born and raised to southern california greg palast is an investigative reporter for b b c t v and the british newspapers the guardian and the observer his reports and his book the best copy of the speech you all kept copy of his speech i have a little checklist of what he said was going to happen anyway he said our president said that he said i you know kassie and other people going in that you say our sons and daughters and mothers and dads are coming in there to liberate you and don't shoot them and he said you know weapons of mass destruction we'll be coming in to plant weapons of mass  i know someone out here he said why do we go when someone said boyle that's i know why the misimpression back in february of two thousand two thousand and three ari fleischer spokesman at the white house held a press this is something fell into my hands for those who know me little documents walk out of government offices from the u s state department confidential documents and it is it is part of our larger doc you called the iraq strategy this is the post economic post conflict plan for the economy of iraq which was developed about a year before we were told there was going to be a conflict in iraq but ok if you're going to conquer a place you might as well have a plan and i thought well but i thought you know hey it's going to be all about you know maybe turn you know caps and the u s state department is helpfully going to fill out the application for iraq to the world trade organization that's when things are ok eliminating be the first nation on the planet privatization of of six of the top state banks hundred percent foreign ownership of industries a new currency the bush sr going on in there but you know but a new currency i mean they have it all laid out all laid out the schedule now when i saw i thought of jay garner member general garner he was the first i don't remember he was the first kind of pasha that we parachuted into baghdad he was going to be our civilian the viceroy that president bush had a point and i took to so i took this document down to washington d c with my b b c camera crew from london paris and we i sat yes i said well see on page seventy three he it's books we're talking about you know all of privatizing all state industry especially the book privatization asset sales concessions leases and management contracts especially in the oil and supporting industries see what general jay did and i said i asked him about one thing that he did when he got off the plane see he got off the plane after he'd been appointed by the president who told him he was going into iraq to bring them democracy so he gets off the plane and he announces on the target that there will be elections in iraq in ninety days washington don't pack you're gone donald rumsfeld was on the other tariffs cut the business taxes and take the oil all in a day see there's a schedule that goes takes two hundred seventy to three hundred sixty days to do that there's a big problem then if you have elections in ninety days and you oil takes three hundred sixty days to get the oil there's a problem so they remove general jay and they put right in it all bremmer the third got and he got i mean when general jay was reminded don't forget how they did that they said he was hapless incompetent terrible unlikable man you know played with girls dollies at least he was they didn't just get rid of him they they ruined him all those rumors printed in the washington post that came from the white house that he put in paul bremmer and now tremendous stories  tribune elsewhere about what a great guy he was now general jay had you know he could speak and he spent years in iraq he was well known and well liked by iraqis because he when he was occupation chief in northern about you read that trip what about if you can have elections in ninety days what we can do with this plan for the banks and the tariffs of the oil he said i was going to give it to a legitimate elected iraqi government and they could do that with the like smells like drove every wednesday in washington d c grover norquist who is the big shot lobbyist he represented microsoft he represented american express the big outfit he leads every wednesday in a group of the big corporate lobbyists the big media right wing mobiles like national review washing times and the and the social conservatives as they're called that's like the christian coalition and the national rifle association every week that's like kind of a black bag lunch of the you know where the at just meet the vicious and and i and they plan the weeks you know news control operation they do and one of their and it just had that wednesday group program to it was their whole program you know even the n r a you know that's true ok now all this stuff was put in by i mean got the whole thing so september eighteenth september nineteenth our days of iraqis will remember like we remember september look ok but different those are the days when jerry bremmer put this into effect the democratic way he signed order saying  that's full name paul bremer the third under my authority sign orders thirty seven thirty nine forty seventeen flat tax no terror cell the banks etc under my authority yeah i mean you know also i'm not one of these people like i heard some on the audiences cynical enough to believe that we went in for the oil but we sure as heck ain't leavin without it will says ok since we last got together the september eleventh committee met so now all our questions are answer is very interesting those two two words were you couldn't hear during the committee hearing it were prohibited saudi arabia right no it couldn't be mentioned you know it's like saudi saudi arabia so another guy asked them and now he's been blocked the i have some information in the book the best democracy money can buy with big was finally going to be brought to the silver screen by michael moore and as the film fahrenheit nine one one and until media mouse had a different idea now i'm going to show you what you would see other things but what you're not allowed to see from the from the meeting notes which is a document among other things a document mark secret at the top and marked one ninety nine i which means national security w f washington office of the f  but they weren't allowed to ask questions the agents that weren't released do that case is closed until september thirteenth two thousand and one when their agents told go get  that might be for me so what's going on here what's going on here the you know the age that people always wonder how i get this stuff all kinds of different but in this case i just want to tell you national security news service working with me and b b c the f b i agents f b i agents came to the office in washington asked a couple questions they call up and said oh my god you left the folder on your desk in secret documents you haven't looked at it  because the agents they tried to do their jobs like cass in baggot the idea that they want to do their job and not one of the agents i spoke to the cia or the d i a with the f b i ever said to me you know we could have gotten these guys if only we didn't have that darn constitution not one agent said number of each and said we'll a have gotten those guys if only we didn't have the bush family's boots on our neck family the bin ladens i mean our president is one of those guys you struck it rich in the oil industry never struck any oil but he did strike the pockets of several shakes and then you know and the bin laden family kindly funded an operation called carlyle group which employs both presidents bush right but what they're so but our president not that is ignoring this issue of the saudi money connection because the families of the victims of the september eleventh attack have sued the defense ministry of saudi arabia for providing the cash ok our president was so concerned that he actually gave the lawyer on the case an office right in the white house when he did write the white house it was the lawyer for the saudis against the families of the it's got he represents exxon mobil coil ok the james baker institute right special counsel to carlyle group they said no he was he wasn't appointed by the president he was appointed by the iraqi government owns the puppets we put in a gunpoint appointed his lawyer you know why but and in fact the white house president back from march seventeenth of last year when he said it and i agree with you he said do not fight for a dying regime it is not