September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

source of the fabricated evidence, which was used to “justify” the invasion and
occupation of Iraq.
"Precisely because of the qualms the administration encountered, it created a rogue intelligence
operation, the Office of Special Plans (OSP), located within the Pentagon and under the control of neoconservatives.
The OSP roamed outside the ordinary inter-agency process, stamping its approval on
stories from Iraqi exiles that the other agencies dismissed as lacking credibility, and feeding them to
the president. At the same time, constant pressure was applied to the intelligence agencies to force their
compliance. In one case, a senior intelligence officer who refused to buckle under was removed."
[NEWS BRIEF: "There was no failure of intelligence: US spies were ignored, or worse, if they failed
to make the case for war", The Guardian (London), February 5, 2004, carried in Daily News Updates
2/8/2004.,http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1141116,00.html ]
These fabrications which took America to war with Iraq were based on a long standing
Likud policy paper authored by Perle and Feith in 1996.
"The OSP and the other members of the networks that operated throughout key US agencies shared a
right-wing, pro-militarist ideology and are fanatically pro-Israel. Feith and Perle authored an infamous
policy paper in 1996 for the Likud Party extremist, Benjamin Netanyahu, entitled “A Clean Break: A
New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” This strategy called for the destruction of Saddam Hussein and
his replacement by a Hashemite monarch. Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iran would then have to
be overthrown or destabilized for Israel to be secure in a kind of ‘Greater US-Israel Co-Prosperity
Sphere.’ The OSP was an arm of the Wolfowitz-Feith policy of furthering the policies of the most
extremist groups of the Sharon regime, forging close ties with a parallel ad hoc intelligence operation
in the Israeli regime according to a report from the British newspaper, The Guardian" [“Who
fabricated the Iraq War Threat: An Inside View” James Petras, Centre for Research on Globalisation,
August 22, 2003]
To that end, the invasion of Iraq was as much a foregone conclusion as was the invasion
of Afghanistan. It was a decision made by this group years before ‘weapons of mass
destruction’ were presented to the public as the excuse for invasion, and years before the
attack on the World Trade Center. Nothing would have prevented the invasion, because
it could easily have been prevented – and spared thousands of lives and injured.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Saddam Hussein was more than ready to leave Iraq,
just like the Taliban was ready to surrender Bin Laden, but the US Government chose to
start a war instead.
"As Trireme (Richard Perle’s and Henry Kissinger’s venture capital firm)solicited investors at the end
of 2002, Harb al-Zuhair (a wealthy and politically connected Saudi businessman) made a trip to his
native Iraq, and met with government officials including Saddam's intelligence chief -- Tahir Abd' Jalil
Habbush al-Tiktriti, head of Iraq's Mukhabarat, or General Intelligence Service. He returned with an
important message for the U.S. government: On the eve of war, Saddam wanted to throw in the towel,
Zuhair reported to Khashoggi. The Iraqi dictator sought back channel negotiations with America that
might offer him a safe exit. Harriman and Khashoggi decided to arrange for Zuhair to tell his story to
Perle…."[Hersh uncovered Pentagon adviser Richard Perle’s role in securing homeland security
contracts, David Jackson, Chicago Tribune, June 25, 2004]
Both so called “conspiracy” interpretations (one in which oil interests are responsible,
another in which pro-Israeli Neocons are responsible) provide compelling insights, and
may explain the Bush administration’s behavior after the WTC tragedy, but do little to
explain events leading up to the attack. The hard truth is, this tragedy was beginning to
unfold long before Bush won the election, and before he won the Republican National
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