Why are people like Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz - whose crazed neo-con ideology has been behind every foreign policy blunder of the Bush administration (and there have been a lot of them!) - still allowed anywhere NEAR the White House?
Newsweek reports that days after 9/11:
"A senior Pentagon official lamented the lack of good targets in Afghanistan and proposed instead U.S. military attacks in South America or Southeast Asia as "a surprise to the terrorists," according to a footnote in the recent 9/11 Commission Report. The unsigned top-secret memo, which the panel's report said appears to have been written by Defense Under Secretary Douglas Feith, is one of several Pentagon documents uncovered by the commission which advance unorthodox ideas for the war on terror. The memo suggested "hitting targets outside the Middle East in the initial offensive" or a "non-Al Qaeda target like Iraq"..."
The fact that Iraq is specifically designated as a non-Al Quaeda target is quite amazing, because (a) it implies that they knew Al-Quaeda was behind 9/11, but (b) they were still prepared to attack other targets, and (c) just days after 9/11, it contradicts all the Saddam-al-Quaeda linkage they later conjured.
As an Australian, I find the idea that the USA could have attacked a country in South-east Asia particularly disturbing. Which country? Indonesia? Malaysia? What would our fearless PM John Howard have said to THAT???
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