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[A]t that meeting [on the afternoon of 9/11/2001 -ed], Rumsfeld was already thinking of using the atrocities as an excuse to go to war with Iraq. It’s important to stress: Rumsfeld is not wondering if Iraq did it; he’s wondering if it can look enough like Iraq did it to pin the blame there.
It can’t be stressed enough: the Pentagon was aflame; there was smoke pouring from a hole in the Pennsylvania fields and the World Trade Center complex was belching its ghastly cloud, and already our rulers were thinking not, who is to blame? but what can we get away with? What will the still-bubbling fat of the murdered serve to cook?
These people are just gangsters and criminals. Here are the handwritten notes:
Best info fast
judge whether good enough
Hit S.H@ same time –
Not just UBL
[ . . . ]
Near term target needs –
– go massive – sweep it all up
– Things related & not
Doesn’t sound much like a well-reasoned, deliberative approach . . .
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