Secret wars waged behind our backs!
This is an article which indicates the Iraq war actually began way before the Administration said it was 'still negotiating'.
From Signs of the Times, Wednesday June 22:
"Secret" Air Base for Iraq War started prior 9-11
by Duke1676
This is great investigative work, and further evidence that Bush and the neocons were planning pre-emptive military action long before September 11th, and no matter what WMD intelligence revealed--Chris
With a small ceremony on April 26, 2003, control of Prince Sultan Air Base was handed back to the government of Saudi Arabia. Since the mid-nineties it had been the premier US air base in the region and the nerve center for all air force operations in the Gulf. As the home of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), the base was the primary command and control facility responsible for orchestrating the air campaigns for both Operation Southern Watch in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
The timing of the closing of PSAB seemed odd, coming just weeks after the official start of military actions in Iraq. It should have, at the very least, caused unwanted logistical problems for the Pentagon and regional commanders, but it didn't. A contingency plan had long been in the works, not only for Prince Sultan Air Base, but also for the entire map of the Middle East, including Iraq.
Long before the US pullout, a new home for the operations had secretly been built in the deserts of Qatar. What had been in October 2001 "nothing more than a runway and a field of sand covered by two-dozen tents and a few warehouses", the Al Udeid Air Base was transformed in a few short months into one of the largest air bases in the world.
Published reports and official DOD statements claimed that the amazing transformation was the result of the heroic response of US servicemen to the tragedy of 9-11. A determined military had beaten indeterminate odds to transform a barren wasteland into a state of the art military base in order to "take the war to the terrorists".
The true story of the building of Al-Udeid is actually quite different. The planning for the mammoth base had in fact taken place long before Sept. 11, and actual work on the base began as early as the spring of 2001. The building of Al Udeid turns out not to be a "miracle in the desert" in response to a heinous attack, as touted by the military, but rather a required step on the path to regime change in Iraq.
It has long been accepted knowledge that the Bush Administration was working feverishly towards regime change in Iraq during the 18-month period between 9-11 and the official start of the war in March of 2003. The Downing St Minutes confirmed that the Administration was set on a path to war at least as early as mid-summer of 2002. The accounts of Paul O'Neil and Richard Clarke verified that Iraq was a front burner issue for the Administration from the very first day, and only intensified after the attacks. Yet finding hard evidence to prove that planning for the war in Iraq was taking place prior to 9-11 has been hard to find. A look at the building of Al Udied can provide that evidence. [...]
And now it seems as if 'they' are doing it again!
Right now it is reported (by Scott Ritter, who apparently has some good sources) that there are operating in Iran various teams of 'agents' who are there to reconnoiter, enlist the aid of 'dissident' Iranians and generally perform 'pre-invasion' operations for the 'coalition'.
Not only are they violating the sovereignity of a nation which has not threatened anyone at all, but these are the very same brutal and vicious mercenaries used by Saddam Hussein himself to do his dirty work! But now, they are not working for that brutal 'former dictator', but for the good old 'Champions of Freedom, Democracy and Justice - the US Government!
It lools as if the Iranian War has already begun!
It is also reported that the US is continuing to build and staff an extremely large base in Azerbaijan. This would ensure the least possible distance for US planes and ground-forces to have to travel in their march on Teheran!
This is what I am currently seeing, and it is not always 'pleasant'. But it is mostly True as far as I can tell.
From Signs of the Times, Wednesday June 22:
"Secret" Air Base for Iraq War started prior 9-11
by Duke1676
This is great investigative work, and further evidence that Bush and the neocons were planning pre-emptive military action long before September 11th, and no matter what WMD intelligence revealed--Chris
With a small ceremony on April 26, 2003, control of Prince Sultan Air Base was handed back to the government of Saudi Arabia. Since the mid-nineties it had been the premier US air base in the region and the nerve center for all air force operations in the Gulf. As the home of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), the base was the primary command and control facility responsible for orchestrating the air campaigns for both Operation Southern Watch in Iraq and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
The timing of the closing of PSAB seemed odd, coming just weeks after the official start of military actions in Iraq. It should have, at the very least, caused unwanted logistical problems for the Pentagon and regional commanders, but it didn't. A contingency plan had long been in the works, not only for Prince Sultan Air Base, but also for the entire map of the Middle East, including Iraq.
Long before the US pullout, a new home for the operations had secretly been built in the deserts of Qatar. What had been in October 2001 "nothing more than a runway and a field of sand covered by two-dozen tents and a few warehouses", the Al Udeid Air Base was transformed in a few short months into one of the largest air bases in the world.
Published reports and official DOD statements claimed that the amazing transformation was the result of the heroic response of US servicemen to the tragedy of 9-11. A determined military had beaten indeterminate odds to transform a barren wasteland into a state of the art military base in order to "take the war to the terrorists".
The true story of the building of Al-Udeid is actually quite different. The planning for the mammoth base had in fact taken place long before Sept. 11, and actual work on the base began as early as the spring of 2001. The building of Al Udeid turns out not to be a "miracle in the desert" in response to a heinous attack, as touted by the military, but rather a required step on the path to regime change in Iraq.
It has long been accepted knowledge that the Bush Administration was working feverishly towards regime change in Iraq during the 18-month period between 9-11 and the official start of the war in March of 2003. The Downing St Minutes confirmed that the Administration was set on a path to war at least as early as mid-summer of 2002. The accounts of Paul O'Neil and Richard Clarke verified that Iraq was a front burner issue for the Administration from the very first day, and only intensified after the attacks. Yet finding hard evidence to prove that planning for the war in Iraq was taking place prior to 9-11 has been hard to find. A look at the building of Al Udied can provide that evidence. [...]
And now it seems as if 'they' are doing it again!
Right now it is reported (by Scott Ritter, who apparently has some good sources) that there are operating in Iran various teams of 'agents' who are there to reconnoiter, enlist the aid of 'dissident' Iranians and generally perform 'pre-invasion' operations for the 'coalition'.
Not only are they violating the sovereignity of a nation which has not threatened anyone at all, but these are the very same brutal and vicious mercenaries used by Saddam Hussein himself to do his dirty work! But now, they are not working for that brutal 'former dictator', but for the good old 'Champions of Freedom, Democracy and Justice - the US Government!
It lools as if the Iranian War has already begun!
It is also reported that the US is continuing to build and staff an extremely large base in Azerbaijan. This would ensure the least possible distance for US planes and ground-forces to have to travel in their march on Teheran!
This is what I am currently seeing, and it is not always 'pleasant'. But it is mostly True as far as I can tell.
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