Shenon: Zelikow Designed Bush Administration’s Pre-Emptive War Doctrine In 2002
Shenon: Zelikow Designed Bush Administration’s Pre-Emptive War Doctrine In 2002
In his new book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon alleges that 9/11 Commission staff director Philip Zelikow had an obvious conflict of interest while serving on the panel.
Zelikow allegedly scaled back criticisms of the White House and did not inform the Commission he helped Condoleezza Rice set up Bush’s National Security Council in 2001. Zelikow also held periodic discussions with Karl Rove, which he ordered his secretary to keep off-the-record. He also helped “demote” Richard Clarke, a vocal critic of the administration’s counterterrorism policies.
This weekend on CSPAN’s Book TV, Shenon bolstered the case that Zelikow was inextricably tied to the administration. Shenon said Zelikow authored the September 2002 National Security Strategy (NSS), which outlined the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war and helped make the case for the invasion of Iraq:
Zelikow was the author of a very important document issued by the White House in Sept. 2002 that really turned military doctrine on its head and said that the United States could become involved in pre-emptive war, pre-emptive defense, that we could attack a nation that didn’t pose an immediate military threat to this country.
And obviously in September 2002, it sure appeared that document was being written with one target in mind: Iraq.
Watch it:
The author of the NSS at the time was anonymous, Shenon explained. Commission members, including Chairmen Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton reportedly did not know Zelikow authored it when the Commission was created in December 2002. Only in the “final months” of the investigation did members discover this fact.
Zelikow’s White House ties were so pronounced that former senator Bob Kerrey threated to Kean, “It’s either him or me. Zelikow goes, or I go.” In the interview, Shenon concluded that Zelikow’s authorship of of the pre-emptive strategy “appeared to pose yet another conflict of interest for Zelikow.”
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911 was an inside job. think bushco told the truth about it?
yes, sure, ive got some ocean front property in nashville, tn i’ll sell ya dirt cheap too!
March 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pmHow dare you question the ethics, competence or patriotism of a Republican. Just another example of liberal bias on the internet. We all know that the Republicans are God’s chosen people to run the government and the earth. This was not undue influence or conflict of interest, it was the spreading of the truth by one of God’s servants.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pmMossad, not Bush = 9/11.
Bush wasn’t capable of such an elaborate plot.
Lieberman & Chertoff? Hmmm…
March 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pmWe need to support our brave veterans who will be testifying about the torture and desecration of Iraqi bodies that were order from higher up. Gathering of Eagles is threatening them. Please go to their site and support this testimony of truth any way that you can.
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March 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pmIs it Friday.? Damn I thought it was a Monday, shit there all the same these day’s….Ton’s of distracting new’s while cheney run’s to the saudis to play….Blessings
March 10th, 2008 at 5:08 pmCrackpot realists
March 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pmFrom WashPost:
(Douglas Feith’s new book “War and Decision”) reveals that at a December 18, 2002 meeting of the National Security Council, Bush said “war is inevitable” — weeks before UN weapons inspectors were to issue their findings on Iraq and months before Bush delivered an ultimatum to Baghdad.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:12 pmWe know that 911 was an inside job now. Zelikow is Bush’s “sacred cow”.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:12 pmThe 911 commission was a hoax, pure and simple. It was the “biggest coverup in american history”. I can’t wait for the criminals to get their due.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:13 pmIncest, nepotism, collusion, and conflict of interest – just like Righty likes it.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pmjust like Righty likes it.
Comment by tombaker — March 10, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
What? No beastiality?
March 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pmI thought this was Think Progress not Think pulpet….Blessings
March 10th, 2008 at 5:18 pmI agree junior wasn’t capable of such an elaborate plot, not on his own by any means.
But he and others in this admin., including the subject of this thread and the vp, were definitely part of it.
I have an idea that even though they were part of it, played their part and knew it was on it’s way, that they were a bit double crossed.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pmPartly evidenced by the way he crapped in his pants while reading My Pet Goat.
FYI, I’ve updated my website with a new quote from Shenon’s book – perhaps his most explosive charge against the Bush administration. Check out the last “Update” here:
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
And judge for yourself.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:21 pmI’m sorry, but how is it that experienced politicians like Kean and Hamilton didn’t have any idea what Zelikow was?
March 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pmEvery dark corner of the Bush administration has piles of Rove turds in it. Not one has a flower growing on it.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:23 pmGot blankets?
March 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmSTOP CALLING IT A “WAR”
IT’S NOT A WAR……IT WAS AN INVASION AND IS NOW AN UNENDING OCCUPATION
March 10th, 2008 at 5:31 pmFeith reveals that Bush’s mind was made up long before the UN weapons inspectors were finished but he believes Rumsfeld had a brilliant Iraq plan, Bush was ill advised, not wrong, and Tommy Franks (and, correctly, Bremer) screwed it up. Of course, Franks had his own opinion of Feith. “the f’cking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.”
March 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pmWhenever we get a Texan president, we also get long drawn-out wars for Haliburton & (Kellogg) Brown & Root to profit from. See, Lyndon Johnson, Georgesr, and Georgejr. Coincidence?
And, rastaman is correct – this hasn”t been a WAR, since “Mission Accomplished”. Now, we’re just trying to protect our oil fields from “insurgents”.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pmZeliko was described on c-span as a BRILLIANT professor of History.
Keane and Hamilton probably gave him the benefit of the doubt that he was not acting as an agent of the Bush Administration.
No one thought the 911 commission would succeed in overcoming the partisanship of its members. The result was, in Shenon’s words a “NO Fault Commision Report. Facts but no finger pointing.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pmFrom the interview, however, it was clear to me that the Bush Administration seriously DOWNGRADED the threat of an Al Qaeda Attack. Clinton was extremely concerned with Al Qaeda…Bush put it on the back burner.
Hopefully this book will become a bestseller.
Isn’t Zellie thte one who also tried to discredit Richard Clark?
March 10th, 2008 at 5:51 pmOh yeah… it was him!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/07/david-kay-condi-rice/
March 10th, 2008 at 5:55 pmZeliko was described on c-span as a BRILLIANT professor of History.
Which is not a military advisor by any means. As for his pre-emptive idea its quite old.
They say men who are ignorant of history repeat it. Well I think we can throw that old addage away.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Room for one more at Den Hague??
March 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pm9-11 Commission was a complete fraud, a disgrace, a big f.u. to the American public and a slap in the face to the victims and their families.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:27 pmHow transparent! An anonymous author – how many ways can you spell fraud??
We need the 911 commission reopened to finally get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And, if we do, we will find that our very own administration was involved in some pretty unsavory ways.
Indict, Impeach, Incarcerate and Redo the bogus 911 commission report.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:08 pmI’m loving the fact that now the 911 coverup is coming front and center…just in time for Bush & Cheney to be impeached.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm9/11=Mossad? That’s just stupid. Mossad got the FBI to ignore the highjackers, even as one of their own informants was living with some of them? Mossad got the air force to stand down? Mossad forced Cheney to do its bidding? Mossad orchestrated the coverup by members of both parties in Washington? Not freakin’ likely. Mossad was likely part of the conspiracy, but to blame it all on them reeks of weakmindedness, or something worse.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pmI could believe that the Bush Administration was incompetent enough, and ideological enough , to allow the greatest National Security Failure in American History.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:46 pmI just don’t believe that Mossad is that incompetent. They can find and target individuals on the streets of Gaza.
…how could they not know what Richard Clarke knew…and more??
oh, but anyone who thinks theres still unanswered questions is a nutty conspiracy theorist.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:52 pmWell, since PNAC wrote a letter to then President Clinton (January 26, 1998) wanting to invade Iraq, and if you look at all the then (and now) people who are in PNAC or have signed onto PNAC’s ideas (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Kristol, John Bolton, Armaitage, Bennett, O’Hanlon, etc), is there any reason to think we would NOT invade Iraq?
Iraq was supposed to be the low hanging fruit. Quickly attack, invade and take their oil…then move on to Iran (Hmmm…hear those drums beating?) And we’re not winning in Iraq yet we are going to bomb and invade another country?
Brilliant idea. Simply friggin’ brilliant.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:29 pmIt was decided that we were going to invade Iraq about 10 days after 9/11
March 10th, 2008 at 9:32 pmCheck this interview with General Wesley Clark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARihMrxdjU
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9/11 was a PNAC job!
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March 11th, 2008 at 1:33 amMossad may have assisted in the crime, and could have went solo on the demolitions to give Larry Silverstein and his gang a hand. Bush was likely told as little as possible, he is basically just a figurehead, just like many of our Presidents. Responsibility though is homegrown, just like those anthrax attacks.
TWA 800 was a false flag attack in an attempt to get Clinton to go after Iraq in an election year, he covered up up and invented the fuel tank explosion, and when he would not give them a war, they hit him with Monica, so he caved, comproimised, and gave them Operation Desert Fox-Iraq, HR 4655-which authorized regime change against Iraq, and Operation Allied Force-Yugoslavia. There was plenty of time to plan for the post Clinton years. Bush was not involved in the planning, but his playing dumb or being dumb helps as a cover.
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