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In reply to the discussion: On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)16. I still believe the LIHOP (Letting It Happen On Purpose) theory.
Cheney & the rest of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) cabal (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, etc) wanted to "transform the Middle East" by overthrowing Iraq & other ME countries (including Iran) since the group formed in 1997. They wrote 2 letters to President Clinton urging him to invade Iraq. They coordinated Iraq invasion plans with Netanyahu, before GW Bush was elected & the PNAC filled his cabinet.
In 2000 the PNAC wrote a paper, Rebuilding America's Defenses, that described their vision of an "Imperial America" that militarily dominated the world, including overthrowing governments across the Middle East, & noted they would need "some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor" in order to launch their wars in the Middle East.
Then, after they had filled GW Bush's cabinet, they got credible intelligence that just such a "catastrophic and catalyzing event" was on the way ... & they did nothing to stop it, because they needed it to carry out their Iraq invasion plans. On 9/11 they got their "new Pearl Harbor" & the rest is sad history.
LIHOP, Letting It Happen On Purpose, because the PNAC needed exactly an event like this to carry out the Iraq invasion they had been planning for & pushing for since 1997.
There is so much more, I will never forgive our media for ignoring the PNAC while all of this was happening. I wrote about it, tried to get major media interested ... nothing. It's one of the greatest disservices they've ever done to our country.
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On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]
Botany
Sep 2019
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Cheney had the pentagon conducting war games on 9/11/01 and those games simulated ...
Botany
Sep 2019
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And that in the late spring/early summer of 2001 Condi Rice told her friend Willie Brown not ...
Botany
Sep 2019
#15
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Sep 2019
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