3 Wks After 9/11-Forget about it, guys, you are not going to Afghanistan, you are going to Iraq.

Bush planning to invade Iraq within 3 weeks of 9-11
by teacherken
Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 07:00:47 PM PST

This diary is based on a public statement by someone in a position to know.

Today my students had a guest speaker. His name is Andrew Duck, he is one of our Fighting Dems, he was the Democratic candidate in the 6th CD in Maryland (versus Roscoe Bartlett) last cycle and he is running again. Not only did I already know Andrew, but one of his nephews is one of my students, so it was a natural to invite him to address my students, and for about 100 minutes this morning he talked about his life, his military service, his decision to leave the military, and why he is running for Congress.

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Andrew entered the military as a married man of 19 because it was the one way he could get health care without worrying about pre-existing conditions. He started as a private, served, left, came back in, and retired as an officer. He was trained in intelligence, including Korean (to listen to the communications of the North Koreans). At the time of 9-11 he was working with a company that had Arab linguists. They immediately sat down to figure out what they might have to do to be effective against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: there were issues of concentrating on specific dialects, there were logistical issues - that should give a sense.

Within a couple of weeks he had put together a plan and began passing it up the chain of command. And what came back? Forget about it, guys, you are not going to Afghanistan, you are going to Iraq.

This rejection was, as Andrew notes, 3 weeks after 9-11. An intelligence asset that would have been useful against the "Arabs" in Afghanistan was not devoted to that theater, but instead was already been targeted for the Invasion of Iraq.

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Only three weeks after 9-11, and linguistic and intelligence resources that could have been useful in Afghanistan were already targeted for Iraq.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/14/21313/257

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