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12.01.04, 17:11
Książka Suskinda (na podstawie tysiecy oficjalnych dokumentów uzyskanych od O'Neala) i same wyznania O'Neala są dla Busha miażdżące.
Co więcej. To są dowody.
1.Bush od początku planował atak na Irak, choć w kampanii wyborczej twierdził, że on powstrzyma wojskowe interwencje zagraniczne. Kłamał bezczelnie w czasie kampanii, choć planował już coś innego.
2. Bush mówił:"Znajdzcie mi sposób, żeby to zrobić [zaatakować Irak]"
Widać ktoś mu znalazł 11 wrzesnia 20001 pod WTC..
3.Chodziło miedzy innymi o ropę... dowody niżej
4.Bush sam przyznaje sie, że jego "tax cut" to danie pieniedzy bogatym. Gdy miał zrobić to drugi raz, sam miał wątpliwosci: "Już dalismy raz bogatym, Czy teraz nie powinnismy dać sredniej klasie?"..
5.w związku z pktem 4., widać jak kręcą Bushem jak marionetką.
Carl Rove w tym momecie powtarzał mu mantrę (jak w "mind control"), dzieki której Bush w koncu sie zgodził.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
During the campaign, candidate Bush had criticized the Clinton-Gore Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that."
?The thing that's most surprising, I think, is how emphatically, from the very first, the administration had said ?X? during the campaign, but from the first day was often doing ?Y,?? says Suskind. ?Not just saying ?Y,? but actively moving toward the opposite of what they had said during the election.?
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As treasury secretary, O'Neill was a permanent member of the National Security Council. He says in the book he was surprised at the meeting that questions such as "Why Saddam?" and "Why now?" were never asked.
"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ?Go find me a way to do this,?" says O?Neill. ?For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.?
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He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. ?There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, ?Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,?" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.
Based on his interviews with O'Neill and several other officials at the meetings, Suskind writes that the planning envisioned peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals, and even divvying up Iraq's oil wealth.
He obtained one Pentagon document, dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts," which includes a map of potential areas for exploration.
?It talks about contractors around the world from, you know, 30-40 countries. And which ones have what intentions,? says Suskind. ?On oil in Iraq.?
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?It's a huge meeting. You got Dick Cheney from the, you know, secure location on the video. The President is there,? says Suskind, who was given a nearly verbatim transcript by someone who attended the meeting.
He says everyone expected Mr. Bush to rubber stamp the plan under discussion: a big new tax cut. But, according to Suskind, the president was perhaps having second thoughts about cutting taxes again, and was uncharacteristically engaged.
?He asks, ?Haven't we already given money to rich people? This second tax cut's gonna do it again,?? says Suskind.
?He says, ?Didn?t we already, why are we doing it again?? Now, his advisers, they say, ?Well Mr. President, the upper class, they're the entrepreneurs. That's the standard response.? And the president kind of goes, ?OK.? That's their response. And then, he comes back to it again. ?Well, shouldn't we be giving money to the middle, won't people be able to say, ?You did it once, and then you did it twice, and what was it good for??"
But according to the transcript, White House political advisor Karl Rove jumped in.
?Karl Rove is saying to the president, a kind of mantra. ?Stick to principle. Stick to principle.? He says it over and over again,? says Suskind. ?Don?t waver.?
