But isn't your source for this denial the same Ministry of Truth that told us that they had documents proving that Iraq was seeking to buy Uranium from Nigeria?
This was a crude forgery not much better than ones I have whipped up myself. (Hey, maybe I did...)
Probably too crude for a CIA or DIA forgery, unless the intent was to show how gullible the prole press is.
That the aluminum tubes were part of a nuclear program? That the fire trucks around missile sites were bio decontamination trucks?
Colin Powell was given a chance to produce the real "smoking guns" at the U.N. He failed to do so.
As the Iraqis themselves said, and I paraphrase (because the quote is not handy): "If the U.S. says they know the locations of secret weapons projects, of underground bunkers, etc., why don't they simply give the locations to the U.N. weapons inspectors who can then go to those sites?"
The U.S. had no response.
I saw a report that the nucular [SIC] weapons inspection teams were aided by U.S. experts from Los Alamos, Livermore, and other nuclear facilities. Reportedly the U.S. scientists and engineers arrrived in Iraq as hawks and left as doves, saying they saw a country bombed and sanctioned into a primitive state, with a failing technological infrastructure and no indications that they could develop nuclear weapons.
Since 93% of the Turkish people oppose helping the US attack Iraq, is there any possibility that the money is under table, or paid directly to the Swiss accounts (oh! moneylaundering!) of key legislators?
I've been saying exactly this for several weeks, that it looked like legislators were being targeted with a "shock and awe" program.
(Cameroon diplomat: "We are shocked by the wonderful gift baskets we have been receiving and the many condoms and cocaine we are being given. Our beautiful blonde Swedish stewardesses will be awed by our new wealth! I will move my goats to the other bedroom to enjoy their shock and awe.")
To those who are being turned from doves (or, more accurately, isolationists/noninterventionists) to hawks (including, regrettably, a member of my family!), I have this to say:
* Beware being caught up in the bloodlust of televised war, with palaces being blown up, with office buildings burning, with neighborhoods blown apart. The televised images are graphic. I admit, I'm impressed. But, then, I was impressed with Japanese prowess at Pearl Harbor.
* The expenditure of trillions of dollars on fighters, bombers, aircraft carriers, submarines, artillery, armor, troops, and many forward bases in the area (including in Arab countries where the leaders were paid off) is why the U.S. can "spend a billion dollars an hour" to kick an Arab country's ass.
* And the "rebuilding" of Iraq (and Iran, and North Korea, and so on) is NOT a constitutional reason to tax people. This rebuilding and "nation building" is not what the Constitution is about.
* Related to this, the national security state, the gutting of the Bill of Rights, the massive budget deficit, all of these examples are chickens coming home to roost. Much more can be said about these terrible developments.
* The deeper issues are about expansionism, a doctrine of pre-emption against countries which have not actually threatened the U.S., and about precisely the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about and the foreign entanglements that Washington warned us about.
I promise that my views, expressed here for weeks or months, will not be swayed by the apparent ease with which "spending a billion dollars an hour" is, not surprisingly, bombing Iraq further back into the stone age.
--Tim May
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