The Enemies of Peace ?

[kentuck]

Did George Bush pursue all options to settle the Iraq situation without violence? The spokesman for the WH, Scott McClelland says all "credible" avenues for peace were exhausted. But a top "former" Pentagon official says that is not so. (Was it Richard Perle?) He says he was asked not to pursue a possible negotiated peace deal days before the invasion.

As we know, the US troops had been clustering in Kuwait and on the borders of Iraq before the war. In fact, some troops were already in Iraq in the northern areas. So did Bush spurn the possibility of peace in favor of war? What does that say about the troops that might now be alive if Bush had chosen a different route?
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But Richard Perle, the then chairman of the Defense Policy Advisory Board, said in the weeks leading up to war with Iraq, he told the CIA but they refused the plan to meet with Iraqi officials to discuss a possible peace deal along the lines of the plan outlined by Hage to ABCNEWS.

"Although I was not enthusiastic about the offer, I was willing to meet with the Iraqis," Perle told ABCNEWS. "The United States government told me not to." Perle would not disclose which official or arm of the government rejected the talks.


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/hage031105-1.html

[Q]

1. The Bush Gang wanted to ATTACK Iraq since Clinton was in office...

...you can find their letters to Clinton still on the PNAC website.

- This 'war' isn't being fought with the 'informed consent' of the people...since they've never been given the whole truth.