Forget B-52s. Real power comes from networked hominids tapping keyboards.
As a Secretary of State discovered, all it takes to verify an official
"story" is to go online and type in a few key search words. Try "powell
presentation" or "bush cocaine" -- then hit the key appropriately labeled
"Enter".
The results can be spectacular. Thanks to a Cambridge professor's
recollection and online retrieval, Bush's only buddy willing to send
reluctant soldiers into the irradiated ruins of Baghdad could face a
humiliating non-confidence vote within days.
Former Labour minister Glenda Jackson told BBC Radio 4, "If that was
presented to Parliament and the country as being up-to-date intelligence
and in fact as we now know they simply lifted it from a university thesis,
it is another example of how the Government is attempting to mislead the
country and Parliament on the issue of a possible war with Iraq."
Another former Labour minister, Peter Kilfoyle, said he was "shocked" at
the way the dossier had been doctored. "It just adds to the general
impression that what we have been treated to is a farrago of half-truths,
assertions and over-the-top spin. I am shocked that on such thin evidence
-- a Californian postgraduate thesis -- that we should be trying to
convince the British people that this is a war worth fighting." [Telegraph
Feb. 8, 2003]
The implications for Washington's war plans are serious. If Tony Blair
loses a vote brought against him by his own party, the present Prime
Minister of England will find himself suddenly unemployed. And Bush will be
bereft of major backers.
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