Neocons let Bin-Laden roam free so War on Terror could be used for Regime Change
by Mercutio
Wed May 07, 2008 at 08:54:05 PM PDT
So, this is pretty much what many of us suspected all along, but Gareth Porter at the Asian Times does a wonderful job of pulling it all together. The real bombshell here is that
they deliberately chose to ignore Bin-Laden in favor of establishing new regimes: Feith's book, War and Decision, released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W Bush on September 30, 2001, calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network but on the aim of establishing "new regimes" in a series of states by "aiding local peoples to rid themselves of terrorists and to free themselves of regimes that support terrorism".
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When this writer asked Feith after a recent public appearance which countries' names were deleted from the documents, he cited security reasons for the deletion. But when he was asked which of the six regimes on the Clark list were included in the Rumsfeld paper, he replied, "All of them."
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Bush had not approved the explicit aim of regime change in Iran, Syria and four other countries proposed by Rumsfeld. Thus Rumsfeld adopted the aggressive military plan targeting multiple regimes in the Middle East for regime change even though it was not White House policy.
Apparently there ARE some things too stupid for Bush...
more at:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JE07Ak01.htmlhttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/7/23545/68621/60/484050