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We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole!	by Michael Moore	December 14, 2003
Thank God Saddam is finally back in American hands! He must have really missed us. Man, he sure looked bad! But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's something most Americans can't get.
We allowed and encouraged American corporations to do business with Saddam in the 1980s. That's how he got chemical and biological agents so he could use them in chemical and biological weapons. Here's the list of some of the stuff we sent him (according to a 1994 U.S. Senate report):

Comment From Larry Ross		February 17, 2004
Tommy Franks, a doomsday scenario	by Robyn E. Blumner	December 7, 2003
The doomsday scenario was laid out by Gen. Tommy Franks, the recently retired head of CentCom, in of all places the December edition of Cigar Aficionado magazine. "What is the worst thing that can happen in our country?" Franks asked rhetorically. "Two steps. The first step would be a nexus between weapons of mass destruction . . . and terrorism." The second step would be "the western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy." St. Petersburg Times

	Turkeys On The Moon from Mike Moore Dear Mr. Bush,	December 8, 2003
	- Even the turkey is fake. How can we take the president seriously?


Rogue States: Nuclear Red-Herrings	by Bruce G. Blair, Ph.D	December 5, 2003
The dirty little secret of America’s current nuclear policy is that 99 percent of the nuclear weapons budget, planning, targeting, and operational activities still revolves around this one anachronistic scenario. The rationale is a throw-back to the Cold War, but however absurd, it still is the axis of current nuclear operations.

	The 9/11 Cover-up	by David Corn	November 21, 2003
	What did Bush know about the al Qaeda threat and when did he know it? It's fortunate for George W. Bush he has a mess on his hands in Iraq; otherwise, he might have to worry about a significant cover-up coming undone.

	Arresting The Future		by Tom Hayden, AlterNet	November 21, 2003
	MIAMI, Friday 8:21pm EST – The police force continued operating with the brains and appetite of a carnivorous shark today as city officials kept demonstrating "the Miami model" of suppression even as protestors and trade ministers were leaving the city in droves. More

	The Professor Takes the Gloves Off		by Terrence McNally, AlterNet	November 12, 2003
	..Paul Krugman has become the most prominent voice in the mainstream U.S. media to openly and repeatedly accuse George Bush of lying to the American people to sell budget-busting tax cuts and a pre-emptive and nearly unilateral war. More

	GEORGE BUSH, YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE		by Dave Krieger	November 11, 2003
	Mr. Bush, you can continue to deceive, twist and equivocate, but you can't hide the deaths and untold sorrow of yet another war -- unilateral, illegal, immoral and unnecessary.

	The Nature of Resistance in Iraq		by Scott Ritter	November 10, 2003
	Though the Bush administration consistently characterizes the nature of the enemy in Iraq as "terrorist," and identifies the leading culprits as "foreign fighters," the notion of Al Qaeda or Al Ansar al Islam using Baghdad (or any urban area in Iraq) as an independent base of operations is far-fetched. To the extent that foreigners appear at all in Baghdad, it is likely only under the careful control of the pro-Hussein resistance, and even then, only to be used as an expendable weapon in the same way one would use a rocket-propelled grenade or IED.

Iraq Is Not America's To Sell	by Naomi Klein The Guardian	November 7, 2003
International law is unequivocal - Paul Bremer's economic reforms are illegal
Bring Halliburton home. Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules. Those are just a few of the suggestions for slogans that could help unify the growing movement against the occupation of Iraq. So far, activist debates have focused on whether the demand should be for a complete withdrawal of troops, or for the United States to cede power to the United Nations.

	Spinning the War; Bombs in Baghdad			by Mike Whitney	November 1, 2003
	It’s clear the Bush Administration would prefer that the unsuspecting American public see the recent scourge of suicide bombings as evidence of international terrorism rather than what they are, the signs of a growing and well organized insurgency. In this way they can legitimize their dismal grasp of post war Iraq and the failed policies that are now resulting in chaos.

	Rumsfeld Wants a Ministry of Truth		by Paul Craig Roberts	October 29, 2003
	When deceit catches up with a government, officials take refuge in propaganda. Thus, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told the Washington Times (Oct. 24) that he wants a "21st century information agency in the government" to help fight a "war of ideas" and educate Americans and foreigners that Big Brother is right. Antiwar News

	U.S. contractors form shadowy army		DND Canada News Release	October 29 , 2003
	Critics say increased role of quasi-soldiers damages accountability. Several have been killed recently! By paying civilians to handle military tasks, the Bush administration is freeing up U.S. troops to fight. But the use of contractors also hides the true costs of war.

Comment	by Larry Ross	October 26, 2003
QUESTIONS THAT WON'T BE ASKED ABOUT IRAQ	by Ron Paul	September 10, 2002
Soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned there are some questions that won¡t be asked - and maybe will not even be allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are urging us to start this war. Project Freedom

	A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America		by Victoria Collier	October 25 , 2003
	In the 2000 election, George W. Bush stole the presidency by combining various forms of vote fraud, not all of which could be concealed from the American public. The month-long battle in Dade County ended with open slaughter of the democratic process, and the occupation of the country by a regime of what may be accurately described as corporate fascists. t r u t h o u t \| Perspective

Comment	by Larry Ross	October 25 , 2003
Full Disclosure on Leaks	by Robert Booth
Secrets are created every day in the federal government: when National Security Agency personnel create codes, when C.I.A. case officers talk to their spies, when F.B.I. agents speak to their sources, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff discuss troop movements. When these secrets are revealed to the press, it is known as a leak. Not all leaks are created equal, however. Just as the motives for leaking differ, so do the consequences of a leak. NYTimes

	Empire Builders - Neo-Conservatives and Their Blueprint for US Power			October 24, 2003
	Key Figures - their profiles, and much more

	WAR PROFITEERS		Agribusiness Examiner	October 20, 2003
	Jobs for the Good Ol' Boys - But Not Iraqis! Even though seven million Iraqis are unemployed, U.S. sub-contractors are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap migrant labor from South Asia. The use of Asian laborers is at odds with President Bush's emphasis on the importance of Iraqis taking on the job themselves.

	Remarks by Senator Robert C. Byrd (USA) on Iraq War and Lies		by Sen.Robert C. Byrd	October 17, 2003
	I cannot stand by and continue to watch our grandchildren become increasingly burdened by the billions that fly out of the Treasury for a war and a policy based largely on propaganda and prevarication. We are borrowing $87 billion to finance this adventure in Iraq. The President is asking this Senate to pay for this war with increased debt, a debt that will have to be paid by our children and by those same troops that are currently fighting this war. I cannot support outlandish tax cuts that plunge our country into potentially disastrous debt while our troops are fighting and dying in a war that the White House chose to begin.

	Hapless Prisoners in a Black Hole - the Disgrace that is Guantanamo		by Elainne Cassell	October 14, 2003
	'' I started to write about the disgraceful situation in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Friday morning. I had read about the International Red Cross's condemnation of the Bush administration's continued detention of 650 or more prisoners, some of them juveniles, captured in Afghanistan two years ago. They have been held in cages on the American military base there, without attorneys, with little access to family, and without any charges being placed against them.

Better Late Than Never?	by Michael Tennant	October 14, 2003
Comment	by Larry Ross	October 15, 2003
This article by Michael Tennant, "Better Late Than Never" has an excellent brief record of the US Govt's use of lies to fool or frighten the US public into supporting US wars since 1898. It is only with media cooperation that this technique can work again and again.

MI6 and the CIA The New Enemy Within	by Raymond Whitaker	February 9, 2003
Comment	by Larry Ross	October 15, 2003
.....since this article, exposed that Bush and Blair were cherry-picking their intelligence agencies reports to justify war with Iraq. After the war, many more daming reports have come out that Bush and Blair, not only cooked and altered intelligence to frighten their publics into supporting war, they actually invented lies to further frighten them.

	Bush defends Iraq war and economic policy	October 12, 2003
	* Accuses mainstream media of fuelling unhappiness by reporting mostly bad news from Iraq* So Journalists should not tell the truth now?? Brushing aside the embarrassing failure of US troops to find the weapons he made the centrepiece of his case for military action, Bush said the invasion thwarted future plots against the United States by “madman” Saddam Hussein. “Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat. He possessed and he used weapons of mass destruction,” he declared here. “I was not about to leave the security of the United States to the desires and hopes of this madman.” Daily Times Pakistan

Selective Intelligence on Road to Baghdad

by Alessandra Stanley New York Times

October 9, 2003

The narrator notes, "What was missing from all the speeches and television appearances were the caveats and contrary evidence from their own intelligence agencies." Cost - $100 billion + $4 billion a month

	Demonstration At Menwith Hill American Spy Base	October 11, 2003
	Menwith Hill is the world's biggest military spy base. With 30 giant golf ball shaped radomes on the base, along with a miriad of aerials, the base is key to US political, commercial and miliary espionage. ...More about the spy base

	US Threatened To Downgrade Qatari Ties Over Al-Jazeera		John R. Bradley,	October 4, 2003
	Al-Jazeera made the decision to pull two “anti-US” cartoons from its website last month under US pressure. ....More

	The War on Al-Jazeera		by Dima Tareq Tahboub	October 4, 2003
	The US is determined to suppress the independent Arab media		The Guardian

	1,200 weapons inspectors spent 90 days in Iraq.	By Rupert Cornwell in Washington and Paul Waugh	October 3, 2003
	The exercise cost $300m. And the number of weapons found? 0 Five months after the end of the war in Iraq, a CIA adviser has admitted that his 1,200-strong team of inspectors has discovered none of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

Russia Follows US in Small Nukes Plan

Comment Steve Starr

October 2, 2003

The Bush administration has attempted to portray the so-called mini-nukes as a quasi-conventional weapon that can be used without the danger of massive radioactive fallout. This is a deliberate lie, because.......

Who's Sordid Now?

September 30 , 2003

Cronyism is an important factor in our Iraqi debacle. It's not just that reconstruction is much more expensive than it should be. The really important thing is that cronyism is warping policy: by treating contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends, administration officials are delaying Iraq's recovery, with potentially catastrophic consequences.

	Kennedy Lashes Out on Iraq		by Carl Hulse New York Times	September 27, 2003
	on the Senate floor, he said, "The tragedy is that our troops are paying with their lives because the administration failed to prepare a plan to win the peace." .......More

	FISK on SAID Edward Said's funeral is in New York today.		by Robert Fisk The Independent	September 26, 2003
	Palestinian, intellectual, and fighter, Edward Said rails against Arafat and Sharon to his dying breath...

	They Lied and Many Soldiers Died		by Jimmy Breslin	September 23, 2003
	George Bush told lies and they died. First, your government lied to ensure Bush's re-election. Who votes against a president in time of war? And even better, you get oil with the winning election. .......More

	Nuclear Power: A Cold War Propaganda Tool		by Arjun Makhijani and Michele Boyd	September 22, 2003
	There are far better and safer energy options available now. It is time to leave nuclear energy behind as a failed dream of the last century. We can and must replace the false propaganda of "atoms for peace" with an "energy for peace" program that can make the well-being of the present generation compatible with the protection of the security and environment of future generations. ......More

	The Most Important Book Since 9/11		by Anthony Gregory	September 16, 2003
	Anyone interested in the War on Terrorism must read James Bovard's newest book: Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. .......More

	A Modern Fairy Tale	River Bend Blog	September 12, 2003
	Someone asked me why I didn’t write anything yesterday mentioning September 11. I’ll be perfectly honest- I had forgotten about it until around 2 pm. I woke up to no electricity, washed up and went into the kitchen to help out with breakfast.

	THIS WAR ON TERRORISM IS BOGUS		by Michael Meacher	September 6, 2003
	The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination. Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too. .......More

September Surprise	by Bill Berkowitz	Sepember, 05, 2003
Last May, President Bush made his now-famous -- and outrageously false -- statement to a Polish television station: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.... But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." See also Neocons See Iran Behind Shi'ite Uprising More

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PM's office exaggerated Iraq threat, inquiry hears.	From ABC News	August, 2003
A former intelligence analyst has accused the Prime Minister's office of exaggerating the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The claim has been made to a federal parliamentary inquiry investigating the accuracy of intelligence about Iraq's banned weapons. Andrew Wilkie quit the Office of National Assessments in March because he believed the Government was deliberately misleading the public about the case for war.

Comment	by Larry Ross	August 22, 2003
Armageddon	by Morgan Strong	October 19, 2002
When we go to war in Iraq we will do so to summon the Messiah. That is what the Christian right believes. The final battle to rid the world of all non-believers, non-Christians, more exactly non-Evangelical Christians, is going to take place very soon at Armageddon in Israel. The Bible tells us so. .....More

Comment	by Larry Ross	August 11, 2003
America is a Religion	by George Monbiot
US leaders now see themselves as priests, with a divine mission to rid the world of its demons. .....More

	The Silent Genocide from America	by Mohammed Daud Miraki	August 11, 2003
	When Bush jr. said, "we will smoke them out…" he lived up to his promise, making life an unattainable reality for the unborn and unsustainable reality for the living sentencing the Afghan people and their future generations to a predetermined death sentence. All they don't tell you about D.U. Weapons

	Congressional Report: No 9/11-Iraq Link	July 24, 2003
	...Once it was determined that the inquiry would be made public they fought very hard to keep huge portions of it classified. In fact, even now, huge portions remain extremely secret. http://www.warblogging.com/ ....More

	Blind Imperial Arrogance	by Edward Said	July 20, 2003
	Vile Stereotyping of Arabs by the U.S. Ensures Years of Turmoil	Los Angeles Times

	20 Falsehoods About The Iraq War			July 14 , 2003
	Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker sift fact from fiction as controversy rages over the Iraq war. .......More

	All Spin All The Time		by Russ Baker	July 11, 2003
	Viva Nihilism! It must be great working in the Bush White House. Zero accountability. It's All Spin, All the Time. Nothing matters but politics, hence no unfounded claim requires correction or apology. Unless, of course, they are pushed to the end of the plank, as they were recently with the tale about Niger and nuclear materials. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0711-01.htm

	History Now: Bush Administration Manipulation			July 10, 2003
	Have you say and make a difference PETITION for you to sign .......More

TEN MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS	David Krieger & Angela McCracken	July 08, 2003
Nuclear weapons were needed to defeat Japan in World War II. ?
Nuclear weapons prevented war between the US and the Soviet Union. ? Nuclear threats have gone away since the end of the Cold War. ? The United States needs nuclear weapons for its national security. ? Nuclear weapons make a country safer. ? No leader would be crazy enough to actually use nuclear weapons. ? Nuclear weapons are a cost-effective method of national defense. ? Nuclear weapons are well protected and there is little chance that terrorists could get their hands on one. ? The US is working to fulfill its nuclear disarmament obligations. ? Nuclear weapons are needed to combat threats from terrorists ?	.....More

IRAQ WAR INTELLIGENCE from MoveOn Bulletin, Noah T. Winer, Editor				July 4, 2003

1.	Introduction	7.	Impeachment
2.	One Link	8.	British and U.S. Inquiries
3.	Niger Forgeries	9.	Ends Justify the Means
4.	Misrepresentation	10.	Misleader
5.	Powell and Blix Have Their Doubts	11.	Credits
6.	Intelligence Sources	12.	About the Bulletin	...More

Blowing the N-whistle

Doug Rokke

June 28, 2004

	A former US military researcher tells Gay Alcorn of his crusade to expose the health risks of depleted-uranium weapons used in the Gulf wars. Doug Rokke sits on the edge of his chair in a beige, could-be-anywhere hotel room in Carlton. He stares at you with an almost embarrassing intensity and is close to tears. "It's lonely," he says slowly. "It's very lonely. I made a decision. I was given a job. I did my job. I learned something. I gave them an answer they didn't want. I became persona non grata. And the better parts of my life ended."

Weapon of Mass Deception

by Frida Berrigan

June 27, 2003

	In the weeks leading up to the war on Iraq, TV screens across America were crowded with images of U.S. soldiers readying for upcoming battles with a crazed dictator who would stop at nothing. One clip after another showed U.S. soldiers racing to don $211 suits designed to protect them from the chemical and biological attacks they would surely suffer on the road to ousting Saddam Hussein.

	Pilger on the "War"		by John Pilger	June 19, 2003
	Once more, we hear that America is being "sucked into a quagmire". The rapacious adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are going badly wrong. America's two "great victories" since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. ...More

So Why Did America Attack Iraq?	DNC Women's Vote Center	June 15, 2003
America and the World Need to Know the Truth
.Republicans refused to open an investigation into the intelligence used by President Bush to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

	Bush's Impeachable Offenses: Lying & Racketeering		June 15, 2003
	Republicans Vs. The United States Armed Forces: The Sequel. American-led teams have not located either WMD weapons or the "re-built factories" that allegedly produced them.

	Democrats Demand Investigation Into Iraqi WMD Questions		June 14, 2003
	Americans deserve to know the truth about why we went to war in Iraq. Click here to take action now and send a message to President Bush and Senator Pat Roberts demanding a full investigation into the intelligence Bush relied upon when he argued that Iraq presented an imminent threat to the United States.

'They impeach murderers, don't they?'	by Ted Rall	June 13, 2003
Topic: Commander-In-Thief Bush Must Step Down George W. Bush told us that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. As our allies watched in horror and disgust, Bush conned us into a one-sided war of aggression that killed and maimed thousands of innocent people, destroyed billions of dollars in Iraqi infrastructure, cost tens of billions of dollars, cost the lives of American soldiers, and transformed our international image as the world's shining beacon of freedom into that of a marauding police state. Presidents Nixon and Clinton rightly faced impeachment for comparatively trivial offenses; if we hope to restore our nation's honor, George W. Bush too must face a president's gravest political sanction.

	Playwright Pinter blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair		The Guardian	June 11, 2003
	The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. ...More

	What Is Happening in America?		by Eliot Weinberger	June 8, 2003
	George Bush is the first unelected President of the United States, installed by a right-wing Supreme Court in a kind of judicial coup d'etat. He is the first to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state. There are now daily prayer meetings and Bible study groups in every branch of the government, and religious organisations are being given funds to take over educational and welfare programs that have always been the domain of the state.

	SECRET CABAL WHICH SPUN FOR BLAIR		Investigation: by Neil Mackay, UK Herald	June 8, 2003
	BRITAIN ran a covert 'dirty tricks' operation designed specifically to produce misleading intelligence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction to give the UK a justifiable excuse to wage war on Iraq. ...More

	Lies and Hypocrisy from the G-8 plus comment by Larry Ross		CND-UK Press	June 5, 2003
	CND are incensed at the lies and hypocrisy of the Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) of the G-8 following the summit in Evian. CND full heartedly agree with aims to end the proliferation of nuclear weapons yet are dismayed by the statements and actions of the NWS in particular those from the UK and US governments. The G-8 applied pressure on North Korea and Iran to abandon its covert nuclear weapons programmes, yet the US scrapped commitments to the ABM Treaty, are in the process of ending their requirements to the Comprehensive Test Ban (CTB) Treaty - all in direct violation of its obligations to the Non-Proliferation Treaty-(NPT). .......More

	Revelations Show WMD Claims Just An Excuse For War		GLOBAL NETNEWS	May 30, 2003
	1. WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz Independent, UK May 30 2. Robin Cook: Britain must not be suckered a second time by the White House - The British government needs to concede that we went to war for reasons of US foreign policy and Republican Party politics Independent, UK May 30 3. British, US claims on Iraq's WMD could be intelligence blunder Straits Times, Singapore May 30 4. Government blames spies over war Independent, UK May 30 ..........More

Nuclear Road to Armageddon	by Robert Scheer	May 13, 2003
Bush's bid for new kinds of weapons could put the world on a suicidal course. It turns out the threat is not from Iraq but from us. More

Corporate Media and Homeland Security	by Peter Phillips	April 27, 2003
Move towards Total Information Control. Freedom of information in American society is in danger because corporate media needs to maintain access to official sources of news. Consolidation of media has brought the total news sources for most Americans to less than a handful and these news groups have an ever-increasing dependency on pre-arranged content.

BLIX ON BUSH: I WAS UNDERMINED	by David Usborne in New York	April 23, 2003
For the first time since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, confronted the Americans openly yesterday, accusing the Bush administration of lacking credibility in its efforts to hunt down Iraq's banned weapons.


THE DETERRENCE DELUSION	by Praful Bidwai	April 11, 2003
Last February, Al-Saadi took Colin Powell to task for his allegations, presented solemnly to the Security Council, concerning persuasive "evidence" of Iraq's WMD. Al-Saadi audaciously, but confidently, claimed that some of the evidence cited was fabricated. And sure enough, it turned out a month later -- and the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed this -- that the "evidence", for example, of Iraq's attempts to buy uranium from Niger, indeed involved despicable, crude forgery. ...More

	Practice to Deceive		Joshua Micah Marshall	April 2003
	Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan. Ever since the neo-cons burst upon the public policy scene 30 years ago, their movement has been a marriage of moral idealism, military assertiveness, and deception. .....More

They do not know what they are doing or why they are doing it	by Robert Fisk	March 31, 2003
Every day public statements on the war are made with great bravado by British and US leaders. A day later most of them turn out to be inaccurate or untrue. Political leaders are understandably evasive about the detailed military strategy, but these evasions and inaccuracies have nothing to do with the movements of the troops.

	The Day Bush cited as of Kurdish Gas Massacre is the Day of My Lai Massacre		Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere	March 16, 2003
	In his radio address on March 15, "DUBYA" Bush reminded his listeners the next day to be the 15th "bitter anniversary" of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons attack on the Iraqi Kurdish village of Halabja. Bush reportedly called Saddam as one of the "most cruel dictator in the history". But in fact it is the USA that militarily helped and equipped Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. And it is American LaFarge company that provided Iraq with chemical weapon materials. It is reported that "Papa" Bush was the owner and Hillary Clinton was a director of this company. Moreover, the very claim that Kurdish people of Halabja were killed by Iraq's toxic gas was found to be fake. ......More

	INNER WORKINGS OF WAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE	by John R. McArthur		March 21-23, 2003
	The first time that a President Bush sold a war against Saddam Hussein, the PR package came wrapped in the flesh and blood of babies torn from incubators. ......More

	US-UK Lies on Iraq Exposed		by John Pilger, Daily Mirror	March 13, 2003
	The Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997, that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were almost certainly destroyed following the Gulf War. Of all the pro-war propaganda of Blair and Bush, and their current threats giving Saddam Hussein yet another deadline to disarm, what may be their biggest lie is exposed by this revelation. ....More

	The Diversion of Rhetoric Over Reason		by Selwyn Manning	March 7, 2003
	Yes the religious card is being played from both sides of this crisis. Yet each week even more disturbing reports emerge. Like from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention where US President George W. Bush was described as “God's chosen man”. Bush sat, listened, then stood up empowered and proclaimed that the imminent American attack on Iraq will be one of Christian morality, that this attack would be, "in the highest moral traditions of our country [the USA]". Scoop

U.S. WAR & PLANETARY EMPIRE by William Rivers Pitt	Truth Out	February 27, 2003
Blood Money
George W. Bush gave a speech Wednesday night before the Godfather of conservative Washington think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute. In his speech, Bush quantified his coming war with Iraq as part of a larger struggle to bring pro-western governments into power in the Middle East. Couched in hopeful language describing peace and freedom for all, the speech was in fact the closest articulation of the actual plan for Iraq that has yet been heard from the administration.

	US INTELLIGENCE ON WMD IN IRAQ	by Larry Ross	February 24, 2003
	Why this is so important is that the US is preparing to wage a massive war, perhaps involving some 500,000 casualties and severe other consequences, on the basis of "garbage" intelligence. This is now looking truer than ever

Comment	by Larry Ross	June 29, 2004
Are the ‘Neocons’ Conning Us?	by Phillip Lindsay	February 22, 2004 posting
Recently I wrote a piece giving the pros and cons for the invasion of Iraq, declaring myself on the pro side at the time. No sooner had I sent that email I had a quite powerful insight into what could also be going on, something I had been observing for a while, yet hoping against hope that it was not true. Instead of swinging back to the other pole and polarising with a new point of view, I choose to observe from the centre now and try to ask the right questions. In reflection I wondered whether my original piece and the many of those who agreed with me on it was a justification for simply a lack of being informed, or feeling that one had to take a stand one way or the other, based upon what scant information we may have had at our disposal.

	AMERICA'S NEW NUCLEAR STRATEGY	*Daily Times Pakistan*	February, 2003
	So Journalists should not tell the truth now?? Brushing aside the embarrassing failure of US troops to find the weapons he made the centrepiece of his case for military action, Bush said the invasion thwarted future plots against the United States by “madman” Saddam Hussein. “Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat. He possessed and he used weapons of mass destruction,” he declared here. “I was not about to leave the security of the United States to the desires and hopes of this madman.”

MI6 and the CIA The New Enemy Within	by Raymond Whitaker	February 9, 2003
Comment	by Larry Ross	October 15, 2003
.....since this article, exposed that Bush and Blair were cherry-picking their intelligence agencies reports to justify war with Iraq. After the war, many more daming reports have come out that Bush and Blair, not only cooked and altered intelligence to frighten their publics into supporting war, they actually invented lies to further frighten them.

	The Big Lie about Saddam Gassing the Kurds		Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere, NY Times	January 31, 2003
	A War Crime or an Act of War? MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — It was no surprise that President Bush, lacking smoking-gun evidence of Iraq's weapons programs, used his State of the Union address to re-emphasize the moral case for an invasion: "The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured." ........More

	Israel, American Jews, And Bush's War On Iraq	By Bill and Kathleen Christon Former CIA political analysts	January 26, 2003
	Too Many Smoking Guns To Ignore Most of the vociferously pro-Israeli neo-conservative policymakers in the Bush administration make no effort to hide the fact that at least part of their intention in promoting war against Iraq (and later perhaps against Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Palestinians) is to guarantee Israel's security by eliminating its greatest military threats, forging a regional balance of power overwhelmingly in Israel's favor, and in general creating a more friendly atmosphere for Israel in the Middle East. Still holds true

In this new age, there's no such thing as a 'nonlethal' weapon	by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg & Mark L. Wheelis	December 9, 2002
So-called non-lethal weapons are more dangerous than nuclear weapons The same technological revolution that is accelerating the development of new medical products is also making it possible for coercive regimes to manipulate human beings by altering their psychological processes, controlling their behavior, interfering with reproduction or tampering with inheritance - and even to do so without the knowledge of the victims. The risks for humanity go far beyond the threat of terrorism. We are on the verge of an arms race sparked by the misleading term nonlethal - coined to sell this weaponry to the public - and the Moscow hostage crisis, an excuse for nations to acquire such weapons. www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/4697407.htm

	Follow links for greater depth. The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.