--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > It has recently been shown that Bush was actually conducting heavy > bombing operations in Iraq before officially going to war.
The goal being to get Saddam to retaliate, to give the U.S. an excuse to invade. Saddam was too smart to fall for it. My > understanding is that Bush went to war without allowing the UN > inspectors to finish their job (as he had said he would) and without > getting the final OK from Congress (as he had promised he would). > Either way, Bush went to war under false pretenses, having decided > (according to the Downing Memos et al.) much earlier that he would > have to lie and cook the evidence to justify his actions. I am no > lawyer, but I believe "lying to justify a war" equals "illegal war". A retired U.S. Air Force colonel has done a study that identifies 50 false news stories that the White House propaganda machine leaked to the press. It's a devastating report. There's a detailed summary here at www.earthisland.com-- http://tinyurl.com/up75 --the link above is to part 1 of 4--and there are links to the complete PDF of the study at the bottom of that page. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
