White House Cabinet Member Suggested Killing an American Service Man to Justify War

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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: White House Cabinet  
Member Suggested Killing an American Service Man to Justify War

Submitted by George Washington on 12/10/2010 14:33 -0500

→ Washington’s Blog
On Monday, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh  
Shelton told told Jon Stewart that a Clinton cabinet member proposed  
letting Saddam kill an American pilot as a pretext for war in Iraq:
  http://video.aol.com/aolvideo/aol-television/gen-hugh-shelton-on-the-daily-show-120610-tv-replay/701091319001


And see this. [ http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/15/clinton_official_iraq_hugh_shelton 
  ]

This might seem, at first glance, like just an odd, one-off suggestion.

However, as reported by the New York Times and other newspapers,  
George W. Bush also suggested to Tony Blair that a U.S. plane be  
painted in United Nations colors so that - if Saddam shot it down - it  
would create acasus belli. As the Times wrote in 2006:
The memo [confirmed by two senior British officials as being  
authentic] also shows that the president and the prime minister  
acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside  
Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned  
invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a  
confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States  
surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of  
drawing fire ....



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