Another Bush lie revealed: Bush ordered fake letter linking Iraq to 9/11
Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Ron Suskind alleges:
1) Bush ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq’s intelligence service to Saddam Hussein that purported to link the Iraqi dictator to the ringleader of the hijackers. CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante reported Tuesday that Suskind’s sources had seen a draft of the letter written on White House stationary.
2) Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
This is not surprising, just another brick in the wall known as the Republican Culture of Corruption, and the president who lied to America.
The existence of the Bush forged letter has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.’”
Politico:
According to Suskind, the administration had been in contact with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service in the last years of Hussein’s regime, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti.“The White House had concocted a fake letter from 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.”
Suskind writes that the White House had “ignored the Iraq intelligence chief’s accurate disclosure that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.
“They secretly resettled him in Jordan, paid him $5 million – which one could argue was hush money – and then used his captive status to help deceive the world about one of the era’s most crushing truths: that America had gone to war under false pretenses,” the book says.
Such an operation, tantamount to creating “false pretenses” for war, would constitute illegal White House use of the CIA to influence a domestic audience, an arguably impeachable offense.
What is “arguable” about lying to the American Public, killing over four thousand soldiers and marines, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, notwithistanding the hundreds of billions of dollars that this country has spent to honor the whim of this “c” student that somehow got elected president of this great country?
Let’s impeach him now, despite the short term left in office, to inform the world that American doesn’t operate this way, and that we are beginning a new era of diplomacy and international cooperation.
This is what happens when you let the schoolyard bully acquire this kind of power.
We went to war “because we could”!
How do you explain to your grandchildren that their dad or mom died in Iraq because George Bush concacted a story about WMD to show how he could be a wartime president?
I think we shoud impeach NOW!
It wasn’t a whim. It was a coup d’etat.
You would have to impeach Bush and Cheney simultaneously to avoid pardons.
But Pelosi took impeachment off the table, remember? Unfortunately it turns that that she wasn’t really against torture until she was against torture.
Cindy Sheehan is running against her in SF. Send her a check if you want to help.
Oh you just knew it. Thank God for Ron Suskind and William.
THE TRUTH IS CLEAR. Impeachment is necessary to protect our constitution. That is just the beginning.Bush is a war criminal. He should hang by the neck until dead for crimes against humanity.
Bush is the worst president in American history. Bush facilitated the 9/11 attacks. Subsequently, Bush lied to Congress and the American people relative to the reasons for invading Iraq. Bush purposefully misled Congress and the American people. Then, Bush murdered more than 4,000 United States service members. And Bush wounded more than 30,000 United States service members. In torturing prisoners of war, Bush patently violated the Geneva Convention. Bush unlawfully wiretapped United States citizens. In using “signing statements” to challenge hundreds of laws passed by Congress, Bush violated the Constitution. Bush has ignored global warming. Bush is guilty of criminal negligence relative to the response to Hurricane Katrina. Bush disobeys our democratic values and Constitution. Bush is a disgrace to the United States.
Furthermore, Ron Suskind has revealed that Bush directed the forgery of a letter connecting Iraq to the 9/11 attacks. Bush is beyond help.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA