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Tear Down This War  Opposing Christian (Bush) and Islamic extremist militants.

 

What is Tearerism?
New York Times  National Intelligence Estimate article
and 

Barack Hussein Obama, a Bridge to Islam  below

The Internet is the new medium to invent useful important words and concepts.  These pages explore that effort and how powerful controversial words and phrases move the world (below).  

A majority of Americans now question our government's invasion of Iraq.  The events of  9/11 and Bush's 'War on Terror' has caused many to believe that Islam is a barbaric and anti-Judeo-Christian religion.  But also, many believe that the Bush administration has not done enough to counter the 'we' versus 'them' psyche in which all Muslims are assumed linked to evil.  In reality, the vast majority of Muslims have confronted the menace of extremism within Islam through much of its history.  Its the Western focus on violent means to problem solution that should examined and how it provokes an Islamic extremist violent response by a small minority of the religion.  George Bush and the 'neocons' have been the greatest 'organizer' of Islamic extremists that has ever been. Period.

  Barack Hussein Obama,     a Bridge to Islam, Let's hijack Reagan's famous phrase ("..Tear Down This Wall")  ... let's tear down the war on terror.  "Tear Down This War"

In the darkness of this confusion, the words 'terror, terrorist and terrorism' have been so corrupted and manipulated that they should be abandoned.  They are too generalized and do not separate out violent extremist elements of Islam.  (All regions and nations of the world have their version of the Ku Klux Klan and see CFR).  And they are too easily attached to anyone opposing the neo-Conservative agenda.  They should be intellectually TORN down.  And the word 'War' has greatly contributed to this corruption and manipulation.    Again the neo-Conservative agenda calls for violent solutions and has been referred to as the War Without End.  It also should be non-violently TORN down.  As patriotic Americans we have a right to question our government's use of the English language to involve us in violent actions that millions now believe we were tricked into agreeing to, such as the invasion of Iraq.  We have every right to question the use of the phrase 'war on terror'.  Let's hijack Ronald Reagan's famous line: "Mr. Gorbachev ... Tear Down This Wall" and say "Tear Down This War"...

Anti-war efforts can also include the skillful use of language to move its cause.    We can invent, change or otherwise define the words we need to promote peace.    That is what this website is about; thus the new word 'Tearerist'.  Its just another example of creativity to form the word Tearerist and make it a word that promotes peace.  The urgency to do this outweighs any unfamiliarity with the concept.  Thus 'Tearerism.com'.

        Powerful, Controversial Words that Move Us in America     top    
     
  • 20% own 50% of American wealth.  Income gap.  CBO report.
  • Abortion, coat hanger, RU486.
  • ACT UP, SUVs, civil disobedience.
  • Card carrying member of the ACLU.
  • Ambulance Chasers
  • Bay of Pigs, Operation Northwoods, carry out acts of terrorism to justify invasion of Cuba. Kennedy.  FOI doc
  • Beatniks, Hippies, Peace sign.
  • 'The Big Dig', Kerry.  Voted to authorize Iraq War.  Bronze Star, addressed Congress as Vietnam war protester.
  • Bodybags
  • Brady Bill Stop the NRA, Assault Weapons Ban
  • Chappaquiddick
  • Black Power.  Civil Rights Act of 1963.  Watts Riots, Huey Newton, Joan Baez. Arlo Guthrie.  Acid
  • Bush GW 'Crusade' remark, was it an accident?
  • Pres. Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinski, the blue dress,  'Right Wing Conspiracy?'. Impeachment, Stock Market Bubble.
  • Common Dreams The Pentagon Unleashes a Holy Warrior.
  • 'Dean Scream', broadcast over 600 times on major networks, iced him.
  • Draft Card and Flag Burning
  • Elitists, Over-educated
  • ERA Equal Rights Amendment
  • Evolution, Scopes Monkey Trial
  • Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore
  • Flight 77, Pentagon, Global Hawk
  • Gay, Queer, Fag
  • Ghandi, imperialism
  • Green  ...    Peace.
  • Guerilla daisies
  • Hanging chads, Florida 2000.
  • Homeless, half are Viet Nam vets.
  • Yes to International Court, World Court.
  • John Lennon, Yoko Ono.  Nude Protest.
  • Love Canal
  • Jim Crow history.  Less than 10% vote Republican  South Africa, Apartheid. MLK.  Nelson Mandela.  NAACP, 'back of the bus'.
  • Barry Goldwater, and the Bomb. 1964 election.  Democratic campaign ad.  Mushroom cloud.
  • The Great Society, Lyndon Johnson
  • Jimmy Hoffa, Sticker Shock.  Union corruption.  
  • How long would it take to develop the ability to penetrate a Missile Defense system created by a foreign power?
  • Human shields
  • John Kerry.com on McCain smear campaign by Bush 
  • Kennedy, John  "Ask not what...." George Magazine, prohibition fortunes.  Bobby
  • Kyoto, global warming
  • Leakgate, Plame Wilson Cheney   info.  Robert Novak 
  • Lemnitzer, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Operation Northwoods, blow up Glenn's space capsule, pretext to war with Cuba, 1960
  • 'Liberal' Tax and Spend Democrats, Liberal Press, Women's Lib.
  • Leftists, Dems, Donkey
  • Eugene McCarthy, anti-Vietnam War presidential candidate. 1968, long hair.
  • The New Deal
  • Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg
  • Politrix endorsed by ACLU, Alternet, American Free Press, Antiwar...
  • Rachel Corrie, Bulldozer death, March 2003, Israel / Palestinians
  • Rabin, Carter 
  • Refusniks, Israel
  • Roe v Wade, Pro Choice,  'Partial-Birth Abortion' ban opponents.
  • Roosevelt, "The only thing to fear is fear itself." Term Limits
  • Whitewater, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Healthcare reform.  
  • Ayatollah Sistani, will not communicate with CPA, advocates non-violent solutions in Iraq.  Iraqi Women's Rights?
  • Smirking Chimp, subliminable / subliminal news, nuclear.
  • The Uninsured, subvertising
  • Gulf of Tokin Resolution (Johnson) greatly expanded the war and grew from a huge lie.  Robert McNamara', book: 'In Retrospect', the tragedy and lessons of Viet Nam. and Scribe  and 'Peace with Honor'. and the 'Silent Majority'.
  • Truman, Harry.  "The buck stops here".  Enola Gay.
  • Viet Nam Vets Against War
  • War on Poverty, Lyndon Johnson, knew Viet Nam war was unwinable, and prolonged by years.
  • Welfare Reform, Clinton stole the concept from the Republicans. 1996, Cohen as Secretary of Defense?
  • The Big Bang 
  • Holocaust
  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki
  • Law of the Jungle, rich, poor
  • IsBushWired.com:  debates, small, boxy shape between his shoulder blades,  speaks for itself.
  • Jewish Criticism of Zionism Edward C. Corrigan
  • WMD, Terrorism, 9/11
  • White Trash, Trailer Trash.
  • The Earth is Flat, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution.
  • WWI, notes from First World War Propaganda in the 'Drift Towards War' :  "hyphenated European - Americans", the "foreign vote", liberty steaks, liberty cabbage (fries).  Demonization of Germans (Bush not doing enough to separate out militant extremist  Muslims).  The Committee on Public Information (TIA Total Information Awareness) and  CPI (CPA) censorship,  Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918.  (Patriot Act) The Division of Civic and Educational Cooperation (Dept of Homeland Security) pamphlets: The German Whisper.  Propaganda that appealed to the heart not the mind.  "Every war must appear to be a war of defense against a menacing, murderous aggressor. (see meeting photos of Donald Rumsfeld / Sadam Hussein, 1984)  League of Nations.  The propagandists willingness to lie.  end.
  • ..............
  • Porn, Pot, Dirty Harry
  • Where were you on November 13th, 1963?, Marilyn Monroe
  • nigger, coloreds, japs and on and..
  • Columbine, breast feeding
  • Oklahoma City, Death penalty
  • DDT,PCB's, BoPahl,
  • Hitler, D-Day, Arlington Cemetery
  • 38th Parallel, Mason Dixon Line
  • Qur'an, Bhuda, Kosher, non-violent protest.
  • Bay of Pigs, Cuban cigar
  • Mini skirt, Viagra
  • OJ  Simpson, Police brutality
  • Y2K, hacker, virus, worm
  • Napalm, Tet Offensive, My Lai
  • Where's the beef? 
  • The Pill, AIDS
  • Lincoln, slaves
  • Niagara Falls, Brownout
  • Jesus, The Lord, The Universe
  • Charity, Catholic, pedophile, Pope
  • Soft Money, Attack Ads
  • Crash of 29, Depression
  • Asbestos, 'a smoke', 'a chew'
  • Cancer, Ethical drugs
  • B-52's, Liberace, Pavarotti
  • Elvis, The Sex Pistols
  • Behind the Green Door
  • Redistricting, Gerrymandering
  • Featherbedding, Haymarket  
  • Henry Ford
  • Flipflopper
  • Buffalo, Custer, Pol Pot, Mayans
  • Mother Theresa, Ku Klux Klan
  • Keeping up with the Joneses
  • The Big Apple, Dejavou
  • El Nino, Save the Whales
  • Fetal Rights, DNA
  • Draft Dodgers, National Guard
  • Boondoggle, Muckraker,
  • United Nations, Dag Hammerskjold
  • Hula hoop, transistor, black hole.
  • Military Industrial Congressional Complex
  • Money laundering
  • Denying one is racist in a very racist world
  • 700 Club   "A close study of the Quran makes very clear the violent spirit fueling what is being spun as a 'peaceful' religion".  Ted Haggard. and remember Tammy Baker.
  • ABC (Disney), NBC (General Electric), CBS (Viacom). FOX (Murdoch) sweeps, fear factor, wonder if next season:  eating excrement.  Anthrax.  Bioport.
  • Air Traffic Controllers, 11359 fired, 1981, Union busting, 
  • The American Way of Life, Freedom, Cadillac, concealed weapon.
  • American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise   Jewish Visual Library,  Sharon, Likud, The Security Fence
  • American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Sen. Rick Santorum speech.  Committee assignments include: Committee on Rules and Administration, with Sen. Trent Lott. ANWR, Alaska National Wildlife Reserve, and energy independence.
  • An End to Evil, How to Win the War on Terror  American Enterprise Institute, by David Frum, Richard Perle.  Neo Conservatives
  • Why did Andersen change its name to Accenture?  Enron.   Phillip Morris Altria? Camel cartoon?
  • Balanced Budget Amendment, Sen. Phil Graham, Republican
  • Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, proselytizing in uniform, in church, putting the "war on terrorism" in religious terms.  Violated regulations.
  • Bush Sr.  "Read my lips", 1989 downsizing, reduce regulation and taxes, strong defense.  RNC platform.
  • Carlyle Group, Halliburton, KBR, Siemens, DuPont, Napalm, drones, data mining.
  • CBN   Christian Broadcast Network, Creation, Creation Science?  Stand by Your Man.
  • Charleton Heston, "My cold dead hands".  Oppose assault weapons ban. 
  • Christian Coalition  The Christian Right is Better Than Being Wrong, bumper sticker, Pat Robertson
  • Club for Growth Reagan vision of limited government and lower taxes.    'Class warfare'
  • The Cold War, "Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR down that wall", Ronald Reagan,  Evil Empire.  Admitted missile swap for hostages with Iran, 1980.   Silent on AIDS.
  • Compassionate Conservative, National Guard  'pilot', 1968, grounded for refusal to take physical exam.  Bush Sr. 'got him in?'.  "Is a lie".
  • Contract with America, Newt Gingrich:  End big government, zero base-line budgeting, committee meetings open to the public, audit Congress, committee term limits. Amazing.
  • Council on Foreign Relations  Terrorism: Questions & Answers, blames terrorism on Wahhabi extremists, Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists.  more
  • De-contextualizeRichard Perle, ignore reasons for terrorism, only remedy is death to terrorists.
  • Tom Delay,  House Majority Leader.  received  Zionist awards,   Trent Lott now the Chairman of the Committee on Rules & Administration of U.S. Senate.  Strom Thurmond.  
  • Depleted Uranium, Churchill, Marshall, "Old soldiers never die..."
  • Dixiecrats, Nixon, 'Southern Strategy' to capture segregationist vote.
  • Fay Report, Taguba Report.  Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, PFC guilty?
  • Rev. Jerry Falwell called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a 'terrorist'.  The Moral Majority.
  • 'Earned it', Goldman Sachs
  • Enron, Kennyboy, Worldcom, Adelphia, Dynergy.  Calif. brownout.
  • Exxon Valdez, oil spill Alaska, lawsuit still ongoing.  Alyeska,  #1 Bush campaign contributor.
  • Forbes, highest price home in America is worth about $65 million.
  • Flag Desecration Ban Amendment
  • Flip Flopper: Bush changed the rationalization for Iraq war many times. WMD, spread democracy....
  • Fox News: apologized for 'metrosexual' label put on Kerry.  Murdoch.
  • Gay Marriage Ban, Amendment, actually now 'states rights' to Dick Cheney.  FMA
  • Globalization, New World Order
  • Golda Meyer
  • The Great Communicator
  • Greenspan: cut baby boomer entitlements, too costly.  Income gap?  Aid to Israel: 10's of billions.
  • Gulf of Tokin Resolution greatly expanded the war and grew from a huge lie.  Robert McNamara', book: 'In Retrospect', the tragedy and lessons of Viet Nam. and Scribe  and 'Peace with Honor'. and the 'Silent Majority'.
  • Gulf War Syndrome, denial, proof.
  • HMO, HealthSouth fraud.
  • International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism database
  • Iraq 'miscalculation'.  Bush Aug 2004.  'misjudged'.  Powell Sept 2004. 'catastrophic success'. Iraq.
  • Iran-Contra, Ronald Reagan, Oliver North.  Elliot Abrams, Amb John Negroponte , Adm. John Poindexter (Total Information Awareness Office), War on Terrorism.  Otto Reich.  Sandanista
  • Jelly Beans, Pat Boone
  • John McCain, South Carolina primary, Bush smear campaign.  (more) election campaign 2000,"'you ought to be ashamed".
  • Just Say No, Three Strikes, Don't Ask Don't Tell.
  • Kissinger, Argentina, 1976, "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly,". gave (right-wing) generals "carte blanche for the dirty war" against their opposition.  Pinochet.  Riggs Bank.
  • Life begins at conception
  • 'Liberals' is a four letter word, Stand by Your Man.
  • Log Cabin Republicans, largest gay conservative political group.
  • Trent Lott now the Chairman of the Committee on Rules & Administration of the U.S. Senate,  oversees all U.S. elections legislation.  "better off"..."if Strom Thurmond  had won the presidency in 1948".
  • McCarthyism,  Republican National Convention, 1952,  "Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors...traitorous work".  Nixon.
  • Missile Defense, Star Wars, new meaning to the words:  'successful test'.
  • MK-ULTRA, CIA, Mind Control, Nixon, subliminal ads.  
  • Monsanto's new name? Aspartame Disease, world wide epidemic.
  • Multilateral Agreement Investment, Corporate power over sovereign nations.
  • Sen. Edmund Muskie, 1972, Donald Segretti attack ads worked.
  • National Endowment for Democracy  Greater Middle East Initiative,  funding opposition movement to Chavez, Venezuela?, Sumate, 2003.
  • National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace Whitehouse, Bush, Cheney, 'war on terrorism'
  • No Child Left Behind (under-funding), Vouchers, prep
  • NORAD, why was it basically shut down for 45 min. after WTC strikes?
  • Paris Club,   Road Map, Office of Special Plans (Iraq War, catastophic success).
  • Patterns of Global Terrorism US State Dept, Patriot Act, Terrorism Alert System, Yellow Orange Red used.  
  • Personal responsibility
  • Project for the New American Century, Neo-con 
  • Pro Life, Right to Life, restricted Stem Cell lines.
  • Republican Platform 2000, mentions freeing the slaves, but says nothing about equal pay to women.
  • Rice, Condoleezza: "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud".   Cooked up evidence for Iraq war.
  • Sykes Picot Agreement Rothschild, Middle Eastern oil, 1916, French, British, Russians, Turks.
  • RATS ad, 2000 Bush campaign, Gore prescription drug proposal.  FCC probe? Right     Wing.  
  • 'Remember the Maine', Spanish American War. 
  • Robertson, Pat Receives Zionist award, 
  • Rumsfeld, Aspartame, 1976 as Secretary of  Defense, stirred up swine flu scare and spiked vaccine profits.  Gerry Ford campaign. 
  • Santorum, Richard Letter to Zionist organization. and Racicot, Gillespie
  • Spiro Agnew, VP, resignation.
  • State of the Union Speech, Bush, 2003.  'Bush's 16 Words': "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa".
  • States Rights, except for No Child Left Behind.  Gay Marriage Ban, Flag Desecration Amendment, Stem Cell Research, Faith-based Initiative.
  • Swiftboat Veterans for Truth Texas based political committee against Kerry.
  • Tax Havens, Liechtenstein, list
  • What was Mark Thatcher doing in Texas?  Equatorial Guinea coup plot financier?
  • Terrorism Research Center  security analysis, terrorist profiles, links, 
  • Potato, Potatoe, Dan Quayle, Born Again Christian.
  • Townhall  Tony Blankley, Thank God for General Boykin.
  • Lack of War Crimes prosecution protection as rationalization for opposition to World Court.
  • Washington, Whitehouse
  • Washington Times, Muqtada al Sadr linked to mass killings.  Has formed political party in Iraq?
  • War on Terrorism American Enterprise Institute
  • Watergate, Nixon  tape gap
  • Welfare Queens, (coined by Ronald Reagan) getting 'rich' by ripping off fed assistance programs).  The 'Welfare State",  
  • Wealth is a sign of superiority.
  • Weekly Defense Monitor 
  • Willy Horton, Michael Dukakis Republican campaign ad, the tank ad.
  • Yuppies
  • more
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top            Barack Hussein Obama, a bridge to Islam
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  • BarackObama.com God please save Barack Obama.  
  • go to Bush / Clinton death list170 names, page loads slowly, sorry, too many dead bodies .... 
  • Global Research Reopen RFK assassination  
  • Huffington Post save STOCKHOLM (AFP) - If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted.  All we need is love.
  • NAACP, many were concerned about Gen. Colin Powell, but they didn't understand that he was an agent for Israel, far from any advocacy of Blacks in America.  Senator Dick Durbin was among those that recommended the protection.  Michelle Obama, his wife, said she knew people were concerned about her husband.  
  • Obama's Global Poverty bill
  • Reality Bytes and Pieces  the term 'assassinate Obama has crept into Google's top 100 searches, 1st black president.
  • notes:  things have happened before in Dallas to important people, Benezir Bhutto was to become the new peacemaker leader of Pakistan. ... and the freshman Senator from Illinois is for 'change',  will cut back Blackwater operations, which Arizona Sen. John McCain will do the opposite, 
  • notes: Obama Hussein Barack, Hussein means 'beautiful', will the conservative whispering campaign about the name Hussein only help Obama, could he be seen as a bridge to the Islam world? 
  • After seeing the Bush / Clinton death lists, it's  not absurd at all to believe  that that Republicans (or Clintons) would assassinate Obama.  The attention may actually be a form of protection.
  • Broadbandmechanics "This country (my country - the U.S.) is filled with crackpots, nut case, bigoted racist assholes - and they would go ballistic if we elected a Black Man - even a half-Black man.  You never hear about left-wing nut cases assassinating people or blowing buildings up. Yet the right-wing is full of these kind of people. They call themselves ‘militia’."
  • Digital Journal Why didn't the right-wingers try to kill Clinton, he was called the first black president,  ...and for Obama ...  is this drawing parallels to the past so as to invoke emotional responses now?
  • Daily Mail.uk What about a Clinton/Obama ticket? unthinkable?  Would Hillary be the $ behind the bullet.
  • Political Assassinations British Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing caused uproar last night by predicting the assassination of Barack Obama if he becomes the first black U.S. president.  
  • Wikipedia Barack Obama, Who is Doris Lessing?  how is all this related to the Vagina Monologues, Hussein is not an illicit or taboo word.  How does rascism come into play here?  What is the the H-word is not like the N-word, John Stewart made some great jokes about it ... new term: Gaydolph Titler,  
  • World Meets Obama is in favor of concluding the Iraq War. He sees through the lies and abuses. He courageously denounces them. This means danger…
  • notes: resisting old fears, in the light of bright hopes, will Cheney lead the assassination team? Can he stand the idea of a black president? probably not.  Obama wants to take the troops out of Iraq.  Cheney again.  .... lingering worries, remember the civil rights movement and how many blacks were lynched by southern white 'religious' men.  African Americans are concerned, some may not vote for him out of fear for his safety.  Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, had no secret service protection, youthful advocates see Obama as an agent of change, he has to confront evil.  Coretta Scott King said: there's no challenge we can't overcome.  Very few assassinations have been performed by mentally deranged people.  ... but the risk is in the back of people's minds.  non-violence,  we cannot be crippled by fear, see
  • 95% of Black Americans will not vote for Republicans ... I wonder why?
  • Blackwater  Mercenaries
  • Bush White House
  • CIA RFK assassination
  •   170 names, page loads slowly, sorry, too many dead bodies .... 
  • Cunningham, Bill,  Islamophobe, Islamophobia, Islamaphobe, Islamaphobia, isn't the conservative focus on Hussein, which is a common Middle east name disparaging? Bill Cunningham, doesn't this weaken Obama's protection?
  • DLC, Democratic Leadership Council, Democratic Wing of the Republican Party ... is a vote for Obama waisted? 
  • Grizzly Groundswell
  • KKK Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America! A Message of Love NOT Hate!
  • McCain, John, that is John Lindsey McCain I mean,  apologized for Bill Cunningham, got alot of flack from Rush Limbaugh
  • NewsBusters "HufPo Blogger: 'Haliburton' or 'Blackwater' Will Assassinate Obama" he'll just be killed?
  • Wake Up America Military casualties During the Clinton Administration: 4,417 (?)   the unauthorized illegal war in the Balkans, Somalia, Haiti, aspirin factory in Sudan, illegal bombing of Iraq under sanctions, bombing of Afghanistan, 
  • Wall Street Journal The assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto reverberated through tight races for the U.S. presidential nomination in both parties and potentially gives an edge to candidates boasting of experience over those promising change.  and terms: an assassin lying in wait, grassy knol, rfk jfk mlk, lax screening at Dallas Obama rally, 
  • Yahoo  Will Clinton kill Barack Obama in Texas? It's not that incomprehensible. Barr McClellan, father of Bush's former press secretary Scott McClellan, wrote a book titled, "Blood, Money & Power - How LBJ killed J.F.K." Bill Clinton must hate Obama for beating his wife.
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  • Sidney Morning Herald, Australian chief lashes US on Iraq Email Print Normal font Large font Tom Allard in Baghdad July 23, 2007

    Latest related coverage Near miss for general as celebrations turn deadly Slideshow: Base justice Advertisement Advertisement AUSTRALIA'S Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Peter Leahy, has taken a swipe at the US military's strategy at the outset of the Iraq war, expressing disbelief that it has taken so long for commanders to realise the merits of engaging with the local population and winning their trust.

    Visiting a counter-insurgency centre for excellence at Taji, just outside Baghdad, General Leahy was briefed by a US Army colonel, Manuel Diemer, on the new US strategy of schooling all unit commanders in the importance of developing a deep understanding of the culture of the communities in which they are conducting operations.

    Colonel Diemer said the strategy meant combat units were now living among the population, doing more foot patrols, talking and interacting with the population well before they undertook any offensive operations.  This contrasts with the previous US practice of sending in forces with overwhelming firepower into trouble spots and then returning home to the relative comforts and security of a military base after blasting their way out of, or into, trouble.

    The tactics have created huge resentment among ordinary Iraqis and helped fuel the insurgency. General Leahy expressed his strong support for the new strategy, but with an important, and thrice repeated, caveat. "I can't believe you guys weren't doing this two or three years ago," he said. Colonel Diemer concurred.  As he has travelled around the Middle East, General Leahy has emphasised to his troops how the nature of warfare has progressed from the Cold War principles of conventional warfare.

    Rather than pitched battles between large militaries, soldiers were now working within and for communities.  "It's about protecting, supporting and persuading … and paving the way for reconstruction," he said.  Among soldiers anxious to be at the sharp end of a conflict such a message was not always warmly received, he said.  "Some of them think I'm a mongrel because I won't let them shoot the shit out of them [the insurgents]," he told Colonel Diemer.  In the two southern Iraqi provinces where Australians have been operating, they have achieved considerable success in developing links with tribal leaders and consulting widely before they undertake operations or reconstruction projects.

    In Iraqi society, tribal affiliations are paramount, often trumping any loyalty to nation and even religious sect.  For Australian units patrolling in Iraq's south, a meeting with each village leader is essential.  Their efforts to reach out are usually met with traditional Iraqi hospitality, the slaughter of a goat and a long feast for the soldiers.  The only drawback, said the Australian commander in Iraq, Brigadier Gerard Fogarty, were the resulting bouts of diarrhoea many soldiers suffered.

    Four Australians have been working with Colonel Diemer at the counter-insurgency centre since its inception eight months ago, a reflection that such policies have been an integral part of the Australian Army's doctrine for years, certainly well before the East Timor intervention in 1999.

 
  • Notes: NFU Intelligent Design Jokes page 8, why is it the most popular page? some search terms: ID, comedy or tragedy? and Creation Museum jokes, marketing creation by scaring kids with dinosaurs,  Bush / neocons addicted to war, apocalypse, end of the world, why are they afraid of evolution, new word: evolutiaphobia, remember the White Rose, Ratzinger, Pope, intelligent action, ID is quackery, repackaged creationism, disdain for scientific method, preference of faith over fact, Kansas jokes, irreducible complexity is absurd, chance, life, intelligent designer, does god have a penis, ID proponents say no 'god' in their work, but vast links to evangelical Christians, with a non religious upper management tier, secular business managers, humorous beyond belief, christofascism, fascism, how does the Discovery Institute fit in? Are Anschutz, Mel Gibson, Richard Mellon Scaife, Howard Ahmanson the best representatives of ID BS, how does the Institute for Religion and Democracy and the Council for National Policy dictate Republican agenda, Chronicles of Narnia is just another war glorification movie, Bush propaganda: message manipulation: Hitler, Mussolini, noble lies, Did Disney / ABC know and approve of Little Mermaid pornographic images? What about the porn scenes in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', phallic symbols throughout 'conservative' movies?  What is Tearerism, tearerist, tear down the war, tear down this wall, Ronald Reagan, Gods and Monsters, monsters in the closet, homosexuality, gays, Is Bush Gay, Larry Craig is real conservative, What about the Pepsi can with the letters S-E-X.  How do Abramoff, Rove, Bush, Texas, pedophile scandals, South Africa all fit?  Why is there no coverage of Jeff Gannon's overnight stays in the White House on days where their were no news conferences? How does Gannon, Talon News, Eberle Guckert, Gosch, GOPUSA fit together?  All this is part of population manipulation, war mongering, war profiteering and the deregulation, reduce taxes, strong defense, predatory capitalism is the Republican Party, media spin and lies: Maggie Gallagher, Sy Coleman, Science Applications International, FEMA fake news conference just the tip of an iceberg, the fourteen defining components of capitalism: briefly: nationalism, disdain for human rights, enemy id, patriotic frenzy, foes manufactured are liberals, gays, communists, socialists, military supremacy, high defense spending, social programs cut, rampant sexism, controlled mass media, obsession with national security, corporate power protected, labor power suppressed, disdain for intellectual arts, obsession with punishment of crime, pro death penalty, cronyism, corruption, fraudulent elections.  and fascism, roots of conservatism, Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidigger, Fredierick Nietzsche, Wolfowitz, Perle, PNAC, Micahel Ledeen, Rove's Brain, Bush's Brain, the corporate religious military complex, how does Slade Gorton, the Discovery Institute, and the 9/11 commission fit together? did they investigate the Israeli Art Students? NO, what is the conservative war agenda, ... and back to Anschutz: Regal Entertainment, Walden Media, funding culture wars, Passion of the Christ just a gratuitous violence piece of crap movie, Anschutz: Kansas Business Hall of Fame, 'the greediest executive of 2002,  chairman of QWest board of directors, SEC, indictment, litigation release, Nacchio, Woodruff, Szeliga, Mohebbi, Casey, Kozlowski, Noyes,.... gave GOP $700k, Nacchio 42 counts of securities fraud, Leone, Global Crossing, AT&T, Judge Herbert J. Stein, Arthur Andersen, Accenture, how much did Anschutz know? direct?...  research: John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, Harvard, University of Chicago, research the real Christian Zionist power, how does Richard Mellon Scaife fit, how homophobic is Mel Gibson, how anti-semetic is he? How is Howard Ahmanson tied to the Discovery Institute, Diebold, electronic voting machines, Calvinism, Acton Institute, Dominionism, Christian Reconstructionist, Iran Contra, National North, Oliver North, see Theocracy Watch or Americans United for Separation of Church and State, to get details.  Creation Museum a joke beyond belief, but has raised millions, like the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, responsible for enabling the Iraq War.  Does the GOP have a problem with little boys, pedophilia, all covered up with 'family values' agenda, hypocrisy, Why are 'fundies' so easy to fool, ... Interfaith Stewardship Alliance are global warming skeptics, costs of dealing with it outweigh benefits, Dobson approves of this, 80% of evangelical Christians voted for Bush, 95% of Black Americans refuse to vote for Bush, GOP dirty tricks, How does Cardinal Schoenborn, Schulerkreis, Schuster and Spaemann fit together, ... of course theirs the Argentine Lake Duck and the proof of intelligent design,  longest bird penis, ... If you investigate closely, see link between Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Christian right, in Seattle, ... and can't forget Britain's Channel 4 fictional movie drama 'Death of a President', depicting a Bush assassiiation, creating headaches for the National Security Agency, and their domestic spying agenda,
  •  White House cover-up of involvement in Franklin Scandal, Omaha, Pedophile, 1989

 

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"War on Terror" has backfired
Guardian  "The US "war on terror" has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today.  The Senlis Council, which has strongly criticised US policy in Afghanistan in the past, is particularly scathing of the Bush administration's "abject policy failures" in Somalia.  It said air strikes, support for Ethiopian troops that attacked Somalia last year and the ill-timed designation of a radical Islamist group, al-Shabab, as a terrorist group had been successfully exploited by the insurgency to boost recruitment.  "The lack of strategic acumen present in the 'war on terror' in Somalia and Afghanistan is in fact enabling the spread of the insurgencies present throughout both countries," said Norine MacDonald QC, the council president.

"The US is the common denominator in both countries – instead of containing the extremist elements in Somalia and Afghanistan, US policies have facilitated the expansion of territory that al-Shabab and the Taliban have psychological control over." Aid groups say Somalia, wracked by anarchy and violence for decades, is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis since 1993. Militias linked to the former Islamic Courts authority, which controlled Mogadishu in the latter half of 2006, are waging a guerrilla war against the occupying Ethiopian troops and the weak central government. With a small African Union peacekeeping force reduced to the role of bystander, several thousand civilians have been killed in the crossfire since early 2007. The UN, which considers a wider peacekeeping mission too dangerous, says 700,000 people fled Mogadishu last year. A 10-mile stretch of road outside the city now hosts more than 200,000 people, humanitarian groups say - perhaps the biggest concentration of displaced people anywhere in the world. According to Phillippe Lazzarini, the UN head of humanitarian affairs for Somalia, 2.5 million people are in need of food or other aid.

Against this grim backdrop, the Senlis Council, in its 79-page report, directly accused the US of undermining reconciliation efforts by backing the hardline president, Abdullahi Yusuf, instead of the more moderate prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein. According to the security thinktank, the US government in February disrupted negotiations with opposition parties - including hardline Islamists - by exerting pressure on the prime minister to exclude certain groups and individuals from a reconciliation process, particularly those on a US list of designated terror suspects.  The council urged Bush to end all bombing operations in Somalia, back a phased withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who are shoring up Yusuf, and create a UN stabilisation force to neutralise the power of Yusuf's transitional federal government.

"President Bush has the perfect opportunity to adorn the twilight of his final term in office with a success story in his self-proclaimed war on terror – a fast track 'surge for peace' to end the current Somali crisis," the council said.  Yusuf personally heard calls to lead a reconciliation effort during a visit to the US. Norm Coleman, a rightwing Republican senator, yesterday urged the Somali leader to reach out to "all stakeholders not associated with terrorism".  "The president said he took my words very seriously, and would maintain his commitment to reconciliation," said Coleman, who represents Minnesota, a northern state where more than 10,000 Somalis have settled.  Last month, the Bush administration granted Somalis living in the US under temporary protected status an extra 18 months as conditions in Somalia remained "dire".

As for Afghanistan, the Senlis Council said the resurgent Taliban provided a bleak example of how the US-led war on terror had failed there as well.  It said: "The Taliban and al-Shabab are successfully exploiting policy mistakes such as aerial bombings, ongoing poverty, and aggressive foreign military presence to the extent that they are increasingly viewed by local populations as representatives of their legitimate political grievances."

 

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 IIa  110th Congress S. Report 2nd Session SENATE 110- REPORT ON WHETHER PUBLIC STATEMENTS REGARDING IRAQ BY U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE SUBSTANTIATED BY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION together with ADDITIONAL AND MINORITY VIEWS June _2008. - Ordered to be printed   continued on page 2, and  page 3 at NewsFollowUp.com

Press Release (report below) of Intelligence Committee Senate Intelligence Committee Unveils Final Phase II Reports on Prewar Iraq Intelligence  ...  -- Two Bipartisan Reports Detail Administration Misstatements on Prewar Iraq Intelligence, and Inappropriate Intelligence Activities by Pentagon Policy Office --  Contact: Wendy Morigi (202) 224-6101 Thursday, June 5, 2008

Washington, DC -- The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, and a bipartisan majority of the Committee (10-5), today unveiled the final two sections of its Phase II report on prewar intelligence. The first report details Administration prewar statements that, on numerous occasions, misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq. The second report details inappropriate, sensitive intelligence activities conducted by the DoD’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, without the knowledge of the Intelligence Community or the State Department.

“Before taking the country to war, this Administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced. Unfortunately, our Committee has concluded that the Administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence,” Rockefeller said. “In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent. As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed.”

It is my belief that the Bush Administration was fixated on Iraq, and used the 9/11 attacks by al Qa’ida as justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. To accomplish this, top Administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and al Qa’ida as a single threat and insinuated that Iraq played a role in 9/11. Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses.

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Plame was outed because she was tracking Bush neocons activities in WMD proliferation in Turkey and the Middle East.  MORE

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“There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence. But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate.

“These reports represent the final chapter in our oversight of prewar intelligence. They complete the story of mistakes and failures – both by the Intelligence Community and the Administration – in the lead up to the war. Fundamentally, these reports are about transparency and holding our government accountable, and making sure these mistakes never happen again,” Rockefeller added.

The Committee’s report cites several conclusions in which the Administration’s public statements were NOT supported by the intelligence. They include:

Ø Statements and implications by the President and Secretary of State suggesting that Iraq and al-Qa’ida had a partnership, or that Iraq had provided al-Qa’ida with weapons training, were not substantiated by the intelligence.

Ø Statements by the President and the Vice President indicating that Saddam Hussein was prepared to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups for attacks against the United States were contradicted by available intelligence information.

Ø Statements by President Bush and Vice President Cheney regarding the postwar situation in Iraq, in terms of the political, security, and economic, did not reflect the concerns and uncertainties expressed in the intelligence products.

Ø Statements by the President and Vice President prior to the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iraq’s chemical weapons production capability and activities did not reflect the intelligence community’s uncertainties as to whether such production was ongoing.

Ø The Secretary of Defense’s statement that the Iraqi government operated underground WMD facilities that were not vulnerable to conventional airstrikes because they were underground and deeply buried was not substantiated by available intelligence information.

Ø The Intelligence Community did not confirm that Muhammad Atta met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in 2001 as the Vice President repeatedly claimed.

Additionally, the Committee issued a report on the Intelligence Activities Relating to Iraq conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. The report found that the clandestine meetings between Pentagon officials and Iranians in Rome and Paris were inappropriate and mishandled from beginning to end. Deputy National Security Advisor Steve Hadley and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz failed to keep the Intelligence Community and the State Department appropriately informed about the meetings. The involvement of Manucher Ghobanifer and Michael Ledeen in the meetings was inappropriate. Potentially important information collected during the meetings was withheld from intelligence agencies by Pentagon officials. Finally, senior Defense Department officials cut short internal investigations of the meetings and failed to implement the recommendations of their own counterintelligence experts.

Today’s reports are the culmination of efforts that began in March 2003, when, as Vice Chairman, Senator Rockefeller initially requested an investigation into the origin of the fraudulent Niger documents. In June 2003, he was joined by all Democrats on the Committee in pushing for a full investigation into prewar intelligence, which was eventually expanded by the Committee in February 2004 to include the five phase II tasks.

The Committee released its first report on July 9, 2004, which focused primarily on the Intelligence Community’s prewar assessments of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and links to terrorism. Those findings helped lay the foundation for some of the intelligence reforms enacted into law in late 2004.

In September 2006, the Committee completed and publicly released two sections of Phase II: The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress; and Postwar Findings About Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments.

In May 2007, the Committee released the third section of Phase II: Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq.

Separately, in early 2007, the Pentagon Inspector General released its own report on the intelligence activities conducted by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and also concluded that those activities were inappropriate

 

report:

Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of June __, 2008 SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE, United States Senate 110TH Congress 

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WEST VIRGINIA, CHAIRMAN; CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, MISSOURI, VICE CHAIRMAN;  DIANNE FEINSTEIN, CALIFORNIA;  JOHN WARNER, VIRGINIA RON WYDEN, OREGON CHUCK HAGEL, NEBRASKA;  EVAN BAYH, INDIANA;  SAXBY CHAMBLISS, GEORGIA BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, MARYLAND; ORRIN HATCH, UTAH; RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, WISCONSIN; OLYMPIA SNOWE, MAINE; SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, RHODE ISLAND; RICHARD BURR, NORTH CAROLINA; HARRY REID, NEVADA;

EX OFFICIO MITCH MCCONNELL, KENTUCKY; EX OFFICIO CARL LEVIN, MICHIGAN; EX OFFICIO JOHN MCCAIN, ARIZONA, EX OFFICIO

Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information 

I. Scope and Methodology 

(U) This report’s scope, as agreed to unanimously by the Committee on February 12, 2004, is to assess "whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials made between the Gulf War period and the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence information. 

(U) In order to complete this task, the Committee decided to concentrate its analysis on the statements that were central to the nation’s decision to go to war. Specifically, the Committee chose to review five major policy speeches by key Administration officials regarding the threats posed by Iraq, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs, Iraqi ties to terrorist groups, and possible consequences of a US invasion of Iraq. These include: 

  • Vice President Richard Cheney, Speech in Tennessee to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention, August 26, 2002
  • President George W. Bush, Statement before the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002.3 
  •  President George W. Bush, Speech in Cincinnati, October 7, 2002.4 • 
  • President George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 28, 2003.5 • 
  • Secretary of State Colin Powell, Speech to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003.

(U) These speeches are the best representations of how the Bush Administration communicated intelligence analysis to the Congress, the American people, and the international community. They are also fairly comprehensive in scope, so evaluations about whether a particular statement in a speech was substantiated can be extrapolated to cover similar statements made at similar times. The Committee believes that these speeches would have been subject to careful review inside the White House and most were also reviewed by the intelligence community. (The drafting processes for the Secretary of State’s speech to the Security Council, and portions of the 1 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Press Release, "Chairman Roberts and Vice Chairman Rockefeller Issue Statement on Intelligence Committee’s Review of Pre-War Intelligence in Iraq," February 12, 2004. 

  • Transcript available at http://www.whitehouse.gov.news/releases/2002/08/20020826.html, link last visited March 21, 2008. 3 
  • Transcript available at http://www.whitehouse.gov.news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html, link last visited March 21, 2008. 
  • Transcript available at http://www.whitehouse.gov.news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html, link last visited March 21, 2008. 
  • Transcript available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html, link last visited March 2 1 , 2008.
  • Transcript available at http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/17300.html, link last visited March 21, 2008.

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IIa  110th Congress S. Report 2nd Session SENATE 110- REPORT ON WHETHER PUBLIC STATEMENTS REGARDING IRAQ BY U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE SUBSTANTIATED BY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION together with ADDITIONAL AND MINORITY VIEWS June _2008. - Ordered to be printed   
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Mukasey, Schumer, Feinstein, Conflict of Interest 

 

2003 State of the Union and the President’s speech in Cincinnati, are all discussed in the Committee’s first report on pre-war Iraq intelligence, Senate Report 108-301. The Vice President’s August 2002 speech was not reviewed by the intelligence community. Intelligence officials have told the Committee that they could not find any evidence that the President’s September 2002 address to the UN General Assembly was reviewed by the intelligence community. 

  • (U) The Committee selected particular statements from these speeches that pertained to eight categories: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction (generally), methods of delivery, links to terrorism, regime intent, and assessments about the post-war situation in Iraq. The report is organized along these eight categories, with each section listing the relevant statements from the speeches. 
  • (U) This report does not include statements made prior to summer 2002 or statements made by officials of the United States Government beyond the top levels of the Executive Branch. At the end of each section, following analysis of the five speeches, the Committee has listed additional statements by senior officials from the same time period. Those statements that contain assertions not included in the five major policy speeches have been examined further, to determine whether they were substantiated by available intelligence. 
  • (U) To conduct this review, the Committee assembled hundreds of intelligence reports produced prior to March 19, 2003 in an effort to understand the state of intelligence analysis at the time of various speeches and statements. The Committee is fully aware that officials may have had multiple credible sources of information upon which to base statements, but has not attempted to document or analyze source materials other than the intelligence, since that is beyond the scope of this report. (U) Furthermore, the Committee reviewed only finished analytic intelligence documents, with few exceptions. This did not include intelligence reports "from the field" or less formal communications between intelligence agencies and other parts of the Executive Branch. 
  • (U) The Committee has attempted to note where disagreements existed within the Intelligence Community and where different reporting could substantiate different interpretations. In order to complete this task, however, this report focuses first on major coordinated inter-agency intelligence reports such as National Intelligence Estimates, Intelligence Community Assessments and Briefs, and other consensus products. These products are not only the most authoritative, representing the full Intelligence Community position on the issues they cover, but also tend to be widely circulated within the government. The Committee also examined assessments, reports and statements to Congress from individual intelligence agencies to address those issues for which coordinated reports were not available or where there was disagreement among agencies. 
  • (U) In addition to examining the question of whether public statements were substantiated by the underlying intelligence, the Committee’s review also addressed the extent to which statements were incomplete and where relevant Intelligence Community assessments were not made part of the public discourse. A public statement that selectively uses only that intelligence that supports a particular policy position while ignoring or disregarding intelligence that either weakens or contradicts the position may be accurate on its face but present a slanted picture nonetheless. 
  • (U) Overlaying this issue of the selective use of intelligence is the more fundamental issue of the selective declassification of intelligence. Intelligence information contained in many of the speeches analyzed in this report had to be declassified before being released publicly. The Executive Branch has the prerogative to classify information to protect national security, and unlike Congress the Executive Branch can declassify information relatively easily. Until the Congress sought and obtained the release of an unclassified version of the key judgments of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s presumed weapons of mass destruction programs, the analytical judgments of the Intelligence Community on these matters were classified. The collected intelligence underlying these judgments remained classified until after the invasion of Iraq. Few, if any, of the Intelligence Community’s assessments on Iraq’s links to terrorism, the intent of the Iraqi regime, projected post-war conditions, or other relevant matters contained in the statements of senior officials were publicly released before the war. This ability of the Executive Branch to unilaterally declassify and divulge intelligence information at a time, place, and in a manner of its choosing must also be taken into account when evaluating policymakers’ use of intelligence information. _ 3

II. Nuclear Weapons • "The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents. And they continue to pursue the nuclear program they began so many years ago." - Vice President Richard Cheney, Nashville, Tennessee, August 26, 2002 • 

  • "But we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons." - Vice President Richard Cheney, Nashville, Tennessee, August 26, 2002 • "Many of us are convinced that Saddam will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon." - Vice President Richard Cheney, Nashville, Tennessee, August 26, 2002 • 
  • "What he wants is time and more time to husband his resources, to invest in his ongoing chemical and biological weapons programs, and to gain possession of nuclear arms.” - Vice President Richard Cheney, Nashville, Tennessee, August 26, 2002 
  • "Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its nuclear program — weapons design, procurement logs, experiment data, an accounting of nuclear materials and documentation of foreign assistance. Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. It retains physical infrastructure needed to build a nuclear weapon. Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year. And Iraq’s state-controlled media has reported numerous meetings between Saddam Hussein and his nuclear scientists, leaving little doubt about his continued appetite for these weapons." - President George W Bush, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002 • 
  • "But Saddam Hussein has defied all these efforts and continues to develop weapons of mass destruction. The first time we may be completely certain he has a — nuclear weapons is when, God forbids, he uses one." - President George W Bush, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002 • 
  • "The Iraqi regime has violated all of these obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons." - President George W Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002 • 
  • "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists. . .Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weap0ns." - President George W Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002
  • "If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year." - President George W Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002 • "Facing clear evidence of peril we cannot wait for the final proof- the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." - President George W Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002 • 
  • "After eleven years during which we have tried containment, sanctions, inspection, even selected military action, the end result is that Saddam Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons and is increasing his capabilities to make more. And he is moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon." - President George W Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002 • 
  • "We could wait and hope that Saddam does not give weapons to terrorists, or develop a nuclear weapon to blackmail the world. But I’m convinced that is a hope against all evidence." - President George W Bush, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002 
  • "To spare himself, he agreed to systematically disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next twelve years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons — not economic sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile strikes on his military facilities." - President George W Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2003 • 
  • "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high—strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production." · President George W Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2003 • 
  • "We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program. On the contrary, we have more than a decade of proof that he remains determined to acquire nuclear weapons." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, Address to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003 • 
  • "Saddam Hussein is determined to get his hands on a nuclear bomb. He is so determined that he has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from eleven different countries, even after inspections resumed." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, Address to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003 • 
  • "By now, just about everyone has heard of these tubes and we all know that there are differences of opinion. There is controversy about what these tubes are for. Most U.S. experts think they are intended to serve as rotors in centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Other experts, and the Iraqis themselves, argue that they are really to produce the rocket bodies for a conventional weapon, a multiple rocket launcher." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, Address to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003 • 
  • "Intercepted communications from mid-2000 through last summer showed that Iraq front companies sought to buy machines that can be used to balance gas centrifuge rotors. One of these companies also had been involved in a failed effort in 2001 to smuggle aluminum tubes into Iraq." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, Address to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003 • 
  • "We also have intelligence from multiple sources that Iraq is attempting to acquire magnets and high—speed balancing machines. Both items can be used in a gas centrifuge program to enrich uranium." - Secretary of State Colin Powell, Address to the United Nations Security Council, February 5, 2003 
  • (U) In major policy speeches the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State indicated that the Iraqi government had an active nuclear weapons program. The President and the Secretary of State both indicated that this nuclear weapons program had continued even while international weapons inspectors were in Iraq. Vice President’s Speech in Tennessee (August 26, 2002) 
  • (U) In the Vice President’s August 2002 speech on Iraq, he stated that the Iraqi regime had resumed pursuit of a nuclear weapons development program, and said "many of us are convinced that Saddam Hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon". He also said that "Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons", and that the Iraqi regime "continue[s] to pursue the nuclear program they began so many years ago."7 
  • (U) In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the intelligence community produced a number of coordinated assessments regarding possible Iraqi nuclear programs. These assessments consistently concluded that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) had destroyed or neutralized Iraq’s pre-Gulf War nuclear infrastructure, and that Iraq did not appear to have reconstituted its nuclear weapons pro gram.8 
  • (U) These assessments were also consistent in assessing that Iraq had maintained some of the intellectual capital and physical infrastructure necessary for a nuclear weapons program, and that Iraq continued to procure "dual-use" technologies, with both nuclear and non-nuclear potential 7 White House Transcript, Vice President Speaks at VFW 103'd National Convention, August 26, 2002. 8 Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee Report, Reconstitution of Iraq ’s Nuclear Weapons Program: An Update, October 1997; National Intelligence Council Memorandum., Current WMD Capabilities, October 1998; Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee Report, Reconstitution of Iraq ’s Nuclear Weapons Program: Post Desert Fox, June 1999; Intelligence Community Assessment, Iraq.· Steadily Pursuing WMD Capabilities, December 2000; and National Intelligence Estimate, Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015, December 2001. (These reports are summarized in Report on the US. Intelligence Community ’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Report 108-301, July 9, 2004). They agreed that if Iraq decided to restart a nuclear weapons program, with proper foreign assistance it could produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon within five to seven years, and that if Iraq in some way acquired adequate fissile material from a foreign source, it could produce a nuclear weapon within one year. The December 2001 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on foreign missile developments also noted that "Recent Iraqi procurements. . .suggest possible preparation for a renewed uranium enrichment program,” a slight shift in the intelligence community’s judgments, but still consistent with the judgment that Iraq did not appear to have reconstituted its nuclear weapons program.9 
  • (U) The intelligence community’s collective judgment that Iraq did not appear to have reconstituted its nuclear weapons program did not change until the publication of the October 2002 NIE on Iraqi WMD programs, which was the next NIE to address the topic. However, some individual agencies shifted their perspectives before this point. In April 2001, the CIA noted that Iraq’s attempts to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other dual-use equipment suggested that a reconstitution effort might be underway. This judgment was included in several other CIA assessments. 10 In August 2002 the CIA published a paper on Iraqi WMD capabilities (Iraq: Expanding WMD Capabilities Pose Growing Threat), which concluded that these procurement activities indicated that the Iraqi government had restarted its nuclear weapons program. ll 
  • (U) The Defense Intelligence Agency produced several similar assessments in 2002, noting in a May 2002 report that "Although there is no firm evidence of a current nuclear weapon design effort, we judge that continued procurement of dual-use nuclear-related items, key personnel assigned to nuclear weapon-capable sites, construction at nuclear facilities, and Saddam’s interactions with the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission all indicate that Saddam has not abandoned the nuclear weapon pro gram."l2 
  • (U) The Department of Energy (DOE) disagreed with the CIA’s conclusions regarding the aluminum tubes, and assessed that it was more likely that the tubes were intended for a different use, such as a conventional rocket program.13 Based on other evidence, including Saddam’s 
  • 9 rm. l° Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Iraq - Purchases Could Revive Nuclear Program (SC_No: PASS SEIB 01- 083CHX), April 10, 2001; CIA, Iraq: New Effort to Get Centrifuge Tubes, July 2001; Senior Executive Intelligence Brief, Iraq: Nuclear-Related Procurement Efforts, October 18, 2001; Senior Executive Intelligence Brief Iraq: Seeking to Rebuild Enrichment Capability, November 2001; CIA, Iraq: Centrifuge-based Uranium Enrichment Program Before and After Gulf War, November 2001; CIA Senior Executive Memorandum, December 15, 2001; CIA, Iraq: Status of the Nuclear Program, January 11, 2002; CIA, Iraq: Status of Baghdad ’s Uranium Enrichment Program, March 2002. UCLA, Iraq: Expanding WMD Capabilities Pose Growing Threat, August 2002. 12 DIA EH, Baghdad apparentlv has increased its activity at former and suspect nuclear sites, January 15, 2002; DIA Defense Intelligence Assessment, Iraq 's Weapons of Mass Destruction and Theater Ballistic Missile Programs: Post-9-1 1 September, January 2002; DIA Information Paper, Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, April 15, 2002; DIA Information Paper, Comparison of NBC and missiles programs in Iraq, Iran and Syria, September 10, 2002; DIA, Iraq — Key WIMD Facilities An Operational Support Study, September 2002; DIA, Iraq: Nuclear Program Handbook (DI-1610-81-01), Defense Intelligence Assessment, May 2002; DIA, Iraq’s Reemerging Nuclear Weapon Program, September 2002. B Department of Energy Daily Intelligence Highlight, Iraq: High Strength Aluminum Tube Procurement, April 11, 2001; Department of Energy Technical Intelligence Note, Iraq’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Is Reconstitution Underway?, August 17, 2001. . _ 7

meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, and possible attempts to procure uranium from Niger, the DOE assessed in July 2002 that Saddam Hussein might be attempting to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program, but suggested that the evidence was not conclusive.14 

  • (U) The Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (State/INR) disagreed with the CIA that Iraq had restarted a nuclear weapons program, and concurred with the DOE that the aluminum tubes were probably intended for other purposes. This view was included in congressional testimony in September 2002, but State/INR did not publish any reports on the aluminum tubes outside of the State Department until after publication of the October 2002 NIE.15 _ Several of these intelligence agencies also made reference to assessments by the National Ground Intelligence Center (N GIC) regarding the aluminum tubes. Testimony by the Director of Central Intelligence to Congress stated that NGIC judged that "Iraq’s dimensional requirements for the tubes are far stricter than necessary for rocket casings." A later memo from State/INR said that "the IAEA and - pertinent nuclear—technical experts have concluded independently that the aluminum tubes are not intended for Iraq’ s nuclear program and are consistent with rocket casings. . .DOE and DoD’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) concur on this assessment, though NGIC does not share most of the other DOE views on tactical rockets."l6 
  • (U) According to a DIA report, the intelligence community continued to assess that it would take five to seven years from the commencement of a revived nuclear program for the Iraqi government to indigenously produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon. This same report repeated the assessment that a nuclear weapon could be constructed much faster if adequate fissile material was acquired from a foreign source, though an earlier CIA assessment noted that "we have not detected a dedicated Iraqi effort to obtain fissile material abroad."17 President’s Speech to the UN General Assembly (September 12, 2002) 
  • (U) In the President’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, he stated that Iraq continued to develop weapons of mass destruction, and indicated that Iraq had an ongoing nuclear weapons program. Specifically, he referred to Iraqi efforts to purchase aluminum tubes, Iraqi efforts to conceal information about its pre-Gulf War nuclear program, and meetings between Saddam Hussein and Iraqi nuclear scientists. He noted that Iraq possessed some of the intellectual capital and physical infrastructure that would be necessary for a nuclear weapons program, and said that if Iraq could "acquire iissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year."18 (U) As noted above, the intelligence community had assessed for years that while Iraq’s nuclear infrastructure had been destroyed or neutralized by the IAEA and the UN, Iraq still possessed some of the physical infrastructure and scientific personnel that would be necessary for reconstituting a nuclear weapons program. Though the intelligence community as a whole had not yet concluded that a nuclear weapons program was underway, some (though not all) intelligence agencies believed that Iraq’s attempts to acquire high-strength aluminum tubes, along with supporting evidence such as Saddam’s meetings with Iraqi nuclear science personnel, indicated that the nuclear program was in fact being reconstituted
  • M Department of Energy Daily Intelligence Highlight, Nuclear Reconstitution Ejforts Underway?, July 22, 2002. 15 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence transcript of Hearing on Iraq, September 17, 2002; Report on the US. Intelligence Community ’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Report 108-301, July 9, 2004. 16 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence transcript of Hearing on Iraq, September 17, 2002; State/INR Memorandum, Iraq: Quest for Aluminum Tubes, October 9, 2002. 17 CIA, Senior Executive Memorandum, December 15, 2001; DIA, Iraq.· Nuclear Program Handbook (DI-1610-81- 01), Defense Intelligence Assessment, May 2002 (citing the views of the intelligence community). _ 8
  • . (U) Intelligence community analysts generally believed that the Iraqi govemment’s failure to provide certain evidence and documents regarding its pre-1991 nuclear program indicated that the Iraqi governmentwas attempting to conceal this information. However, this conclusion was not cited by the intelligence community as compelling evidence for a reconstituted, post-Gulf War nuclear weapons program.19 
  • (U) Numerous intelligence assessments made reference to open source information showing that Saddam met with personnel from the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC).2° 
  • (U) At the time of the President’s address to the General Assembly, the intelligence community had not changed its judgment that it would take Iraq at least several years to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon (‘five to seven years’ was the commonly cited timeframe, though a September 2002 DIA report judged that it could be done in four)2l, and that Iraq could build a nuclear weapon within one year if it in some way acquired an adequate amount of iissile material from a foreign source. President’s Speech in Cincinnati (October 7, 2002) 
  • (U) In the President’s speech on Iraq in Cincinnati, he stated that the Iraqi regime was "seeking nuclear weapons", and that Saddam Hussein was "moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon". He reiterated earlier statements about Saddam holding "numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists”, and attempting to "purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges”. He also said that Iraq was "rebui1ding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the 2past", and that "the evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons pro gram."2 18 White House Transcript, President’s Remarks at the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002. 19 CIA, Iraq: Continuing To Stonewall IAEA, July 10, 1998; DIA, Iraq: Nuclear Program Handbook (DI-1610-81- 01), Defense Intelligence Assessment, May 2002; and CIA, Iraq: Status of the Nuclear Program, January 11, 2002. 20 DOE, Iraq: Nuclear Reconstitution Efforts Underway? , July 22, 2002; CIA, Iraq: Questions on Nuclear Timeline, September 11, 2002; Report on the US. Intelligence Community 's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Report 108-301, July 9, 2004. 21 DIA, Iraq — Key WMD Facilities An Operational Support Study, September 2002. 22 White House Transcript, President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat, October 7, 2002. _ 9 .... this file originally created by NewsFollowUp.com Steve Francis on June 7, 2008.
  • (U) The President also repeated his statement that if the Iraqi regime came to possess highly emiched uranium, "it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year." Additionally, he suggested that there was clear evidence that Iraq was developing a nuclear weapon, declaring that "facing clear evidence of peril we cannot wait for the final proof- the smoking grm — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." He concluded that "we could wait and hope that Saddam does not give weapons to terrorists, or develop a nuclear weapon to blackmail the world. But I’m convinced that is a hope against all evidence."23 
  • (U) In the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the intelligence community expressed the majority view (with all agencies except State/INR concurring) that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. This conclusion was based on three primary bodies of evidence: Iraqi procurement attempts (primarily of aluminum tubes, but also including other dual-use technologies, such as magnets, high-speed balancing machines, and machine tools), apparent regime efforts to reestablish Iraq’s cadre of weapons personnel, and apparent activity at several suspected nuclear weapons sites.24 
  • (U) State/INR dissented from the majority view, and stated in the NIE that the available evidence did "not add up to a compelling case for reconstitution" of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. The DOE dissented from the majority view that the high-strength aluminum tubes were intended for use in a nuclear program, but concurred with the majority judgment that reconstitution was underway.25 
  • (U) In addition to discussing Iraqi attempts to procure aluminum tubes and other dual-use technologies, the NIE described meetings between Saddam Hussein and IAEC personnel. The NIE, like several earlier DIA reports, also discussed construction at facilities that might have nuclear applications Construction at sites known to have been part of Iraq’s pre-Gulf War nuclear weapons program was mentioned in earlier assessments (though not specifically in the NIE).26 
  • (U) State/IN`R’s altemative views, which were incorporated in the NIE, said that State/ INR accepted "the view of technical experts at the Department of Energy" who concluded that the aluminum tubes were "poorly suited" for a nuclear weapons program. The altemative views also cast doubt on the judgment that other dual-use procurement efforts were related to a nuclear program, and went on to say that "the informat