On 5 Sep 2002 at 22:02, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> ----- 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.sht
> > ml
> >
> > (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.
>
I'll bet that plans were simultaneously being drawn up to strike all
possible perps; such a strategy would be timely and prudent. Once the
actual perp is discerned, the plan is then ready-made, whoever the perp
turns out to be.
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