{"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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-mW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1344,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1344","url_meta":{"origin":1422,"position":0},"title":"While Americans shopped, the Constitution was shredded","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"December 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.brasschecktv.com\/videos\/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud\/while-americans-shopped-the-constitution-was-shredded.html President Barack Obama faced a civil liberties backlash today after he signed a law that will allow terror suspects to be held indefinitely- even raising the prospects of U.S. citizens being sent to Guantanamo Bay. 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