Unger: The Iraq War was a Conspiracy

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Unger: The Iraq War was a Conspiracy
Posted by laststeamtrain on Mon Mar-24-08 03:58 AM




Craig Unger's email, part of an interchange on a private discussion group, is reprinted here with permission:

...the point is, the neocons had deliberately gamed the system. As their policy papers show, they knew they wanted to start the war long before the administration took office and in order to do so they knew they had to control intelligence. That's why Wolfowitz, Perle, and Eliot Abrams began making semi-secret trips to Austin as early as 1998 to convince Bush that an invasion was necessary. That's why, in December 2000, they tried to put Wolfowitz in as head of the CIA. And that's why, when that didn't work, they moved him to the Pentagon where he oversaw the creation of the Office of Special Plans which was in charge of putting out phony intelligence.

Likewise, Cheney put John Bolton in at State to keep an eye on Colin Powell and to make sure that State Department analysts at INR( who had repeatedly discovered the errors in the phony neocon intelligence) were kept out of all the key meetings. As a result, Colin Powell made his presentation to the UN based on intel that came from the neocons in Cheney's office and the Pentagon--not the professionals at Langley and at (the State Department's intelligence analysis branch,) INR.

In other words, we went to war not because of intelligence failures, as X seems to think, but because of intelligence successes--successful black propaganda operations, successful disinformation operations--that were deliberately designed to mislead the American people.

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1. Thanks, SLaD

We are in Iraq as a result of lies. Period.

In other words, we went to war not because of intelligence failures, as X seems to think, but because of intelligence successes--successful black propaganda operations, successful disinformation operations--that were deliberately designed to mislead the American people.

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2. Thanks for posting this.

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4. John Bolton probably used NSA wiretaps to spy on Colin Powell

This was reported in the UK, but bizarrely, has not been reported in the US. If a US source would report this, it would put an entirely different spin on the current debate about FISA amendments and NSA wiretapping -- namely, that the neocons were using the NSA for political spying.