Anthony Zinni, who had heard the same intelligence and attended Cheney’s speech, would later say in a documentary, “It was a total shock. I couldn’t believe the vice president was saying this, you know? In doing work with the CIA on Iraq WMD, through all the briefings I heard at Langley, I never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program.”


In 2007 General Wesley Clark told Democracy Now that he'd actually been informed of the decision to invade Iraq immediately after 9/11, while the crosshairs were turning on Afghanistan and well before the public narrative was being amped up in demand of an invasion of Iraq. His comments read as follows:
About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. 
He said, "Sir, you've got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you're too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We're going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail." 
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"

Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. If you've been following the behaviors of the US war machine, Iraq won't be the only painfully familiar name on that list.




It remains important to learn what we’ve attacked and where. How widespread?
In addition to military targets, I hope we targeted Assad’s palace in Damascus. Leave him alive but destroy his prestige. Leave him without a home, as Assad has left millions of Syrians w/o theirs.


“In the last few months of 2018, Iran officially entered a deep recession.” Time to step up the sanctions... https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-official-figures-alarming-unemployment-2019/29698225.html 


Iran's Official Figures Indicate Alarming Unemployment Rate Later This Year

The official unemployment rate has reached 27 percent among young Iranians and over 40 percent among university graduates, says Omid Ali Parsai, chairman of the Iranian Statistical Center.
en.radiofarda.com






Ari Fleischer is a liar. He was in the thick of the Bush administration's campaign to sell the Iraq war to the American public, and to this day he continues trying to sell them on new acts of depraved US interventionism. He's just as much a warmongering neocon inside as he was when he was behind a podium defending Bush's wars in the press room, so it's no wonder he wants to preserve the image of his insatiable death cult. Fleischer wants to preserve his legacy, yes, but he also wants to preserve support for the war machine whose feet he worships at, hence his ham-fisted attempt at narrative manipulation regarding the unforgivable Iraq invasion.

The responses to Fleischer's Twitter thread have been overwhelmingly negative, though, so it doesn't look like anyone's buying it. In our new political landscape, where the image of George W Bush is being continually rehabilitated, that gives me a bit of hope.

These monsters lied to start a war which snuffed out a million human lives and destabilized an entire region, and they did it right in front of our faces. The fact that they're now trying to lie about the thing we all watched them do is as insulting as it is infuriating. Never let them pull the wool over your eyes, and never forget what they did. Forgiveness is highly overrated.


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Caitlin Johnstone | March 20, 2019 at 3:25 pm | Tags: Ari Fleisherbushgeorge w bushinvasioniraqliednewsPoliticswar | Categories: ArticleNews | URL: https://wp.me/p9tj6M-1Bl

* NIE: National Intelligence Estimate
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