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In reply to the discussion: MSNBC: "A hoax. That's what it was.": New evidence that Bush scammed the nation into war. [View all]Botany
(70,447 posts)1) Dick Cheney had maps of Iraqi oil fields on his desk in Feb. and March 2001 as he was
meeting w/ his "energy task force."
He obtained one Pentagon document, dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts," which includes a map of potential areas for exploration.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-592330.html
2) The White House Iraq Group and the Pentagon's "Office of Special Plans" worked
24/7 to find reason to have a war w/Iraq
3) The weapons inspectors found nothing and said as much but bush/Cheney/Rummy had them removed from
Iraq even after Saddam had told them they could go anyplace and at anytime.
4) Powell's UN anthrax act .... even after we knew the capital hill anthrax came from Ft. Detrick, MD
5) In Dec. 2000 bush, Cheney, & Rummy had a lets plan a stimulated war w/ Iraq meeting in the Pentagon