New Book Claims White House Forged Documents To Promote Saddam-al Qaeda Link
Ron Suskind’s new book, The Way of the World, makes the claim that the White House ordered CIA head George Tenet to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq’s intelligence to Saddam Hussein, and backdated it before 9/11. Suskind also says BushCo knew there were no WMD’s, and knew it with enough time to have stopped the invasion of Iraq.
“The White House had concocted a fake letter from (Iraqi intelligence chief Tahir Jalil) Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.”
The Iraqi intelligence chief was paid $5 million, sent to live in Jordan after he showed there were no WMD’s, and the US indicated that he was held captive to hide the fact that we went to war under false pretenses.
Suskind, who won Pulitzer during his years with the Wall Street Journal, also writes that Cheney’s used a strategy he developed a a result of the Watergate fiasco in the Nixon White House of keeping Bush suffienciently unware of what was going on so as to have deniability.
“They key was a signaling system, where the president made his wishes broadly known to a sufficiently powerful deputy who could take it from there. If an investigation ensued, or a foreign leader cried foul, the president could shrug. This was never something he’d authorized. The whole point of Cheney’s model is to make a president less accountable for his action. Cheney’s view is that accountability – a bedrock feature of representative democracy – is not, in every case, a virtue.”
Also noteworthy is this frightening, but unexplained event that occurred during preparation of the book:
Suskind writes in the acknowledgments that his research assistant, Greg Jackson, “was sent to New York on a project for the book” in September 2007 and was “detained by federal agents in Manhattan. He was interrogated and his notes were confiscated, violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights.” The author provides no further detail.
“Cheney’s view is that accountability – a bedrock feature of representative democracy – is not, in every case, a virtue.”
People like Cheney despise democracy, and tolerate American values only in so far as such do not interfere with the exercise of executive power.
That Suskind’s research assistant would be detained and interrogated hardly comes as a surprise. The surprise is that Mr. Jackson has not been tortured or murdered or held for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.
“The author provides no further detail.”
And, doubtless, has been served a “National Security Letter,” so anything he might say could be used as an excuse to send him to prison.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
As Gomer Pyle would say:
“Suprise, Suprise, Suprise!”
August 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Yet another reason both Bush and Cheney avoid testifying under oath like the plague.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Boogieman ,
That’s a good point> I almost forgot about that.
Remember, Bush could’t even testify alone without Cheney…. And the media gave his a pass on it.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Bush lied about the War? So what! As horrible as Dubya is, what’s the point anymore? He wasn’t impeached. Obama, if he wins, won’t go after him. How could he anyway since Dubya corrupted the DOJ. I hope feels good about himself after he leaves office. Runs the country into the ground, fails at everything he tries, and history will look back and see him differently? Makes me wanna fucking puke…
August 5th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
One reads this book and that which slowly leak the sewage of a White House devoted to Imperial power while Nancy and the Demos won’t let impeachment be voted on. Impeachment…which could enable testimony to get at the truth is somehow seen as anti-productive. How badly Pres Bush and VP Cheney damaged the constitution and our rule of law (supposedly motivated by saving Christians from the Islamic hordes) is still a matter of conjecture as our great leaders hide behind executive privilege.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Bring on Vincent Bugliosi !
August 5th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I’m afraid this administration won’t be held accountable for all their crimes. The American people will be subjected to another “let’s move on” speech by the next president and everything will be swept under the rug. Disgusting.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Yes, Vincent Bugliosi is a fool who needs to get more media attention so his absolutely asinine, idiotic, bizarre and murderous claims can be exposed.
It remains the pinnacle of stupidity at this point for any educated person, any rational person or any coherent person to still spout the nonsense of
“Bush knew there were no wmd’s in Irak…”
President Bush knew then and knows today that there most assuredly ARE and HAVE BEEN wmd’s in Irak, only the more ignorant people might be convinced of the juggernaut of a lie “no wmd’s in Irak”
So its amusing the left takes the chance on such a monumental lie about “no wmd’s” but maybe they are betting the ignorant and gullible people will keep refusing to know the facts.
Congress will not seek impeachment because they know nothing wrong took place by the Bush Whitehouse, the war was clearly needed and proper, thank GOD that Bush and Cheney accomplished the 2 war fronts
How can people who have access to the internet be so fully ignorant of the facts in regards to the necessity of the Irak war? How can so many people be so deluded and in full error as to claim the war was somehow not the best possible choice?
I want to know who supports the Bugliosi fool
August 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
They didn’t let 9/11 get in the way of their pre 9/11 plans
They wanted to occupy Iraq from the mid 90s, EVEN as Bush was campaigning on ‘No nation building’
The neo con think tank….The Project for the New American Century stated in the mid 90s, that they wanted to remake the Middle East.
It was founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan.
Other members include; Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Jeb Bush, Charles Krauthammer, John Bolton and Daniel Pipes.,
I don’t know if W even knew about it.
They wrote a letter to Bill Clinton asking him to attack Iraq in 1998.
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They were even clear that they could fight multiple wars in different theaters at the same time with few troops.
( Although they are mostly ALL chickenhawks, who never fought anywhere.)
From their paper;
Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century (2000):
pp 51
“Futher,the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”
9/11 was the excuse they were waiting for.
That’s why Immediately on 9/11, they started trying to blame Iraq. It was their pre 9/11 plan.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Oh yeah,
“I want to know who supports the Bugliosi fool”
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
~Clarence Darrow
So….I DO!!
August 5th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Bradley it’s sheer irrationality how these people claim with total certitude and sincerity that Bush is a liar.
These people’s demented politics are a religion to them.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
LeftyNonpatriot:
Real patriots would never have to assert that aspect about themselves.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
“Real patriots would never have to assert that aspect about themselves.”
A real patriot wouldn’t call someone un-American for exercising free speech.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
RC said~
“People like Cheney despise democracy, and tolerate American values only in so far as such do not interfere with the exercise of executive power.”
I agree with you. See my comment on the thread regarding his absence at the RNC.
TDro said~
“I’m afraid this administration won’t be held accountable for all their crimes. The American people will be subjected to another “let’s move on” speech by the next president and everything will be swept under the rug. Disgusting.”
Amen, Brother. Amen.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
You’ll have to explain your logic on that one, because it makes no logical sense.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
My 6.29 comment was directed at RC.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
TDro said~
“I’m afraid this administration won’t be held accountable for all their crimes.”
…………………………………….
It’s like a parent who knows their child is engaging in risky behavior, but just looks the other way because it’s too terrible and painful.
But the media is also complicit. Being duped by your government when you are most vulnerable and scared, doesn’t sell newspapers OR bring in ratings.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
What is noteworthy about this allegation is the fact that this is a pre-9-11 charge. This event takes another step toward the importance of finding “The Bush Fly.” Linking Saddam to Osama at this time indicates there was foresight and coordination, but neither one of these men were the Bush Fly. To make the case for war, they had to be linked. The Bush Fly was political, domestic, and a pest too small to eliminate. Campaign finance changed and the missile defense funding paradigm changed. With this pre-9-11 admission, the story grows more significant. Scott McClellan’s charges are credible. Will America tell the story or try to find the fly? The buzz is growing.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I was talking to someone the other day who was visiting from another country. He thought it was very bizarre that Americans impeached Bill Clinton for having consentual sex while in office and then lying about it.
On the other hand, we have a president who spies on his own people, exposes CIA agents, declares war on a sovreign nation causing death a destruction, tortures and allows poisonous toys to be sold in the U.S., and we give him a pass.
He doesn’t understand our logic, and I admit I agree with him.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Of course that person would think it was odd to impeach Clinton for a blow job (Clinton never admited to having sex with her) and fucking her with a cigar.
He was impeached for denying Paula Jones her right to a fair trial by committing perjury and having other people comitt perjury.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
That’s what I have been saying from the beginning ~
Impeached over a blow-job, but not over all the shit Bush did!?!?
August 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Danielle: You think it was insignificant that Clinton.. the most powerful man in the US govt and one whose office bestows on him a great responsiblity to ensure the intigrity of our constitutional system .. was acting in a way to prevent a woman who was the victim of his sexual harassment to have a fair trial?
It was Clinton’s own Sexual Harasssment legislation that allowed the plantiff to use any on-going sexual harassment activity as evidence in their case.
I find it outrageous that anyone would defend what he did.
I find it depressing that so many people here get their panties in a bunch over non-citizen terrorists not having access to courts.. but dont give a shit that the president was actively trying to destroy an american citizen her rights to redress wrongdoing against her in american courts.
August 5th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Poor Vince…he is so muddled that he’s impressed with impeachment for sexual sins, but believes everyone else is nuts to try to get to the truth of the White House taking us to war. For all it counts, at least Clinton was tried…will Bush/Cheney ever be? Let’s pray that when the truth comes out that all the “evidence” of this administration’s misdeeds turn out to be malicious rumors…however sadly I don’t think the good Lord will answer that one!
August 5th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Let’s list of few of this administrations offenses:
1. Spying on its own citizens since January, 2001, while claiming they are fighting the “war on terror”, but unable to prevent 9/11.
2. Exposing a cia agents identity, thereby compromising national security
3. Invading a sovreign nation causing the deaths of over 4000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children simply so he can steal their oil.
4. Torturing detainees to the point of near death and in some cases death itself.
I find it outrageous that you would find Clinton’s crime more despicable than Bush’s crimes.
Clinton may not have upheld the constitution, but at least he didn’t flush it down the crapper. That came with the Bush administration.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Bradley it’s sheer irrationality how these people claim with total certitude and sincerity that Bush is a liar.
These people’s demented politics are a religion to them.
Vince, thats a great point, it does explain something, the left’s holding to irrationality so tightly;
Its almost funny the left says Bush lied and they have some problem with… ‘lying’?? Clinton is proven to be a liar under oath in court and the left says its okay to lie, even under oath.
So another double standard.
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1. spying on its own citizens, so whats your point? that its okay to give US secrets to enemies of the US? how DARE the President do his job?
2. exposing a cia agent’s identity? Another joke becase you leftys dont care if any cia agent was unfairly exposed, its not about the details, its only about the sound of the accusation. Even when it was Richard Armitage of the dept of State you leftys would lie by saying it was Bush? figures.
3. Is this fantasy? you cannot possibly be talking about Irak. NO rational human could possibly say such an asinine, ridiculous thing. It was Irak’s Hussein who chose war, not the USA. Can’t you at least TRY to get your talking points close to what actually happened?
4. Are you talking about the Abu Ghraib incident? Where the liberal left spread the lies and propaganda of the terrorists from al jazeera tv while calling our brave men and women soldiers fighting in harms way, liars/terrorists? Why dont you extremist liberal lefties go join al queda if you hate the USA that much?
August 7th, 2008 at 12:49 am
detained by federal agents in Manhattan. He was interrogated and his notes were confiscated, violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights.” The author provides no further detail.
OH HOW UNFAIR! and how would you know its a violation of any rights? Isnt that for a court to determine?
If you liberal lefties had your way? we would fully disban the US military completely, take down and remove the US flag, burn the constitution and turn the USA into a universal nation where anything goes, anarchy and communism are wonderful!
August 7th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Anything’s better than the fucks we have in the white house. Even communists
August 12th, 2008 at 10:44 pm