��� Everything We're Doing Now Was Planned BEFORE 9/11� :����� Information Clearing House: ICH

��� Everything We're Doing Now Was Planned BEFORE 9/11� :����� Information Clearing House: ICH: "* The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this)

* The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted 'crap' in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill - who sat on the National Security Council - also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. Top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change even before Bush took office. And in 2000, Cheney said a Bush administration might 'have to take military action to forcibly remove Saddam from power.''

* Cheney apparently even made Iraqi's oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. And the Sunday Herald reported: 'Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq ... to secure control of its oil.' (remember that Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others all say that the Iraq war was really about oil.)

* The Patriot Act was planned before 9/11. Indeed, former Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke told Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig:"