Who, What, When, Where, Why & How: The Iraq War Scheme, hatched at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Yes, it was a Conspiracy, not merely Bush responding to Events as his Apologists would have us believe. What took al Qaeda so long to figure this out!

Tariq Ali, "We don't even know to this day whether al-Qaeda was behind Benazir Bhutto's killing. I'm amazed to see headlines in quite a lot of Western newspapers. There is no evidence for it." - Tabacco: Accidental Death MSM reports are even worse!

FAWAZ A. GERGES: Overwhelming no. of insurgents are Iraqis. al Qaeda a tiny, critical component, less than 5%, while very lethal, in fact, the US faces highly complex and determined tens of thousands insurgency; most have nothing to do with al Qaeda.

Fisk “first war I’ve ever covered, leadership bases its policies on own lies. It's one thing to lie to people, then have your own policy, but to pursue war on basis of lies you're telling, this is entirely new concept in war & foreign policy.”

The US government considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but several former US diplomats sat down with the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Lebanon earlier this year. Bush suffers from the “Clarence Thomas Syndrome” re terrorism.

Iran: There's more to fear than nuclear bombs now. The U.S. & Britain have gone ballistic over Iran's purchase of 800 .50-caliber sniper rifles that can penetrate body armor or a Humvee from a mile away & shoot down a helicopter.

9/15/01 Wolfowitz argues now perfect time to move against Iraq. Powell argues int’l coalition would only come together for attack on Al Qaeda & Taliban in Afghanistan ..Council votes with Powell. Rumsfeld abstains. Bush: Iraq comes later.

President Bush was notified 10 days after 9/11 attacks. U.S. intelligence had no evidence linking Iraq to al Qaeda or attacks. According to several current and former government officials, little evidence has emerged to contradict assessment