----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Marshall" <jmarshal@OL.COM.AU>
To: <CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Bush - Going To War
> "Robert A. Kezelis" wrote:
>
> > today's editorial page of the NYT has a nice descrption of Mr. Cheney's
> > Haliburton history (I LOVE the line, "I was in the private sector giving
> > thousands of people jobs" when actually, he fired 10,000 after a merger
with
> > Dresser.)
> > Am I too cynical in thinking that between the Crooked W's wish for
pleasing
> > daddy and Cheney's prior bizniz dealings with Saddam, that this war is
> > really about spin and PR?
> > Where is one concrete connection between 9/11 and Iraq? Iran's religious
> > leaders, Saudi Arabia's princely bankers and religious teachers,
Pakistan's
> > brainwashing schools, and Afganistan's Taliban, sure. But nothing about
> > Iraq.
>
> Who needs evidence?
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml
>
> (CBS) CBS News has learned that barely
> five hours after American Airlines Flight 77
> plowed into the Pentagon, Defense
> Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling
> his aides to come up with plans for striking
> Iraq - even though there was no evidence
> linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.
>
> That's according to notes taken by aides
> who were with Rumsfeld in the National
> Military Command Center on Sept. 11 -
> notes that show exactly where the road
> toward war with Iraq began, reports CBS
> News National Security Correspondent
> David Martin.
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