Let me preface this by saying I was upset about his being canned as the Secretary of Treasury. He was a supporter of the FairTax, which I believe to be one of the greatest ideas for saving individual liberty and freedom, and is the best way of eliminating the intrusive income tax.
Mr. O'Neill is now flashing (quite illegally) classified documents that he shouldn't even had, had access to, or know about detailing the "planning of regime change in Iraq."
First off, documents like that are need to know basis documents. I can't see how he would need to know. His possession, much less flashing of those documents is on the vergence of treason.
Look folks, sitting somewhere in the Pentagon are plans for the invasion of Guam (a US Territory if you didn't know) and probably Alaska for good measure. We have and train for the possible invasion of every square inch of this planet, a fact cwilli can probably back me up on. Every couple of years, the Pentagon pulls the "contigency plans" (that's what they are called) for the places that are very volatile and dynamic and goes over them and updates them. Depending on the places this is done are a timetable of every 6 months to every 10 years. With a places like Iraq (very very volatile and very very dynamic, especially in early 2001) they will pull these plans and brief the president on them, possibly make changes upon a new president taking office.
What we have here is Mr. O'Neill is bitter and is seeking a little political revenge by making things seems other than how they are. I know this makes great fodder for the conspiracy theorists, but people GET OVER IT!
Posted by Skywalker at January 12, 2004 05:57 PM | TrackBack