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Tom Hartman here with you on this day 18 years ago an obscure

fundamentalist with about 5,000 followers attacked the United States.

George W Bush used this attack on the United States

to lie us into a war with Iraq and to make Halliburton rich and to give himself political capital

to get re-elected in 2004. In fact he signaled that this was coming and as

Valerie Plame pointed out this was something that was laid out by his brother, Jeb, one of the

signatories to the Project for a New American Century, back in 1998, when they sent a letter

to then President Bill Clinton saying you need to attack Iraq but we

realize that probably there won't be enough public support for an attack on

Saddam Hussein in Iraq until there is a Pearl Harbor style event.

It literally says that in their letter to Bill Clinton

in their overall document about how this needs to happen.

And George Bush then said in 1999 to his biographer Mickey

Herskowitz, this is Cindy Sheehan testifying before the House of

Representatives.

As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalists and longtime Bush family friend Mickey Herskowitz,

then Governor George Bush stated,

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