Rumsfeld Began Iraq Attack Plans on 9/11, whether Saddam or not

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

re-post from last year
----------------------------


Rumsfeld Began Iraq Attack Plans on 9/11,
Whether Saddam Was Involved Or Not

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

(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.

At 9:53 a.m., just 15 minutes after the hijacked plane had hit the Pentagon, and while Rumsfeld was still outside helping with the injured, the National Security Agency, which monitors communications worldwide, intercepted a phone call from one of Osama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan to a phone number in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

The caller said he had "heard good news" and that another target was still to come; an indication he knew another airliner, the one that eventually crashed in Pennsylvania, was at that very moment zeroing in on Washington.

...more....

[catmandu57]

1. They were making plans to invade Iraq

from the moment poppy got his ass kicked in 92. Everyone who voted for the moron* in 2000 knew that this would happen, and everyone who voted against it knew the same.

[sasquatch]

2. Why am I not surprised

We invade a country that isn't a threat to anybody and steal there natrual resorces. All republicans are facist pigs that will burn in hell when they die.