
Bush ed il fallimento in Iraq
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, scritto dal reporter investigativo del Newsweek Michael Isikoff e da David Corn, Washington editor del The Nation.• President Bush was driven by a visceral hatred of Saddam Hussein, which he privately demonstrated in expletive-laden tirades against the Iraqi dictator. In May 2002--months before he asked Congress for authority to attack Saddam--Bush bluntly revealed his ultimate game plan in a candid moment with two aides. When told that reporter Helen Thomas was questioning the need to oust Saddam by force, Bush snapped: “Did you tell her I intend to kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the Mideast?” In a meeting with congressional leaders, the President angrily thrust his middle finger inches in front of the face of Senator Tom Daschle to illustrate Saddam’s attitude toward the United States.
• When Bush was first briefed that no WMDs had been found in Iraq, he was totally unfazed and asked few questions. “I’m not sure I’ve spoken to anyone at that level who seemed less inquisitive,” the briefer told the authors.
• After the [Iraq] invasion [in March 2003], Dick Cheney’s aides desperately sifted through raw intelligence nuggets in search of any evidence that would justify the war. On one occasion they sent the WMD hunters in Iraq a satellite photo that they suspected showed a hiding place for WMDs. But it was only an overhead photo of a watering hole for cows.
• Many of the White House’s most dramatic claims about the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction were repeatedly questioned by senior members of the U.S. intelligence community-but these dissents and views were suppressed or ignored by the White House. Admiral Thomas Wilson, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency until May 2002, is quoted in the book as casting doubt on virtually the entire White House case for an invasion of Iraq. “I didn’t really think [Iraq] had a nuclear program,” retired Admiral Wilson told the authors. “I didn’t think [Saddam and Iraq] were an immediate threat on WMD.”
• Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle seriously doubted the case for war--and questioned the top-secret briefings they received directly from Cheney. One senior Republican, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, warned the President in a September 2002 meeting that Bush would be stuck in a “quagmire” if he invaded Iraq. But Armey and others were afraid for political reasons to challenge the White House on the prewar intelligence. Un nuovo sondaggio della CNN mostra come i Repubblicani siano già in difficoltà per le imminenti elezioni di novembre.

Iraq ed al Qaeda. Solo bugie
Un nuovo rapporto della Commissione intelligence del Senato americano, che raccoglie due anni d'analisi sulle modalità con cui l'amministrazione Bush decise la guerra all'Iraq, smonta in via definitiva il castello accusatorio usato dalla Casa Bianca per giustificare l'intervento.
Saddam Hussein non aveva alcuna fiducia in Al Qaeda e considerava gli estremisti islamici come minacce al suo stesso regime, rifiutando tutte le richieste di aiuto materiale e operativo pervenutegli.«Si tratta di una prova schiacciante dei tentativi ingannevoli, fuorvianti e mistificatori di manipolare le informazioni da parte dell'amministrazione Bush-Cheney.
Ancora il 21 agosto scorso il presidente Bush ha sostenuto l'esistenza di un legame tra Saddam e Zarqawi»
-Carl Levin, Senatore democratico
"Saddam wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there. He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about."
Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq — even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.

Attentato alle Twin Towers- 2749 morti ufficiali nelle due torri
- 343 morti tra i Vigili del Fuoco
- 3000 morti tra i soldati inviati in Medioriente
- 3000 morti/mese in Iraq