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April 18th, 2004
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Bush Planned Iraq War While Still in the Womb |
Future President Met With Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld During Third Trimester
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Above: An unborn Bush allegedly plots war on Iraq |
Politics - George W. Bush was planning his war against Iraq as early as 1946, when he was still in his mother's womb, a new book by reporter Bob Goldstein claims. If true, the allegation contradicts the President's insistence that he did not enter the White House, much less the world, with a preconceived intention of attacking Iraq.
Goldstein's story is based on anonymous sources close to the Bush family, who recounted "mysterious" meetings in 1946 between a pregnant Barbara Bush, five-year-old Dick Cheney, nine-year-old Colin Powell and 13-year-old Donald Rumsfeld. At these meetings, Goldstein writes, the four future leaders hatched their strategy to wage war against Saddam Hussein - then only nine.
President Bush has flatly denied the charges, saying that during the months before his birth he was "completely focused on the gestation process" and did not have time to plot a war against Iraq. In a press release, the President's mother said that access to her uterus was "restricted to only the most trusted individuals" at that time, but did not state whether Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld were among those individuals.
Bush himself does not deny meeting with his future Cabinet members and Vice-President while still in the womb, but says that the four only discussed "pre-natal issues," not politics.
The President has refused to release minutes from these meetings, citing "fetal privilege."
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| Bush insists that, in the months before his birth, he was "completely focused on the gestation process." |
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Goldstein claims that while the future President was busily developing a viable heart and lungs, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell were advising him on how to open Middle Eastern oil markets to American corporations by establishing a "democratic" puppet regime in Iraq. They also advised Bush to come out head-first.
The conspirators proceeded to split up the task of engineering the overthrow of Iraq. Rumsfeld's job was to manipulate political events in Iraq to ensure that, by the end of the century, the country would be ruled by a violent dictator who could be attacked with justification. Powell was assigned to make certain that the U.N. would be too weak to interfere with U.S. aggression. Cheney's task was to ensure that U.S. oil companies would be positioned to take advantage of the newly opened petroleum markets. Future Bush advisor Karl Rove, born in 1950, was later recruited to spearhead Bush's election as President. Bush himself had the task of signing the order to send the troops.
Over the following decades, the conspirators all accomplished their tasks, although Bush reportedly required assistance from Cheney.
Some sources say that the conspiracy also involved Ronald Reagan, whom the group allegedly called upon to develop a detailed plan for postwar Iraq and counterinsurgency, in spite of Reagan's reputation for terrible penmanship.
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