User:Kevin Baas/Information

The DSM Coordination Center is a center for coordinating all things in support of exposing the truth behind the Administration's handling and presentation of pre-war intelligence, and whether the president was determined to go to war with Iraq prior to assessing and regardless of the facts, intelligence, and legality. The goals of this center are to aggregate information, prepare representatives (fight misinformation and propaganda), coordinate actions, and disseminate news.

Antimisinformation &bull; Information &bull; News &bull; Analysis &bull; Strategy &bull; Action &bull; Coordinate &bull; Counter-narrative

Predetermination of the war
TOP BUSH OFFICIAL SAYS IRAQ WAR PLAN BEGAN IN EARLY 2001: According to CBS 60 Minutes, then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill admits that "From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go. He said that "going after Saddam was topic '10' days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11." [Source: CBS 60 Minutes, 1/11/04]

CBS REPORTS IRAQ WAR PLANS ACCELERATED IMMEDIATELY AFTER 9/11: According to CBS News, "barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks." [Source: CBS News, 9/4/02]

TOP AMBASSADOR SAYS BUSH-BLAIR DEAL WORKED OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER 9/11: According to the UK Observer, British Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer admitted that "President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001." [London Observer, 4/4/04]

RICE INDICATED TO STATE DEPARTMENT IN 2002 THAT IRAQ DECISION HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE: The New Yorker reported that Bush State Department official Richard Haass said he met with then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in July of 2002. At the meeting, he said, "I raised this issue about were we really sure that we wanted to put Iraq front and center at this point, given the war on terrorism and other issues. And she said, essentially, that that decision's been made, don't waste your breath." [Source: New Yorker, 3/31/03]

BUSH SHIFTED KEY TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN TO IRAQ IN 2002: According to USA Today, "in 2002, troops from the 5th Special Forces Group who specialize in the Middle East were pulled out of the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to prepare for their next assignment: Iraq." [Source: USA Today, 3/28/04]

Suppression of intelligence

 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/21/AR2005052100474_pf.html
 * http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1607676
 * http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html

Links betwen Iraq and 9/11

 * Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda
 * 9/11 Commission Report
 * "And, he said, that two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration released a list of two dozen countries it said al-Qaida operated in, but Iraq was not listed." http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=93&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

WMD

 * Iraq disarmament crisis
 * http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=158&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 "don’t know what more evidence we need,"

pre-meditated

 * http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=159&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

RAF/US Bombings prior to declaration of war

 * http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK_and_U.S._bombing_raids_against_Iraq_increased_in_2002

Bolton illegal firing to avoid successfull weapons inspector Bustani

 * http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/AP_Probe_suggests_Bolton_manipulated_Iraq_inspections_to_favor_War
 * http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2002/04/16/a-war-against-the-peacemaker/
 * http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2002/04/23/diplomatic-impunity/
 * More Bolton
 * http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact (2003-10-20)
 * http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12427&l=i&size=1&hd=0

Statements bush made in private, prior to the declaration
"We're taking him out" Daniel Eisenberg. Time. New York: May 13, 2002.Vol.159, Iss. 19; pg. 36, 3 pgs

TWO MONTHS AGO, A group of Republican and Democratic Senators went to the White House to meet with Condoleezza Rice, the President's National Security Adviser. Bush was not scheduled to attend but poked his head in anyway-and soon turned the discussion to Iraq. The President has strong feelings about Saddam Hussein (you might too if the man had tried to assassinate your father, which Saddam attempted to do when former President George Bush visited Kuwait in 1993) and did not try to hide them. He showed little interest in debating what to do about Saddam. Instead, he became notably animated, according to one person in the room, used a vulgar epithet to refer to Saddam and concluded with four words that left no one in doubt about Bush's intentions: "We're taking him out." Dick Cheney carried the same message to Capitol Hill in late March. The Vice President dropped by a Senate Republican policy lunch soon after his 10-day tour of the Middle East-the one meant to drum up support for a U.S. military strike against Iraq. As everyone in the room well knew, his mission had been thrown off course by the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. But Cheney hadn't lost focus. Before he spoke, he said no one should repeat what he said, and Senators and staff members promptly put down their pens and pencils. Then he gave them some surprising news. The question was no longer if the U.S. would attack Iraq, he said. The only question was when.

Richard Clarke
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2005/06/richard-clarke-man-who-told-us-bush.html

Comprehensive List analyzing Clarke, O'Neill and Kay. Videos and Media Links:http://dawnofnewamerica.blogspot.com/2005/06/clarke-tried-to-tell-us-in-2004.html

Lt. Col. Christopher Warren, staff officer at Land Command, Salisbury, Wiltshire, who was responsible for operational training
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=132&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

More documents

 * Goldsmith memo
 * http://www.tomjoad.org/goldsmithintro.htm


 * UK Cabinet Office documents
 * http://www.edwardsdavid.com/media/iraq/reports/leaks-brief.zip
 * story of leak from source publication
 * analysis of UK Cabinet Office documents


 * Deputy Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office - letter of resignation
 * http://dailykos.com/story/2005/5/23/23541/7755


 * Letter to Ministers: IRAQ: CONDITIONS FOR MILITARY ACTION
 * http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1648758,00.html (IRAQ: CONDITIONS FOR MILITARY ACTION July 21, 2002)
 * http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html
 * http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000955273
 * http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=538 (excellent blog post, giving context)
 * ?same
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100723.html


 * Crawford memo
 * the crawford memo
 * "Meanwhile, documents leaked last month suggest that the WMD threat was also basically spin - a way of selling the war while the Government was actually embarked on a policy of regime change. This is a matter of considerable significance: not least because regime change is illegal. When was that decision taken and how? The likely date for this policy change was a summit with President Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002 - a whole year before war began and seven months after 11 September.


 * The papers show that the Prime Minister was being made aware of the risks. The Foreign Office legal team was reminding him regime change was illegal. So was the Foreign Secretary himself. Writing to the Prime Minister, Jack Straw refers to it as "the elephant trap" adding that "regime change could form part of the method of any strategy, but not the goal".


 * Tony Blair arrived in Washington aware that for the neo-conservatives around George Bush, Saddam Hussein was a priority target.


 * The leaked documents give a clear indication what the Prime Minister was thinking. His foreign policy adviser, Sir David Manning, told Condoleezza Rice, the US National Security Adviser, in March 2002 that the Prime Minister "would not budge in your support for regime change". So British officials at the highest level, were already talking to their US counterparts about a war based on regime change - even before their bosses had sat and talked."


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 * document from April 6-7, 2002, leaked November 2004
 * google search
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Office of Special Plans

 * wiki entry

Office of Strategic Influence

 * wiki entry
 * news article
 * pdf study

Timelines

 * DailyKos timeline
 * Raw story timelinw

Miscellaneous

 * http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/iraq/intelligence/7132720.htm
 * http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18034
 * http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2005/06/a_dsm_strategy.html

List of All leaked documents March-July & additonal links to media http://dawnofnewamerica.blogspot.com/2005/06/more-leaked-memos-pdf-files.htm  John Dean's analysis of WMD at http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html /posted by http://dawnofnewamerica.blogspot.com/

List of Witnesses
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 * Karen Kwiatkowski (video)
 * CIA agents
 * Richard Clarke
 * Mickey Herskowitz