Newly declassified State Department documents reveal that planning for regime change in Iraq began as early as October 2001.
The documents have been posted at the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
The new documents, released this month to the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act, also provide more evidence on when the Bush administration began planning for regime change in Iraq — as early as October 2001.
The declassified records relate mainly to the so-called “Future of Iraq Project,” an effort, initially run by the State Department then by the Pentagon, to plan for the transition to a new regime after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. They provide detail on each of the working groups and give the starting date for planning as October 2001. — National Security Archive
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N. Mallory
Aug 18, 2005
Kind of like that “Future of Cuba” document that was just accidently leaked…
Man, I hate it when my conspiracy theory is right sometimes.
Trevor
Aug 19, 2005
I don’t like the size and scope of our government either, but they do lots of planning for lots of scenarios. This should be no surprise, and only makes sense.
Saddam had lots of plans too.
Sep 14, 2006
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