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U.S. military operations are already 'underway' in Iran!
On Cheney, Rumsfeld order, US outsourcing special ops, intelligence to Iraq terror group, intelligence officials say
Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0414nj3.htm
Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report.
A Defiant Sheen Challenges Official 9/11 Fable on National TV
We now know that Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the London bombings in July 2005. This is the conclusion of the British government's official inquiry report leaked to the British press on April 9. We now also know that the U.S. military is deliberately misleading Iraqis, Americans and the rest of the world about the extent of Al Qaeda's involvement in the Iraqi insurgency. This was reported in The Washington Post on April 10, on the basis of internal military documents seen by that newspaper.
US plots ‘new liberation of Baghdad’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2136297,00.html
XXXXXXXXX George WMD Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, are under intense pressure to prove to the American public that Iraq is not slipping into anarchy and civil war. An effective military campaign could provide the White House with a bounce in the polls before the mid-term congressional elections in November.
"Will the U.S. use the 'Fallujah Option' on Bagdad?"
What these influential warmongers openly call for is the "pacification" of Baghdad: a brutal firestorm by U.S. forces, ravaging both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in a "horrific" operation that will inevitably lead to "skyrocketing body counts," as warhawk Reuel Marc Gerecht cheerfully wrote last week in the ever-bloodthirsty editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal. Gerecht's war whoop quickly ricocheted around the right-wing media echo chamber and gave public voice to the private counsels emanating from a group whose members now comprise the leadership of the U.S. government: The Project for the New American Century.
U.S. arming of Iraq cops skates close to legal line
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060415security-story,1,4307400.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Required checks on rights abuses skipped
278 emails link Abramoff, ex-Bush official
One message from Abramoff, sent July 23, 2002, asks Safavian, "golf Friday? golf Sunday? golf Monday? golf, golf, golf!!"
GOP senator expects seven lawmakers headed to prison after corruption probes
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/GOP_Senator_says_7_lawmakers_headed_0415.html
A Republican senator told a town hall meeting on Friday that he expects at least seven lawmakers will go to jail in the wake of investigations related to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and others! ¶ 16.4.06
