All the President's Men

According to a new book by former Bush Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, a conservative Republican with real morals instead of the John Ashcroft fake kind, the Bush administration planned to invade Iraq even before September 11th. In fact, they had been planning it since a few days after Bush took office. From the article:

'"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," O'Neill told CBS, according to excerpts released Saturday by the network. '

'[Author of the book] Suskind said O'Neill and other White House insiders gave him documents showing that in early 2001 the administration was already considering the use of force to oust Saddam, as well as planning for the aftermath. "There are memos," Suskind told the network. "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq.'''

'Suskind cited a Pentagon document titled "Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," which, he said, 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. It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" O'Neill said.'

There's a special on CBS tonight about it. I hope to God we can finally flush the turd that is the Bush administration this year. We should probably charge them all with the murder of more than 500 American troops who've died for those Iraqi Oilfield Contracts, too.