....I thought this thread would be apprieciated. It was compiled by a friend of mine, so I'll do my best to defend it in cooperation with him, but his beliefs are pretty much mine as well, so without futher ado...

btw, I can't wait to say "I told you so" h:

Index:

#1 Facts
#2 Interesting things to consider about the 9/11 attacks
#3 Article about Bush's rush to war
#4 Article About CIA directors Comments to Congress
#5 Senate Report 103-900 (Proof U.S supplied Chemical and Bio Weapons to
Iraq)
#6 Link to article on Gulf War Veterans Association website (backs up
claims made in the book reffered to in section #6)
#7 Excerpts from a book about how the white house armed iraq (Fairly long,
very interesting)
#8 CIA director's Letter to Congress
#9 FBI agent's letter to FBI director Robert Mueller (Fairly long, parts
that are very interesting)
#10 General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant comments on
service

---------------------------------#1-------------------------------------

FACTS

- United States military budget exceeds that of the next nine (world) powers
combined

- Bush proposed, a staggering $48 billion increase in the pentagons budget,
an increase larger than the total military budget of any other country.

- Bush now wants another $75 billion for the war in iraq

- Bush admitted that the US economy has entered a recession, but he had no
remedy for the growth of unemployment, poverty and social deprivation, only
proposing an extension of his program of cutting taxes for the wealthy and
big business. He made only passing reference in the State of the Union
speech to social needs such as education and health care, and his budget to
be released next week will funnel nearly all new spending to the military
and homeland security.

- The State of the Union speech came in the shadow of the collapse of Enron,
the seventh largest US company and one which has the closest political ties
to Bush and the Republican Party, as well as a series of other corporate
bankruptcies: Kmart, Global Crossing, Sunbeam, the entire steel industry.
But Bush could propose nothing on the question of jobs and living standards
except more government handouts to the corporations.

- Bush threatened to attack Iran, Iraq and North Korea-mentioning the three
countries by name. Despite his apocalyptic warnings about “thousands of
dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by
outlaw regimes,” these countries had nothing to do with the September 11
terrorist attacks, a fact acknowledged by the US government, the CIA, and
the FBI.

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This is just something to consider, none of it is fact, just a bunch of coincidence thrown togeather. Conspiracy theory? Maybe so, but still....

The Rockefeller and Bush families go back a long ways...back to the days of
Hitler. Now, the Rockefeller family has many oil interests IE Exxen Mobil
and many others. The Rockefellers oil policies are Osama Bin Ladens (bin
Laden family also owns oil companies which is how osama got his inheritance)
stated reason for hating the U.S. (The World Trade Center was built by the
Rockefellers) With that said, this next article says: Hussein and Bin Laden
both have reported business ties with the Bush family, the latter also tied
to VP Dick Cheney and Tony Blair through the Carlyle Group with oil and
pipeline interests. (Bin Laden and his Taliban continued to receive millions
of dollars of support under the current administration up to just a few
months before the 9/11 attacks.) Now if you do some research you will find
that there is a link between these people and people/ oranizations not
mentioned (organizations who enact policies in foreign countries and also
started by some of the above mentioned families.) Consider this. The trade
towers were constructed by the Rockefellers, they also BOTH collapsed
perfectly straight down (kinda like a building implosion done by
professional demolition companies) EVEN when one of the towers was hit off
center (a demolition expert watching the collapse on 911 said he could not
understand why the top of the first tower to collapse (the one hit off
center, and the one who's top started to fall off to the side) fell straight
down with the rest of the building instead of A.) falling off the rest of
the tower, or B.) pulling the tower off to the side causing the tower to
fall over to the side instead of fall straight down. The economy before 911
was bad and getting worse and Bush's popularity ratings were streadily
dropping. Bush was in Florida the day of the attacks...and the section of
the pentagon hit was a section with the least amount of people in it (it was
under renovation at the time). Also remember that there was a FBI warning
before 911 about suspected terrorists in US flight schools...a warning which
was ignored. The FBI and CIA have said before 911 they had reason to
believe terrorists were planning attacks on the U.S. Also the World Trade
Center housed documents to several FBI investigation into government
officials and corprate scandals. NOW...are all of these coincedence...the
towers falling perfectly, the president in florida, the pentagon being hit
in the least "destructive" spot, the warnings of terrorism being ignored at
the highest levels? Definately raises questions....now to further your
questions look at this:
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero...erreurs_en.htm
with that said also consider this intersting fact. Reagan Airport is less
than 1 mile from the pentagon on the EXACT opposite side of the pentagon
that was hit, with runways available to land or take off from coming from
the direction the 757 would have been coming from. So if the plane was
travelleling at a minimum speed of 250mph....it could be within the air
traffic of reagan airport in less than 2 seconds....(its traveling approx
.69 miles/ second) By the time the explosion and sound of the crash was
noticed the 757 would have been able to blend in with the rest of the
airport traffic & or been on the ground at Reagan. If you find this
interstesting look into it...you will find ALLLL kinds of links and theories
behind this....As for the question of why our government would stage
something like that. The terrorist attack that launched hitler was known
that it was going to happen....knowing that hitler put accelarants into the
building to fuel the fire. Used it to get backing for his plans in the name
of "fighting terrorism"
here is the article about bush and cheney giving osama money:
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/war.htm

--------------------------------#3--------------------------------------

Here is an Article about Bush's rush to war called "Bush has little use for
diplomatic niceties"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...atoday/4956571

--------------------------------#4--------------------------------------
this is information from another news site...mainly talks about the CIA
directors comments to congress (CIA letter can be found further down the
page). But the article, after all the comments, says:
The bottom-line: Saddam is not likely in the near future to hit the United
States or share his weapons with al Qaeda or other anti-American terrorists,
unless the United States assaults Iraq. This is hardly the picture the
President is sharing with the American public.
Article also says this:
Recently, Representative Jim McDermott, a Seattle Democrat, was lambasted
when he commented, while in Baghdad, that it was conceivable Bush would
"mislead" the public in his pursuit of Saddam. Pundits and Republicans
howled, and some Democrats complained McDermott had tainted their party. Any
campaign consultant could have told McDermott it was politically unwise to
utter such an inflammatory statement while in Iraq, the land of the enemy.
But McDermott's point--that Bush is willing to stretch the truth to obtain
authority to launch a war--has been confirmed. By the CIA.
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgame...?bid=3&pid=119

----------------------------------#5------------------------------------

This is an excerpt from Senate Report 103-900 (S.R. 103-900, February 09,
1994) U.S. EXPORTS OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS TO IRAQ
In the Full Report, you will learn that about 10 to 18 different biologicals
were shipped to Saddam Hussein. These biologicals were MADE IN THE USA in
Texas and Florida.
******
You can read the FULL senate report here, but its REALLY long.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
click "Text Search" under "Congressional Records"
Where it says select congress click "103"
Search For: "U.S. EXPORTS OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS TO IRAQ"
Click: "ARMING IRAQ: THE EXPORT OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND THE HEALTH OF
OUR GULF WAR VETERANS (Senate - February 09, 1994)"
Then Click: "[Page S1196]"
******
We found that pathogenic, which means disease-producing items, and
toxigenic, meaning poisonous items, and other hazardous materials were
exported from the United States to Iraq following a licensing and
application procedure actually set forth by our own United States Department
of Commerce.
That meant our own Government had to approve the shipment of these materials
and obviously did so--approving the shipment of these items to Iraq before
the war started.
Now, we further learned by talking to the suppliers that these exported
biological materials were not weakened when they were shipped over there. In
other words, many were full pathogens capable of being reproduced by Iraq
once they got there.
Between the years of 1985 and 1989, the United States Government approved
the sales of quantities of potentially lethal biological agents that could
have been cultured and grown in very large quantities in an Iraqi biological
warfare program.
I find it especially troubling that according to these supply records,
hazardous biological materials were requested by and they were sent to Iraqi
Government agencies, including the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, the Iraqi
Ministry of Higher Education, the State Company for Drug Industries, and the
Ministry of Trade.
While there may be some legitimate need for what are called pathogens in
medical research, obviously much closer scrutiny should be exercised in
approval of exports of materials of this kind to countries known or
suspected of having active and aggressive biological warfare programs. Iraq
has long been suspected of conducting biological warfare research in
addition to its known chemical and biological warfare research programs.

--------------------------------#6--------------------------------------

American Gulf War Veterans Association
U.S. SUPPLIES, CALIBRATES AND ENDORSES
USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN IRAQ
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/news11.htm

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Here are some Excerpts from a book about how the white house armed iraq
this excerpt involves everyone from William Casey (director of the CIA under
the reagan/bush administration. George Bush Sr. , Ronald Reagan, Donald
Rumsfeld, Haig (who i want to say was either secratary of state or secretary
of defense...not possitive, but he was secretary of something) and a guy
named Teicher who was a former CIA operative...not all are mentioned below
due to the fact i had to shorten it, but they were all involved)
(information about the book is at the bottom of the excerpt)

Haig, Teicher, and others in the administration who tended to be concerned
about the underlying threat that Saddam posed to Israel, a strategic
American ally, were shocked when they found out that Iraq had been taken off
the terrorism list. Secretary of State Haig was especially upset at the
fact that the decision had been made at the White House, even though the
state department was responsible for the list.
....
Casey had gone around everyone's backs in pressing for the change in Iraq's
status, ignoring the information about Saddam that was available to the CIA
and the White House. "We knew very well that Abu Nidal was based in
Baghdad," Teicher recalled. "we knew of Iraq's support for his and other
terrorist organizations. The decision to take Iraq off the terrorist list
was Casey's and Clark's." Clark when asked about the way the decision had
been made, said it "could very well be" that Casey approached him, but he
could not recollect this.
....
The other person Casey confided in, recalled Teicher, was George Bush. "Bush
knew about the covert operations, and Casey felt he could trust him, with
his intelligence orientation and all that." Teicher also remembered Bush
making his position explicit in meetings at the White House: "I attened
meetings where Bush made clear he wanted to help Iraq. His door was always
open to the Iraqis. If they wanted a meeting with Bush, they would get it."
....
U.S military equipment was being sent to Iraq on the order of the White
House, including ammunition, spare parts, defense electronics, and
computers. When Teicher asked what was gonig on, the answers he was given
struck him as very odd indeed. He was told that certain officials at the
White House simply picked up the telephone and "cleared" the deployment of a
plane with a classified cargo. Teicher inquired how this could happen. He
was informed that there were "channels" that the White House used to carry
out such policies. "I asked my colleagues how we were getting the stuff to
Iraq," he remembered, "and I was told that there are people out there who do
it for us." Although it seemed incredible to him that officials at the White
House could be assisting in the clandestine transfer of U.S maerial to Iraq,
Teicher was told not to bother himself about it.
....
"you have to understand something though. These off-the-shelf operations in
the Middle East occurred with great regularity. Yes, they were illegal.
But people think the Irangate affair was something strange. It wasn't. It
was just the one that went public. It was not at all abnormal." -Teicher
....
<ok, this next part is after we knew that iraq had a chemical and biological
weapons program>

In June, 1982, a White House meeting was called to discuss the Iran-Iraq
war. The prevailing view was that if Washington wanted to prevent an
Iranian victory <that would have been bad for our interests if iran OR iraq
won>, it would have to share some of its more sensitive intelligence
photography with Saddam. Some officials resisted the idea of providing a
Soviet clien state with this information, but William Casey ultimately
persuaded the president to make it happen.
A few weeks later, the first U.S satellite photographs were passed to
Baghdad. ... At times, thanks to the White House's secret backing for the
intelligence-sharing, U.S. intelligence officers were actually sent to
Baghdad to help interpret the satellite information. ....the United States
even built an expensive high-tech annex in Baghdad to provide a direct
down-link receiver for the satellite intelligence and better processing of
the information.

<At the same time that was happening this next part was going on (like i
said before if either side won, it would be bad for our interests...we were
playing both sides)>

Casey and his White House allies plotted secret arms sales to Tehran (IRAN),
partly in order to seek the release of American hostages held in Beirut by
Iranian-supported terrorists and partly to counteract the perceived threat
of Soviet influence in Iran. By 1986, the White House was steeped in a
covert ethic. The off-the-books operations involving the diversion of
profits from arms transfers to Iran, in contravention of the law prohibiting
aid to Nicaragua, were eventually exposed and became known to the public as
the Iran-Contra affair. The equally egregious and simultaneous covert aid
in Iraq, however, remained secret.

Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed
Iraq.
Author Alan Friedman
Bantam Books 1993

If you've got the time or the money I suggest either buying it ($6.00 at
half price books) or going to Barnes and Noble for a little reading
session.....at least read the first chapter and look through the pictures
and government documents contained in the middle of the book. Gives you the
sources (government documents ect...) and the pictures are "proof" to some
of the things that took place