September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

“I got the document here, on the website about Ron Suskind's book about Paul O'Neill, The Price of
Loyalty. It is the agenda for President Bush's first National Security Council meeting. The agenda is
stamped "January 31, 2001." That was less than two weeks after the inauguration. The purpose of the
meeting was "To review the current state-of-play (including a CIA briefing on Iraq) and to examine
policy questions on how to proceed." The third item on the agenda: "Tab C: Executive Summary:
Political-Military Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq Crisis."
This indicates that the Bush administration thought that planning for Post-Saddam Iraq was the most
important security issue they faced. Why else would it be the topic at the very first NSC meeting? It
would be a matter of interest to see what conclusions they reached "on how to proceed," but that
remains secret information.” [Question: What is this, and why is it important? trots.blogspot.com,
Sunday, May 29, 2005]
Morevover, the attack on Iraq was part of a larger strategy, as later related by four star
General Wesley Clark in his 2006 book, Winning Modern Wars:
"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had
time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This
was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven
countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan." [The Secrets
Clark Kept: What the General Never Told Us About the Bush Plan for Serial War, Sydney H.
Schanberg, The Village Voice, September 29, 2003]
Saddam Hussein threatened to break the US stranglehold on the oil market, which
required US Dollars as the reserve currency for trading oil. If he had been successful, the
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