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kpete

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Sat Jan 7, 2017, 09:31 AM Jan 2017

Saddam Hussein's death warrant signed 'on day one' after 9/11, former CIA analyst reveals

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'We went to Iraq to do all of these things, to find the weapons of mass destruction, to help build a new Iraq, to establish rule of law, give the Iraqi people democracy, and one by one, all of those things just crumbled'


Discussing the first days of the Bush administration on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, (former CIA analyst John) Nixon said: “We had gotten word that they saw Iraq as ‘unfinished business’.

“We never really understood at that point what unfinished business meant, but we knew that they wanted to do something.”

He added: “You know, they had their minds made up from day one. And then after 9/11, that’s when the death warrant for Saddam Hussein was signed.”




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Saddam Hussein's death warrant signed 'on day one' after 9/11, former CIA analyst reveals (Original Post) kpete Jan 2017 OP
How convenient. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2017 #1
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