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Constructing Iraq And Iran War Lies Comment by Larry Ross, April 16, 2007
An excellent account of how the Bush regime, with the help of other governments, constructed lies to fool the US public and Congress into supporting the war on Iraq. This was in spite of IAEA reports that Iraq did not have and was not making nuclear weapons. However with the help of the US mass media, this information was suppressed. They are now planning to do it again, as Senator Byrd warns: Well, the conspirators are nigh onto doing it again, getting Congress, the mainstream media and most Americans to totally disregard the null findings of Director-General ElBaradei in Iran. Former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D, WV) was one of the few who tried to stop Bush from attacking Iraq. On February 12, 2003, Byrd had this to say on the floor of the Senate. "This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. "The doctrine of preemption – the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future – is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self-defense. "It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. "And it is being tested at a time of worldwide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our – or some other nation's – hit list." Iran doesn't wonder; it knows.
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Conspiracy, Collusion, War by Gordon Prather ,
April 14, 2007 On March 7, 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported [.pdf] to the UN Security Council that "After three months of intrusive inspections, we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq." After conducting a total of 218 inspections at 141 sites – including 21 sites suggested by the CIA! – ElBaradei reported "There is no indication of resumed nuclear activities in those buildings that were identified through the use of satellite imagery as being reconstructed or newly erected since 1998, nor any indication of nuclear-related prohibited activities at any inspected sites. "There is no indication that Iraq has attempted to import uranium since 1990. "There is no indication that Iraq has attempted to import aluminum tubes for use in centrifuge enrichment. Moreover, even had Iraq pursued such a plan, it would have encountered practical difficulties in manufacturing centrifuge out of the aluminum tubes in question ." Hans Blix, Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, made a similar, but somewhat less conclusive, report concerning chemical and biological weapons (and the makings thereof), noting that the remaining significant uncertainty had to do with the actual quantities of chemical and biological agents that were unilaterally destroyed by the Iraqis in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War. And that, of course, is what the neo-crazies had feared. That the UN Inspectors would tell the whole world what the neo-crazies had known for years. That Saddam Hussein had long been in substantive compliance with UN Security Council Resolutions requiring "the destruction, removal or rendering harmless under international supervision," of all so-called "weapons of mass destruction" and the makings thereof. Therefore, Saddam Hussein was no longer a threat to peace in the region. According to Walter Pincus , former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet had produced in December, 2002, a 2-inch-thick book that listed high-, medium- and low-priority sites in Iraq, suspected of being related to weapons of mass destruction. |
