Bush was telling his cabinet that he planned to invade Iraq 10 days after he was installed in the White House, according to Paul O'Neill who then served as Treasury Secretary. It's not an "I think" Team Bush stole the election. It's absolutely provable that Bush stole the election, and there's evidence that Bush intended to invade Iraq BEFORE he cheated his way into office. Bush was bent on invading Iraq immediately after entering the presidency. He was persuaded to delay that project in order to bomb Afghanistan first. The impression is that goal of waging war on Iraq was one of the motivations for Bush to steal the election. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-sought-way-to-invade-iraq/

Graham McQueen wrote a book, The 2001 Anthrax Deception in which he showed that the mailing of anthrax spores one week after the controlled demolition of 3 WTC towers used weaponized anthrax from Fort Detrick, a bioweapon pointing to US perps, not Al Qaeda. This was part of an effort to frame Saddam Hussein for being in league with Al Qaeda, but the scheme fell apart. The NY Times lied that the mailed anthrax had been treated with bentonite, a mode of weaponization associated with Iraq. The time frame for the "retaliation" against Afghanistan showed that this assault was planned PRIOR to 9/11. On the morning of 9/11, Ehud Barak was at the BBC studio in London listing which countries he wanted to have attacked in "retaliation," and naming Osama bin Laden as the culprit. The list consisted of counties Israel had been targeting, including Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbxYWKtYWM You may want to download this video of Ehud Barak. Other clips with different titles of him listing countries to attack and anticipating the TSA have been scrubbed from Youtube. Ehud Barak was a business partner to Jeffrey Epstein, and former Israeli PM and Defense Minister - teamed with Netanyahu before they more recently became rivals.

Rush Limbaugh is a liar of grand proportions.

"And what happened at President Bush's very first National Security Council meeting is one of O'Neill's most startling revelations.

"From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," says O'Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11.

"From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime," says Suskind. "Day one, these things were laid and sealed."

As treasury secretary, O'Neill was a permanent member of the National Security Council. He says in the book he was surprised at the meeting that questions such as "Why Saddam?" and "Why now?" were never asked.

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" says O'Neill. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."

And that came up at this first meeting, says O'Neill, who adds that the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later.

He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. "There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, 'Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,'" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.

Based on his interviews with O'Neill and several other officials at the meetings, Suskind writes that the planning envisioned peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals, and even divvying up Iraq's oil wealth. He obtained one Pentagon document, dated March 5, 2001, and entitled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield contracts," which includes a map of potential areas for exploration.

"It talks about contractors around the world from, you know, 30-40 countries. And which ones have what intentions," says Suskind. "On oil in Iraq."

During the campaign, candidate Bush had criticized the Clinton-Gore Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that."

"The thing that's most surprising, I think, is how emphatically, from the very first, the administration had said 'X' during the campaign, but from the first day was often doing 'Y,'" says Suskind. "Not just saying 'Y,' but actively moving toward the opposite of what they had said during the election."

The president had promised to cut taxes, and he did. Within six months of taking office, he pushed a trillion dollars worth of tax cuts through Congress. But O'Neill thought it should have been the end. After 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, the budget deficit was growing. So at a meeting with the vice president after the mid-term elections in 2002, Suskind writes that O'Neill argued against a second round of tax cuts.

"Cheney, at this moment, shows his hand," says Suskind. "He says, 'You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. We won the mid-term elections, this is our due.' … O'Neill is speechless." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-sought-way-to-invade-iraq/ "O'Neill asserts that Saddam Hussein was targeted for removal not in the 9/11 aftermath but soon [10 days] after Bush took office." https://www.amazon.com/Price-Loyalty-George-Education-ONeill/dp/0743255453/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=paul+O%27Neill&qid=1582901506&sr=8-3