by Alex Emmons Naomi LaChance; The Intercept September 12 2016, "Donald Trump named former CIA director and extremist neoconservative James Woolsey his senior adviser on national security issues on Monday. Woolsey, who left the CIA in 1995, went on to become one of Washington’s most outspoken promoters of U.S. war in Iraq and the Middle East.
As such, Woolsey’s selection either clashes with Trump’s noninterventionist rhetoric — or represents a pivot towards a more muscular, neoconservative approach to resolving international conflicts.
Trump has called the Iraq War “a disaster.”
Woolsey, by contrast, was a key member of the Project for the New American Century — a neoconservative think tank largely founded to encourage a second war with Iraq. Woolsey signed a letter in 1998 calling on Clinton to depose Saddam Hussein and only hours after the 9/11 attacks appeared on CNN and blamed the attacks on Iraq. Woolsey has continued to insist on such a connection despite the complete lack of evidence to support his argument. He also blames Iran."
Bringing Closure to the 9/11 Pentagon Debate
By John D. Wyndham | Oct 7, 2016 | Essays, Science, US | 18 |
John D. Wyndham, FPJ 7 Oct 2016
Bringing Closure to the 9/11 Pentagon Debate
It’s time for the 9/11 truth movement to resolve its Pentagon debate by applying the scientific method. Doing so points conclusively to large plane impact.
Robert Fisk, Independent 204.2016, according to the New York Times, the Saudis have even threatened to sell billions of dollars of their US assets if Congress passes a bill allowing the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for the crimes against humanity of 9/11.
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GW Bush 20 Sept 2001: "“And one of the great goals of this nation's war is to restore public confidence in the airline industry and to tell the traveling public, get on board, do your business around the country, fly and enjoy America's great destination spots. Go down to Disney World in Florida, take your families and enjoy life the way we want it to be enjoyed.”
Fourteen years later and we are still living in an improbable world. Tom Engelhardt discusses the wars, interventions, assassinations, tortures, kidnappings, the growth of the American national security state and the spread of Islamic extremism.
Published: September 9, 2015 | Authors: Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Nearly everything you know about the death of Osama bin Laden is wrong. That’s the claim being made by Pultizer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh.
Bin Laden wasn’t hiding in Pakistan, according to Hersh; he was imprisoned there by Pakistani intelligence. And US officials didn’t exactly track bin Laden to that location; they learned about it when a former Pakistani intelligence officer told the CIA the full story, in exchange for a share of the $25 million reward.
If US intelligence is to be believed, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the ultimate bad guy.- Background article from 2004. (via archive.org) "In the run-up to the Iraq war in February 2003, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations that al-Zarq