Truth revealed - Gulf War 2 Planned Way Before 9/11

[DOGG]

The Bush Administration began making plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001 -- not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks, as has been previously reported.

That's what former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says in his first interview about his time as a White House insider.
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Suskind says O'Neill and other White House insiders he interviewed gave him documents that show that in the first three months of 2001, the administration was looking at military options for removing Saddam Hussein from power and planning for the aftermath of Saddam's downfall -- including post-war contingencies such as peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals and the future of Iraq's oil.
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A Pentagon document, says Suskind, titled "Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," outlines areas of oil exploration. "It talks about contractors around the world from...30, 40 countries, and which ones have what intentions on oil in Iraq," Suskind says.

Whole article here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml

[Asmodeus]

Actually, the planning has been durin gthe clinton administration, and before. Most major nations have plans tucked away for invasions of most countries and many other scenarios.. thats part of a functioning military's job.

[rosamund]

Originally posted by DOGG
...plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops...

They were going to use American troops in an American Invasion? Hey, no fair!!!

[DOGG]

Originally posted by Asmodeus
Actually, the planning has been durin gthe clinton administration, and before. Most major nations have plans tucked away for invasions of most countries and many other scenarios.. thats part of a functioning military's job.

Actually as i recall clinton rejected the idea of invading which PNAC (who'se members are in charge of government today) was trying to push at the time he was in charge. That and dick cheney's energy taskforce had detailed plans of iraq's oil infrastructure and was responsible for bush's national energy policy.

[Scythe]

Like Asmodeus said, just because a particular administration has no plans to invade a particular country, it's still the military's job to have a plan ready if such a situation develops. I imagine that, buried somewhere in the Pentagon, are possible plans for the invasion of most of the worlds major nations, including ostensible partners and allies such as Canada, Japan and Mexico.

[svvampy]

Originally posted by Scythe
....possible plans for the invasion of most of the worlds major nations, including ostensible partners and allies such as Canada, Japan and Mexico.

Of course there would be no plan needed for Australia, just a post-it to the effect of "Tell the indonesians we don't care where they want to send their hordes" or "Stop talking to the Aussies and stop sending them our shit and watch 99% of them implode in a cultural vacuum, and slaughter the unaffected few"

[Buffalo]

Originally posted by Asmodeus
Actually, the planning has been durin gthe clinton administration, and before. Most major nations have plans tucked away for invasions of most countries and many other scenarios.. thats part of a functioning military's job.

It may be the military's job to plan for invasions, but not the political leader's.

The facts of the matter are that Bush and his advisors came up with the objective of removing Sadam from power long before there were the motivations provided by 9/11 and terrorism.

Obviously he had other reasons as well for invading Iraq. Of course the most obvious ones are financial, but it will be interesting to see what develops.

I could be wrong - he may have been privy to information that justified planning an invasion of Iraq (no sarcasm intended)

[Haalen]

The planning effort was done by Brown & Root Services (BRS)* under a task order issued under the Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) contract. The Commander, CENTCOM, identified a requirement for contingency planning for repairing and providing for continuity of operations of the Iraqi oil infrastructure. This included planning for extinguishing oil well fires and assessing damage to oil facilities in the immediate aftermath of hostilities. The competitively awarded LOGCAP contract is used to develop plans to address such requirements of Combatant Commanders. When a specific plan is needed, a task order is issued under the LOGCAP contract.
- The Army Field Support Command also issued a letter contract to the planning contractor, BRS, that was primarily for pre-positioning of fire fighting equipment and the staffing and training of damage assessment teams that could be ready to deploy on short notice. This effort was necessary to enable rapid response to oil well fires. The estimated cost plus fixed fee of this contract is $37.5 million.

*The government contracted with BRS to perform the planning effort because BRS is the Army's contractor for the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). The LOGCAP contract is used to develop plans to address such requirements of Combatant Commanders. When a specific plan is needed, a task order is issued under the contract. The current LOGCAP contract was awarded to BRS on December 14, 2001


Source, straight from the US Army Corp of Engineers Web Site (http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/iraq/factsheet.htm)