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Now that we have introduced concepts that history students should well understand, we go to the Kuwait rescue war. The strategic objective was so painfully obvious that only a fool would call for a move onto Baghdad. The liberation of Kuwait was a phenomenal military victory rarely ever seen in history. And then when Schwarzkopf asked the political types for the terms of Iraqi surrender, well, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc were all back in Washington drinking champagne. They never bothered to plan for the peace.

Politicians literally threw away one of the world's most amazing military victories. Saddam moved on to massacre thousands - as even the US Army sat five miles away watching. Saddam then attempted to restart his weapons of mass destruction programs knowing full well his borders contained enemies who would hang him if he did not - especially Iran.

Back up a bit. What did we promise the Arab world after the Kuwait rescue? We promised to leave. We did not. The no fly zone and fully staffed US military bases dotted Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf countries, etc. We even located one full naval fleet headquarters right in Arab countries. And so in 1991, Muslim Brotherhood saw a new threat to the Arab world and Islam. Previously, Americans were not targets. They most definitely were now. We lied. US did not leave the holiest of Islamic countries.

The first attack was in 1993 on WTC 1. Technically, the 1st Tower should have collapsed upon the second tower. Due to construction superior to what was on paper, WTC 1 did not collapse. That faction of the Muslim Brotherhood disintegrated as this nation's #1 anti-terrorist investigator broke open the entire network - that faction of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Another faction was attempting to liberate Yemen from communists when they too saw the American's lie. Bin Laden was nothing more than a support operative who promoted himself as a great leader. His successes were mostly fictional. Only a few followed him until America lied about leaving. Suddenly bin Laden had credibility when he focuses on that American lie. And so an obscure radical faction, eventually forced to flee first to Sudan and later to Afghanistan, somehow managed to coordinate two simultaneous attacks on US embassies.

The US knew something was coming. The US just assumed it was coming elsewhere and made preparations elsewhere. As devastating as those attacks were, it harmed few Americans but harmed many native Kenyans and Tanzanians. The blow was that bin Laden, up to this point nothing more than a suspected money man, could be patient enough and sophisticated enough to get low intelligence extremists to be so destructive. Suddenly bin Laden was a new Muslim Brotherhood threat - and was doing something new - targetting America.

There were other Muslim Brotherhood groups. The attack on Kobe Towers. The massive Millennium New Years Day attacks that Clinton stopped by properly warning government officials AND empowered government anti-terrorists to stop those attacks. Clinton took the threat very seriously and promoted Richard Clark's anti-terrorist group to senior White House levels. We found the bomb intended for LAX in WA because the fat, black Custom officer was told to watch for suspicious activity (Clinton would read his PDBs). She called for backup and chased down a suspect who, in turn lead to suspected bombings in Montreal, Times Square New Years Eve, the Radisson Hotel in Amman Jordan, and others. The only attack not discovered (by empowered little government employees permitted to do their job) was the attack on the destroyer USS The Sullivans. That attack failed because terrorists put too much explosives in the boat; the boat sank.

Notice how terrorism fails when a president reads his PDBs and understands them.

Well now we get a president who does not read his memos AND ignored warnings that became known as 11 September. At least five separate FBI teams were on the trail of the 11 September plot. All were forced by senior officials to stop their investigations for various reasons. This administration had other political agendas. Two agents in Chicago who discovered the money trail were literally yelled at, "You will not open a criminal investigation." But the neocons had mistakes in history to fix. Even Richard Clark's anti-terrorist group was demoted from senior level where the bureacracy would first negotiate their recommendations.

Meanwhile, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfovich and other neocons who drank champaign instead of planning for Saddam's surrender realized how they would go down into history. They returned to office still viewing the world in terms of cold war adversaries. The anti-terrorist committee group was even removed from the White House since terrrorism was not part of that agenda. The nation's #1 anti-terrorist investigator (who broke the 1993 WTC attack and identified the USS Coles attackers) was driven from government service. First agenda was to fix the Saddam problem they had created. The terrorism that the mistake made was not considered strategically important. Even the 11 September Commission report makes it obvious.

When bin Laden created 11 September, these White House neocons needed a way to put their Iraq invasion plans back on track. As the UK memo points out, the US intended to attack Iraq long before - which is why neocons were looking for anything to blame Saddam for 11 September. The found gullible Americans who would even belive lies and myths about WMDs - and still today spin some details to prove they were right.

As a result of neocon political agenda, the US military never made a serious attempt to get bin Laden. Furthermore, any attempt was half baked - ill planned afterthoughts - that in Tora Bora literally violated military principles for such combat. Many good soldiers died there due to no long term planning at the highest levels.

The president's Jan 2002 State of the Union Address was rigged so that we would assume Saddam and bin Laden was a same enemy. Something like 70% of Americans intially fell for that lie. Bin Laden is still free because we never sent even one division to get him. The agenda was Saddam - to fix mistakes that neocons created in 1990. Even the UK memo noted that agenda. The attack on Saddam was a done deal long before we were moving troops. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfovich, etc had to fix their reputations - their 1990 mistake. Previously the US was not regarded as an enemy. The neocons mistake even turned Muslim Brotherhood attention against the US.

Now this is long. It cannot be put in to a sound byte. Therefore many readers have long since given up - looking for simpler reasons. There is no simpler answer. The Iraq invasion was planned and intended by the same neocons who also intend to fix the world - part of their larger plan that even includes complete mistrust of the Russians and Chinese (remember the shooting war we almost started with China over a silly spy plane? Thank Colin Powell for finally stifling the American neocons who were openly advocating war with China).

The other two neocon invasion targets are Iran and North Korea. (Why was Syria not put on the list? Syria was a secret ally of the US providing substanical intelligence information about Saddam et al - until we lied about and attacked Sadam.) Only incompetent leaders in both countries would not be building nuclear weapons. America, a country that now condones torture, also intends to unilaterally attack both nations. We said so in the strategic objective defined in January 2002 - the axis of evil. Many did not really believe the US would abandon a well proven doctrine of containment to do what Tojo and Hitler did - unprovoked and unjustified war on another sovereign nation without either a declaration of war or the approval of the UN.

Now that we unilaterally attacked a sovereign nation (Pearl Harbor style), you can damn well bet Iran and N Korea are building numerous defensive WMDs as any responsible nation would do.

There is no mystery to all this - unless you have a political agenda. Extremists will nit pick these lessons of history to no end. Some are still trying to justify their support of a lie about WMDs. But as evidence continues to come forth - from aluminum tubes that were never appropriate for WMD production, to the various factions of Muslim Brotherhood, and latest is a memo written for Tony Blair - this administration intends to fix the world pre-emptively. This administration has decided to force democracy on other nations as part of a larger plan. And yes, even the Caspian Sea Oil pipeline was strategically located based upon a geo-political plan that has been making Russia's Putin very nervous. Don't fool yourself. This administration has a game plan that included fixing their mistakes, getting more oil (instead of innovating), making allies only for our strategic interests, and masking it all with some nonsense about righteousness, Christian values, and democracy.

We know where they intend to go. Troop movements and military base construction has long been in progress for a future Iran invasion. Why do we have so many bases in all those Kha-stan nations in Central Asia? Under George Jr, we intend to fix the world as if it were a white man's burden - and so that we can get more oil - a strategically necessary entity for a country that advocates more consumption, fixing the world by force, less scientific innovation, and more active military-geo-political solutions (pre-emption) in direct opposition to the well proven strategy of containment (prevention).

Believe me. This is the very abridged version.