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A new book says a cabinet member proposed letting Saddam kill an American airman as
a pretext for war
General Hugh Shelton,
who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during parts of the Clinton and George W.
Bush administrations, has a new memoir out that contains this significant-seeming story: Back in
the late 1990s, Shelton says a member of Clinton's cabinet asked him to allow Saddam
Hussein to shoot down an American plane over Iraq as a pretext for starting a war. The way
Shelton tells the story, this was a serious request.
Remember, the context here is the Clinton Administration's years of trying to overthrow
Saddam -- including in a little-remembered 1996 CIA coup attempt. In December 1998 (most likely after the request was made
to Shelton), Clinton bombed Iraq for four days in Operation
Desert Fox, which Clinton said was a response to Saddam's lack of cooperation
with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Here's what happened shortly after Shelton became Joint Chiefs chair in October 1997,
according to his book:
Early on in my days as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, we had small, weekly White House breakfasts in National Security Advisor Sandy Berger's office that included me, Sandy, Bill Cohen (Secretary of Defense), Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State), George Tenet (head of the CIA), Leon Firth (VP chief of staff for security), Bill Richardson (ambassador to the U.N.), and a few other senior administration officials. These were informal sessions where we would gather around Berger's table and talk about concerns over coffee and breakfast served by the White House dining facility. It was a comfortable setting that encouraged brainstorming of potential options on a variety of issues of the day.
During that time we had U-2 aircraft on reconnaissance sorties over Iraq. These planes were designed to fly at extremely high speeds and altitudes (over seventy thousand feet) both for pilot safety and to avoid detection.
At one of my very first breakfasts, while Berger and Cohen were engaged in a sidebar discussion down at one end of the table and Tenet and Richardson were preoccupied in another, one of the Cabinet members present leaned over to me and said, "Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event - something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough - and slow enough - so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?"
The hair on the back of my neck bristled, my teeth clenched, and my fists tightened. I was so mad I was about to explode. I looked across the table, thinking about the pilot in the U-2 and responded, "Of course we can ..." which prompted a big smile on the official's face.
"You can?" was the excited reply.
"Why, of course we can," I countered. "Just as soon as we get your ass qualified to fly it, I will have it flown just as low and slow as you want to go."
The official reeled back and immediately the smile disappeared. "I knew I should not have asked that...."
"No, you should not have," I strongly agreed, still shocked at the disrespect and sheer audacity of the question. "Remember, there is one of our great Americans flying that U-2, and you are asking me to intentionally send him or her to their death for an opportunity to kick Saddam. The last time I checked, we don't operate like that here in America."
The way Shelton writes the story, the unnamed cabinet official could not have been Berger or Cohen. That leaves Albright and the other cabinet members as possible candidates. (10.15.2010, Justin Elliott) http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/15/clinton_official_iraq_hugh_shelton
[Ed. note: The clintons murdered the Davidians in 1993. hitlery gave the final order to "burn the motherf___ers." They were plotting to start another war with President Saddam Hussein under orders from their boss, george herbert walker bush. The plot to shoot down a U2 would have been carried out had Gen. Shelton gone along with it. Since he did not they had to forget about it or murder the general. Daddy bush decided to go with something more spectacular and his brainstormers came up with the 911 attack. bill might have had knowledge of it because he was out of the country, but hitlery did not. she was in NYC at the time of the false flag attack. she quickly learned that it was a false flag attack. If you do not know what a false flag event is all about do some research. Study theOperation Northwoods plan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwoods. Also study the article on false flag operations - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag and covert operations - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_operation. It is time to WAKE UP and realize that the criminals in government want to kill you not help you.]
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