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original justification for Iraq2 was they supported Al-Qaeda ... when
that was invalidated, they changed to WMDs and it would only cost $50B.
Two wars estimate is now over $5T, more than 100 times greater (when
long term veteran care & benefits are taken into account).

I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/opinion/trump-iran-war.html

CIA director Colby refuses to approve "Team B" analysis claiming huge
Russian military capability, justifying huge US military spending
increase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B

White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld replaces Colby with somebody (Bush1)
that will aggree with "Team B" analysis. Rumsfeld then resigns to become
SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistent Cheney).

In the 80s, Bush1 is VP and Rumsfeld is involved in supporting Iraq, US
support Iraq in the iran/iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War
including supplying WMDs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war

In the early 90s, Bush1 is president and Cheney is SECDEF. Sat. photo
recon analyst told white house that saddam was marshaling forces to
invade Kuwait. White house said that saddam would do no such thing and
proceeded to discredit the analyst. Later the analyst informed the white
house that saddam was marshaling forces to invade Saudi Arabia, now the
white house has to choose between saddam and the Saudis.
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/

This century, Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and
one of the "Team B" members is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of
Iraq policy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs (tracing back
to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been decommissioned. the cousin shared
it with Card, Powell and others ... then is locked up in military
hospital, book was published in 2010 (after being releaased and before
decommissioned WMDs were declassified)
http://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/

NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
and military-industrial-complex wanted a war so badly that corporate
reps were telling former eastern block countries that if they voted for
IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in NATO and
(directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for purchase of
modern US arms). From the law of unintended consequences, the invaders
were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when they got aroundto
going back, over a million metric tons had evaporated.
http://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA

Also back in the 80s, Former CIA director and then VP repeatedly claimed
that he knew nothing about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260

this decade, another family member presides over the economic mess 70
times larger than the S&L crises. S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal
referrals and 1000 criminal convictions with jailtime, proportionally
the economic mess should have 2.1M criminal referrals and 70,000
criminal convictions with jailtime.

note both 80s SECSTATE and SECDEF were Bechtel executives ... helping
their (former) employer do business in the middle east. "The Profiteers:
Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World" ... Bechtel is also part of the
massive uptic in gov. outsourcing last decade
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/

VP has become president and Iran/Contra prosecutors are working with
former SECDEF on evidence ... including against the sitting
president. The president then "pardons" the former SECDEF. loc2752-54:

Pollard had accidentally "busted the most secret White House operation
of modern times," as one account put it. "Neither Pollard nor the
government of Israel was aware that they had smashed George Bush's first
shipment of arms to Iran."

loc2764-65:

Despite his best efforts to silence Pollard, Weinberger would not escape
his own entanglement in the Iran-Contra conspiracy, for which he would
ultimately face criminal charges.

... snip ...

then a bunch of evidence is turned over (that the president had
"forgotten" about) showing he was heavily involved in Iran/Contra

Part of the enormous outsourcing last decade ... 70% of the intelligence
budget and over half the people ... including Snowden and others
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
accelerating the rapidly spreading "Success of Failure" culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

The Profiteers, about hanford, loc4296-98:

In 2000 Bechtel received the $4.3 billion deal for the cleanup, which
the company estimated would cost $14 billion to complete. But eleven
years later, with the job still uncompleted, Bechtel predicted that the
final cost would be more than $120 billion.

... and about outsourcing of DOE labs (to Bechtel), loc4288-91:

A congressional commission, led by former undersecretary of the army
Norman Augustine and retired admiral Richard Mies, concluded in 2014
that the privatization of the nuclear weapons laboratories had resulted
in a "dysfunctional management and operations relationship," and "uneven
collaboration with customers"--the "customers" being the DOE.

... snip ...

Note only about 2/3rds of defense budget show up in DOD ... there is
about anther 1/3rd of defense budget that show up in places like DOE.