{"id":1422,"date":"2012-03-24T09:52:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2012-07-03T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T23:26:07","slug":"launching-the-u-s-terror-war-the-cia-911-afghanistan-and-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9\/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Prof. Peter Dale\u00c2\u00a0 Scott<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Terror War was formally declared by George W. Bush on the evening of September 11, 2001, with his statement to the American nation that &#8220;we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.&#8221;<sup>3<\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But the notion that Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s terror war was in pursuit of actual terrorists lost credibility in 2003, when it was applied to Saddam Hussein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iraq, a country known to have been targeted by terrorists but not to have harbored them.<sup>4<\/sup> It lost still more credibility with the 2005 publication in Britain of the so-called Downing Street memo, in which the head of the British intelligence service MI6 reported after a visit to Washington in 2002 that &#8220;Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the <em>intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy<\/em>.&#8221;<sup>5<\/sup> False stories followed in due course linking Iraq to WMD, anthrax, and Niger yellowcake (uranium).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/PrintArticle.php?articleId=29799\">(Entire article here)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Prof. Peter Dale\u00c2\u00a0 Scott Terror War was formally declared by George W. Bush on the evening of September 11, 2001, with his statement to the American nation that &#8220;we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.&#8221;3\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But the notion that Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s terror war was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}