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

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:
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.

**not really.

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 ....

***this makes no sense.  We had plenty of our own airplanes being shot at in the 
no fly zone, why would shooting at a UN plane be so much more dramatic.




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