In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Bush is 100% responsible for Nick Berg's horrible murder
Again Bush put politics ahead of America's security - and Americans die because of it
From: Clues, coincidence trailed Berg in Iraq
On Thursday, CIA officials said an analysis of the video of Berg's murder strongly indicates that the masked man who stood behind Berg, read a statement linking his murder to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, then cut off Berg's head, was Jordanian Islamic militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
The officials said Zarqawi, also a suspect in the 2002 murder of a U.S. official in Jordan, heads his own terrorist organization and maintains contact with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. The United States has offered $10 million for information leading to the capture or killing of Zarqawi, whose real name is Ahmad Fadhil al Khalayleh.
Bush had multiple opportunities to get Zarqawi, but didn't take them because they'd hurt his marketing effor to get America into war with Iraq:
In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.
‘People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of pre-emption against terrorists.’
“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.
“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.
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The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam. Emphasis mine.
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