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Yaphe's answer is unhesitant: ''Ahmad Chalabi.'' But it went further than that: ''The Pentagon didn't want to touch anything connected to the Department of State.'' None of the senior American officials involved in the Future of Iraq Project were taken on board by the Pentagon's planners...

Through such efforts, Chalabi grew even closer to those planning the war and what would follow. To the war planners, the Iraqi National Congress became not simply an Iraqi exile group of which Chalabi was a leader, but a kind of government-in-waiting with Chalabi at its head. The Pentagon's plan...

In the mid-90's, Chalabi attended conferences on a post-Hussein Iraq organized by Perle and sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute. There he met a group of neoconservative and conservative intellectuals who had served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush...

It would be tough for Iraqis to accept us as liberators and not as oil thieves.. "But on the ground, the looting and the violence went on and on, and for the most part American forces largely did nothing. Or rather, they did only one thing -- station troops to protect the Iraqi Oil...

A month ago an Iraqi citizen approached some U.S. soldiers, offering to sell a shoulder-held SA-7 surface-to-air missile, the kind that can be use to shoot down commercial airliners. When the soldiers offered the man $250, he drove back with a truckload of missiles and collected a payment of...

Letter to Codolleezza Rice by members of Committee on government Reform, Committee on Energy and Commerce Congress of the United States, House of Representatives 1. As of October 19. 2003, Halliburton had imported 61,304,091 gallons of gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq. Halliburton...

Thx for the heads up.

On the funny side..PRESIDENTIAL CONFESSIONS from Yahoo setting new records? >First, I was not elected. I attacked and took over two countries. I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury. I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!). I...

What? You can't be serious! Who's morale? yours? Our troops already know how low their morale is and I doubt they are reading ET chitchat They are suffering enough. If you are getting depressed and you are a US citizen like most of us here, then GREAT!!!!! I do hope you get totally...

Huh? Man, what ever you smoke better stop! For starters, where do you see any mention for, or against Israel in my post? Where do you see rooting for the stock market to go down? Where do you see me rooting for soldiers to die? I've been asking to bring them back/have been against...

Wait a minute! Wasn't the war supposed to be over May 1st 2003? Chief in thief declared it so. Aircraft carrier fighter flying, media hoorays and all? Sad times indeed. War is quickly over, now it's easy to sign executive orders such as the following: Executive order 13302, May 22nd...

http://www.moveon.org/misleader/3lies-ad.pdf ......On the eve of battle, President Bush said war was required because of Saddam Hussein's connection to "... the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001" Now Bush admits "we had no evidence" of such connection" Dick Chenney...

Rumsfeld Says 2.3 Trillion Dollars Missing Is it part of our national debt? Amortized as part of yearly deficits or just get swept in an unreportable account somewhere.? If anyone knows please post. Tax payers have to pay for this to the tune of $8000 per person. Rumsfeld...

hmmm ..qurious.. why did you delete your whole previous post? bdixon619 Senior Member Registered: Aug 2002 Posts: 432 10-24-03 06:22 PM A bad idea... to pose this as a question for the Economics forum, this is an ethics question. Each one of us must bear part of the burden for...

huh???? Where do you see a call about dismantling the military? Do you know if this money are part of our govt's figures on national debt? deficits? is it swept under the rag? Maybe it does belong in the Economics Forum. This is a huge amount of money "mishandled" and it DOES effect all...

THE WAR ON WASTE - Rumsfeld Says 2.3 Trillion Dollars Missing CBS News ^ | January 29, 2002 | By Vince Gonzales THE WAR ON WASTE Defense Department Cannot Account For 25% Of Funds — $2.3 Trillion On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign...

Scientist, you missed the point...sometimes being sarcastic, cynical works ok... We are on the same side...:)

One of the countless. 24 Mar 2003 02:25 Huge Iraqi chemical arms factory found-reports excerpts, "Fox News and the Jerusalem Post, which had a reporter traveling with the U.S. forces, cited unidentified Pentagon officials as saying the facility was seized by the First Brigade of the...

Maverick74, Thank you for contributing to this thread. The answer to your question is in your own post. For you, apparently, the purpose of this thread is to come in and comment, not on the content but on format or thread placement, references, etc... Great! isn't this what chitchat is...

Nicely put and more close to the truth than most. Time for wake up call...Read on.. An Open Letter to America: It's Time to Take Back Our Country _________________________________ by John & Elaine Mellencamp Published on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 by CommonDreams.org As the...