From: Press TV
‘Bush team wanted Iraq war from start’
Declassified documents have reveled that advisors to former US president George W. Bush had focused on justifying a new war on Iraq as soon as he took office.
Official document released on Wednesday show that a few hours after the 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of attacking Iraq.
Papers posted by the Washington-based National Security Archive shows Rumsfeld discussing war plans for Iraq just two months after the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan.
In memos dated November 27, he had listed justifications for the war on Iraq. …
The documents released under a Freedom of Information request also show that White house claims of Iraq pursuing a nuclear weapons program based on confiscated aluminum tubes were also fabricated.
The news was released even before a preliminary assessment of the tubes, two State Department memos to then Secretary of State Colin Powell say.
The announcement had to be made “in our advantage” and it was important to “get the right story out” about the tubes, one memo stated.