Bad news for puppet govt.; Bushhawks try to widen war

[Wayne Johnson]

I  think it is a good, no, a great idea!

Some potential names:

Tejas del Este
Bushistan
Charley McCarthystan
George (named for Pauls' hairdo)(Or was it Ringo?)

We could have a  CONTEST!

NAME OUR PUPPET STATE IN THE REGION FORMERLY KNOWN AS AFGHANISTAN.

Win a Free Trip to Kabul!

(Vaccinations NOT provided)

The possibilities are endless...but probably finite.

B.

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Setting up a US-sponsored puppet government in Afghanistan sounds
like a real nice way to extract ourselves from our predicament
in theory -- until you understand the practical realities:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52236-2001Oct12.html


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http://www.dawn.com/2001/10/13/latest1.htm


13 October 2001  Saturday  25 Rajab 1422


Hawks try to implicate Iraq by hunting for evidence in UK

A row has broken out in the Bush administration after it was revealed that
hawks
in the Pentagon had sent an ex-CIA director, James Woolsey, to Britain,
behind
the backs of the state department and the current CIA leadership.

News of Mr Woolsey's travels, have exposed a deep fissure inside the
administration
over whether to extend the war against terrorism to Iraq.

Last month, the state department, led by Colin Powell, convinced President
Bush
that there was no clear involvement in the attacks and that Iraq should not
be
included on the target list as such action might destroy the fragile
coalition.

However, hawks in the administration grouped around the deputy defence
secretary,
Paul Wolfowitz, are determined to ensure military action to topple Saddam
Hussein.

According to several sources in the U.S., Mr Wolfowitz paid for Mr Woolsey
to
travel to Britain last month to look for evidence of prior Iraqi involvement
in
terrorism.

Mr Woolsey is convinced that Iraq has orchestrated terrorist attacks on U.S.
interests in recent years.

The state department and the CIA are furious at Mr Woolsey's freelance
sleuthing
and Mr Wolfowitz's role. "This is against their own political agenda to bomb
Iraq,"
said one U.S. source with close links to intelligence.

A British official said on Friday that the police and British intelligence
were
"bemused" by Mr Woolsey's activities and had been unsure of U.S. government
awareness
about the matter.

According to the Knight Ridder news agency, the former CIA director was
looking for
evidence that a convicted terrorist known as Ramzi Youssef was an Iraqi
agent.

According to the prosecution in his trial, Ramzi Youssef was called Abdul
Basit, who
had studied in Swansea in the 1980s. Mr Woolsey believes that Basit was
abducted
by Iraqi intelligence and an agent took over his identity.

Mr Woolsey has refused to comment on his trips to the U.K. However, he
suggested that
he was constructing a legal case against Iraq.

The White House has left the door open to military action against Baghdad,
should conclusive evidence of Saddam's involvement emerge.

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