Propaganda 10

Begin 2003, nog voor de Amerikaanse aanval op Irak, schreef ik voor het tijdschrift de Humanist: 'Intussen had een dag na de aanslagen (van 11 september 2001) minister Rumsfeld, zonder zelfs ook maar één enkel bewijs van wie de daders precies waren, tijdens een kabinetsvergadering al geëist dat Irak ''een hoofddoel van de eerste ronde in de oorlog tegen terrorisme'' zou zijn, aldus de journalist Bob Woodward van de Washington Post die een boek schreef over de eerste 100 dagen na 11 september, vol vertrouwelijke informatie die hij van hoog geplaatste autoriteiten kreeg.' http://home.planet.nl/~houck006/oorlogomolie.html De Nederlandse commerciele media besteedden destijds geen aandacht aan Woodwards feitelijke verslag. Waarom zouden ze? De Bush regering had immers verklaard dat het Saddam-regime massavernietigingswapens bezat en daarom ten val moest worden gebracht. Journalisten die van mening waren dat de oorlog niet om niet bestaande massavernietigingswapens ging maar om olie en de dollar hegemonie waren geschifte complotdenkers in de ogen van onder andere mijn Hilversumse collega's. Intussen beschikken we over nog meer bewijzen dat de beweringen van de Bush-bende allemaal propaganda was. De Guardian bericht: 'Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by one of them. "Hard to get good case. Need to move swiftly," the notes say. "Near term target needs - go massive - sweep it all up, things related and not." The handwritten notes, with some parts blanked out, were declassified this month in response to a request by a law student and blogger, Thad Anderson, under the US Freedom of Information Act. Anderson has posted them on his blog at outragedmoderates.org.
The Pentagon confirmed the notes had been taken by Stephen Cambone, now undersecretary of defence for intelligence and then a senior policy official. "His notes were fulfilling his role as a plans guy," said a spokesman, Greg Hicks. "He was responsible for crisis planning, and he was with the secretary in that role that afternoon." The report said: "On the afternoon of 9/11, according to contemporaneous notes, Secretary Rumsfeld instructed General Myers [the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff] to obtain quickly as much information as possible. The notes indicate that he also told Myers that he was not simply interested in striking empty training sites. He thought the US response should consider a wide range of options. "The secretary said his instinct was to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time, not only Bin Laden. Secretary Rumsfeld later explained that at the time he had been considering either one of them, or perhaps someone else, as the responsible party." ' Lees verder: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1716668,00.html Of: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0224-01.htm