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To: Ron who wrote (5561)	1/10/2004 3:10:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

For anyone interested, I already pointed out on the FADG thread that the things O'Neill described were government policy long before Bush was elected. Suskind says O'Neill and other White House insiders he interviewed gave him documents that show that in the first three months of 2001, the administration was looking at military options for removing Saddam Hussein from power and planning for the aftermath of Saddam's downfall, including post-war contingencies like peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals and the future of Iraq's oil. "There are memos," Suskind tells Stahl, "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'" Duh. Message 19676851 Message 19676859

To: Ron who wrote (5561)	1/10/2004 7:20:22 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 20773

As Brumar and others point out, none of this is a surprise. This has been governmental policy for the past 12 years or more. Beyond that, there are probably memos on every possible contingency floating around the White House. Memos and committees. That's the story of government. That's why it's so inefficient. There's probably a memo relating to the use of troops in the Phillipines, Jordan, Egypt, Georgia, etc.

To: Ron who wrote (5561)	1/12/2004 12:53:21 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

OLD NEWS What former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and other Bush administration blabbermouths failed to mention when leaking NSC documents and the like for the forthcoming book O'Neill worked on, is that the Clinton administration had many of the same documents prepared laying out plans for a Iraq post-invasion Iraq. "We had the same stuff," says a former senior Clinton Administration aide who worked at the Pentagon. "It would have been irresponsible not to have such planning. We had all kinds of briefing material ready should the president have decided to move on Iraq. In fact, a lot of the material we had prepared was material that the previous Bush administration had left for us. It just isn't that big a deal. Or shouldn't be." spectator.org