from the NSA;

a criminal president wants to invade a country and needs to come up with a pretext.... under the heading "The Problem" is the question "what reason can we come up with to invade?" The answer, well, lie about the threat at home, try to scare the locals into attacking you first, maybe sink a US ship and then claim provocation. In fact use any terrorist means available to you. New shit come to light about Iraq? no. simply "liberal" president kennedy and plans to make cuban the 51st state (ironic that he seems to have been shot by someone who was over taking on the right, over the grassy knoll area...). funny how the bush administration has been so rententive of late as regards disclosure of the documentary record (dispite its legal oblogations under the FOIA).

"In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS[the list of terrorist measures starts page 10]. This document, titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba” was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” including “sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),” faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.”