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U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes for Using 9/11 as a Justification for Waging War on Iraq

Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:14 By Washington's Blog

U.S. Officials Created a False Link Between Iraq and 9/11

iraq war5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said “my interest is to hit Saddam”.

He also said “Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not.”

And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the statement “judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [that is, Saddam Hussein] at same time”, is the statement “Hard to get a good case.” In other words, top officials knew that there wasn’t a good case that Hussein was behind 9/11, but they wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to justify war with Iraq anyway.

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The high cost of Bush's Iraq gambit

Sunday, 04 January 2009 01:37 By Robert Parry

Bush

Most Americans who have followed the twists and turns of the Iraq War would agree that George W. Bush misled the nation into the conflict with false claims about WMD and Saddam Hussein’s links to al-Qaeda. But it’s less understood that Bush never stopped deceiving the public.

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Loopholes in U.S.-Iraq security pact

Monday, 05 January 2009 14:47 Manjit Singh

U.S. troops in Iraq

Summary
A reinterpretation of the recently signed U.S.-Iraq security pact leaves loopholes in the agreement undermining the very concessions originally negotiated.  U.S. troops will no longer be compelled to vacate Iraqi cities as called for by the Status-of-Forces Agreement (SOFA).  Exposing the deal’s loopholes threatens a rejection by the Iraqi public via the proposed July 2009 national referendum.

Geopoliticalmonitor.com

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