Time to dust this off again: "What I Heard About Iraq"

A great essay....and a spectacular window into that "rewriting history" horseshit Chimpy was trying to pull....

"LRB | Vol. 27 No. 3 dated 3 February 2005 | Eliot Weinberger

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What I Heard about Iraq

Eliot Weinberger


In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq’. I heard him say: ‘The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.’

In February 2001, I heard Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein ‘has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.’

That same month, I heard that a CIA report stated: ‘We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes.’

In July 2001, I heard Condoleezza Rice say: ‘We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.’

On 11 September 2001, six hours after the attacks, I heard that Donald Rumsfeld said that it might be an opportunity to ‘hit’ Iraq. I heard that he said: ‘Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.’

I heard that Condoleezza Rice asked: ‘How do you capitalise on these opportunities?’

I heard that on 17 September the president signed a document marked top secret that directed the Pentagon to begin planning for the invasion and that, some months later, he secretly and illegally diverted $700 million approved by Congress for operations in Afghanistan into preparing for the new battle front.

In February 2002, I heard that an unnamed ‘senior military commander’ said: ‘We are moving military and intelligence personnel and resources out of Afghanistan to get ready for a future war in Iraq.’"

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/wein01_.html

before we act and put these criminals in prison, without a chance for patrol or pardon, for the rest of their lives?

Treason
High treason
Murder
War Crimes
Crimes against humanity
Election fraud
Just plain old fraud
Wholesale theft of government property and resources.
Not to mention all of the Constitutional crimes they have committed.

The thing is, now that it's started unraveling, it's going to be near impossible for the GOP to stop it, much less roll it back up....