Online References on Iraq Planning and Lying [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
Newly-available documents detailing the early work of the "Future of Iraq Project [3]," the U.S. State Department [4]'s massive planning effort for post-regime change Iraq [5], have been posted online [6] by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute. The new documents "provide a behind-the-scenes look at the formation of 17 working groups consisting of 'free' Iraqis and experts, 14 of which met throughout 2002 and early 2003 to plan for a post-Saddam Hussein [7] Iraq," according to the National Security Archive. "The first planning meeting with Iraqis took place at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. from April 9-10, 2002." In other Iraq news, Mother Jones magazine has launched "Lie by Lie [8]," a timeline seeking to answer the question, "What did our leaders know and when did they know it?" The online reference [8] currently covers from August 1990 to March 2003.