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Fire Donating Member (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 07:00 PM
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U.S. Military Conspiracy to Provoke War With Cuba
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1

U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba

Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba

By David Ruppe

Sep. 30, 2004 - In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.



http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1


The fact that the Joint Chiefs would even concieve of something so reprehensible as murdering their own people and then going so far as to present them to the white house speaks volumes. This is disgusting.

If the government was willing to do it back in the '60s I would have no trouble believing that this kind of action has been thought upon or enacted in more recent times.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —George W. Bush

Bushism or candor?
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 07:45 PM
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1. Thank God the days of tricking the American public and the international
community into supporting a war are long gone: the MSM would expose every facet of the trickery.
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 08:27 PM
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2. You go, ABC--
Edited on Sun Jul-31-05 08:27 PM by snot
better 45 years late than never.

Maybe by 2050 they'll get around to investigating 9-11.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 09:46 PM
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4. like there's going to be anyone left to investigate it in 2050
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 09:45 PM
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3. ABC News? Hmm...
Maybe they're trying to psychologically prepare people for the truth of 9/11.
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-05 09:50 PM
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5. Check the date on this: "May 1, 2001"
If you are LIHOP/MIHOP minded, this sounded like a head's up...
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