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Swede Atlanta

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4. That's what the evidence has shown for over a decade.......
Fri Jul 25, 2014, 09:36 AM
Jul 2014

The PNAC planned the Iraq War well before GWB was President. They even state in their documents that they needed another attack like Pearl Harbor to be able to start their war.

I am not a total conspiracist but I believe it is entirely possible that, once in office and armed with the warning that AQ was committed to doing something on U.S. soil, they intentionally didn't do anything about the warnings. They figured if AQ was successful they would tie this back to Iraq and they could have their war.

Unfortunately for them the direct linkage was back to AQ in Afghanistan so they had to do the "show" war there just to satisfy Congress and the American people. They let that simmer a while and then started fabricating the justification for the Iraq War and beating the drums of war.

Look at who Bush brought into his administration. They were almost all associated in one way or another with the PNAC bunch.

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