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Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation

by Open-Publishing - Friday 22 April 2005
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Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation
What Really Happened

April 21, 2005

Let’s start with a simple fact. The United States invaded and conquered Iraq on the basis of lies. Even the official report of the United States Senate < http://www.infowars.com/print/iraq/war_on_alie.htm > admits as much.
So, where did all this bad information come from? While the culprits would like to pin the blame on the Central Intelligence Agency, the facts point in a different direction. To cite just one example, the now-discredited claim that Saddam was trying to buy "Yellow Cake" Uranium from Niger came from the Pentagon, specifically from Paul Wolfowitz < http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold.php?articleid=1913 >, using information the CIA stated was unreliable. Wolfowitz, and his assistant Douglas Feith, set up a special office called the "Office of Special Plans" in 2001, that fed information to the White House to urge the attack on Iraq. Shortly after the invasion, the OSP was disbanded.

So, the trail of the lies that started a war goes from the White House, to the Pentagon, to the Office of Special Plans. But where was the OSP getting their information? Clearly, they were not using information provided by the CIA, or the CIA would not have denounced their cources as "unreliable". According to some reports, the OSP was using "consultants" who came from outside the Pentagon and operated with no oversight or accountability! < http://rightweb.irc-online.org/analysis/2004/0402osp.php >

The Office of Special Plans operated on its own, off the official payroll and away from Congressional oversight < http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html >. According to several sources, it was the information given out by the Office of Special Plans that Dick Cheney "encouraged" the the CIA to adopt! So where does the trail lead from the OSP?

As it turns out, the OSP was getting their information from primarily two sources. The first was Ahmed Chalabi, the bank embezzler who would be king and didn’t care how it came about. < http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030707&s=dreyfuss >

The second, and more damning source, is the office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon! As the Office of Special Plans poured out the lies that led to war, Israeli officers, up to the rank of General, were repeatedly escorted inside the Pentagon to the Office of Special Plans < http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0807-02.htm > . At no time were they required to sign in!

Douglas Feith would then take this information, despite CIA doubts about the credibility of the claims, into private briefings at the White House that bypassed CIA. < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07
/11/wsept11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/11/ixnewstop.html ... > In some cases, the CIA was unaware of Feith’s private briefings until the OSP information became part of White House public policy.

So, this is the trail of the lies that started a war, beginning at the White House, and via Dick Cheney moving upstream to the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, under Wolfowitz and Feith, then from OSP to a parallel group operating out of Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel.

That’s the trail.

See also: The Path To War:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/pathtowar.html

Forum posts

  • Cheney and the rest of these crimminals should be tried for their war crimes and hung in the public square like Mussolini, for all of the people to beat with rocks and sticks for what he and Bushco have done to this country and to Iraq.

    • People in this country DO NOT want to know the truth. It shatters their fantasy of what the U.S. really is about. Articles like this and the one on Iraqgate make it hard to continue to spread lies and hide behind them. It makes them feel foolish for believing their government, not a comfortable place. It just feels so much better to hear no truth, see not truth, speak no truth. It is so much more enjoyable to live in the Hollywood version of the U.S.

    • It has recently come to light that the government is employing disinformation agents to troll the website blogs and plant false information. These paid trolls are appearing all over the internet and people should be warned and aware. Propaganda all is phony.

    • Well said. And could we please have a few lamp posts kept spare for Blair, Straw and Hoon please because these are three loathsome lying creatures without a compassionate bone in their bodies. They lied then and they lie now. They are beneath contempt.... Hang on, can we have another two for Howard and Aznar..... These people could walk under a snakes belly - they are the lowest of the low.

  • I agree with the poster who said Americans DON’T want to know the truth and prefer the Hollywood version. It’s interesting that the recent crash of the Bulgarian helicopter was attributed to enemy fire. This truthful admission was due to the fact that there were only civilians in it. If it had been a military helicopter, the usual lie of "bad weather" or the handy "sandstorm" would have been cited as the cause. There is definitely heavy news management going on when it comes to U.S. military casualties. And, since most of the media types there are now holed up in the Green Zone, there is no independent check on what the Pentagon has to say.

    Even when the truth does get out, like the recent company-strength attack on a U.S. installation, the military spins it as "desperation" on the part of the freedom fighters. Some desperation! Even a fool can see through the spin that the "terrorists" are becoming more organized and effective in their operations against the occupiers of their country.

    • Welcome to a "Fair and balanced" view of the world :-) There’s only one fox that needs hunting down and it doesn’t have a tail.

    • At our house we just call them Fake News, because that is all they have to offer. And those disgusting slobbering pundents are enough to make you gag.