MORE Evidence that Iraq War Plan Started on 9/11 (TWN)

[kpete]

More Evidence that Iraq War Plan Started on 9/11
TWN has just been sent some very interesting material posted at OutragedModerates.org.

A blogger's FOIA request has yielded Steven Cambone's handwritten notes of Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld's instructions to General Myers at 2:40 pm on September 11, 2001.

Some of the lines are fascinating:

"Go massive. . .Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

Judge whether hit S.H. (Saddam Hussein) @ same time -- Not only UBL (Osama bin Laden)

Hard to get a good case

Need to move swiftly

This material first surfaced on CBS News' September 4, 2002 report, "Plans for Iraq Attack Began on 9/11" -- as Thad Anderson of Outraged Moderates reports -- but is not referenced in the 9/11 Commission Report or other accounts of 9/11 post-attack planning.

http://www.outragedmoderates.org/2006/02/dod-staffers-notes-from-911-obtained.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

Here is one of the key pages from Steven Cambone's notes that was not revealed in its entirety on the CBS report

http://www.outragedmoderates.org/images/cambone_notes_9-11-01_2.40PM.pdf

-- and the full package of notes can be seen here.
http://flickr.com/photos/66726692@N00/sets/72057594065491946/

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001256.php

[Cary]

1. Is there anyone who might care about this. . .

who doesn't know it already?

[rodeodance]

3. nobody has a few years now--not enough to DO anything constructive

about it anyway.

[TheGunslinger]

2. "Go massive. . .Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

Wasn't that in Plan of Attack?

[rodeodance]

4. it was basically ignored cause this was to be part of "Phase II"--and we

see where that phase is. Limping along With Sen. Roberts as Chair!!

[bigtree]

5. these are cool. Cambone is Rumsfeld's right hand man.

[KoKo]

6. I guess there's nothing that can be done with this. No one left who isn't

part of the BFEE to take this to...:-( Sad isn't it..

[kpete]

7. Do NOT give up

Truth is going to win in the end. It has to.

[MellowOne]

8. My thought as well

If citizens continue seeking truth, it will eventually all come to light.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. A few more dots that need to be connected

Who Is Osama? Where Did He Come From? How Did He Escape? What About Those Anthrax Attacks?

A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Ask

By WERTHER

The events of September 11, 2001 evoke painful memories, tinged with a powerful nostalgia for the way of life before it happened. The immediate tragedy caused a disorientation sufficient to distort the critical faculties in the direction of retrospectively predictable responses: bureaucratic adaptation, opportunism, profiteering, kitsch sentiment, and mindless sloganeering.

SNIP

While initially received as definitive by a rapturous official press, the 9/11 Report has been overtaken by reality, not only because of unsatisfying content--like all "independent" government reports, it is fundamentally an apology and a coverup masquerading as an exposé--but because we now know more: more about the feckless invasion of Iraq, more about the occupation of Afghanistan and the purported hunt for Osama bin Laden, more about the post-9/11 stampede to repeal elements of the Bill of Rights, more about the rush to create the Department of Homeland Security, an agency to "prevent another 9/11," which, in retrospect, is plainly about cronyism, contracts, and Congressional boodle.

Many of the amateur sleuths of the 9/11 mystery have based their investigations on microscopic forensics regarding the publicly released video footage, or speculations into the physics of impacting aircraft or collapsing buildings. But staring too closely at the recorded traces of subatomic phenomena involved in a one-time event can deceive us into finding the answer we are looking for, as Professor Heisenberg once postulated. Over 40 years on, the Magic Bullet is still the Magic Bullet: improbable, yes, but not outside the realm of the possible.

But there is surprisingly little discussion of the basic higher-order political factors surrounding 9/11, factors that do not require knowledge of the melting point of girder steel or the unknowable piloting abilities of the presumed perpetrators. Let us proceed, then, in a spirit of detached scientific inquiry, to ask questions the 9/11 Commission was unprepared to ask.

http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02182006.html