WHY CHENEY REALLY TOOK US TO WAR-The past 11 years explained?

[kpete]

The past 11 years explained?
By Thoreau

There’s a lot to digest in this summary of a forthcoming Philip Zelikow article, and I think I’d like to read the original article before I say too much. However, this is worth pointing to:

Bush aide blasts torture
Philip Zelikow tried to warn Bush on interrogations. Now he's penned an authoritative article on how he was ignored

One traumatic experienced often overlooked — overlooked because it appeared in Stephen Hayes’s stenographic biography of Dick Cheney — was that the Vice-President’s daughter was (falsely, it turns out) told that her house with her children in it had tested positive for anthrax. Similarly, Cheney and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice were told that they and others had been exposed to an extremely lethal toxin in a particular area of the White House — and might soon die as a result. “The alarms did not stop and they too were not abstract … The pressure on Bush and his senior advisers was so direct because so much of the response had to be invented and improvised,” the article reads.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/10/bush_aide_blasts_torture/

........... It’s fascinating that they learned NOTHING from false alarms. Instead they just kept telling us to be afraid. OTOH, maybe they saw what the false alarm did to them, and decided that they’d like the same to happen to us.
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2012/04/10/14521

[Lasher]

1. Neither Bush nor Cheney needed any encouragement.

From before day one, both of them wanted to invade Iraq. It's logical to suspect that they helped perpetrate these very acts of deceit to promote their war.

[CJCRANE]

2. Seems like

a limited hangout and an attempt at rewriting history.