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White House lied lied LIED about Iraq threat
Misadministration officials "systematically misrepresented" the threat from Iraq's imaginary weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to war, according to a new report to be published on Thursday. In other words, they LIED. Just...say it!!
These distortions, combined with intelligence failures, exaggerated the risks posed by a country that presented no immediate threat to the US, Middle East or global security, the report says.
The study from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concludes that, though the long-term threat from Iraq could not be ignored, it was being effectively contained by a combination of UN weapons inspections, international sanctions and limited US-led military action.
It says the evidence shows that although Iraq retained ambitions to develop weapons of mass destruction, almost all of what had been built had been destroyed long before the war.
The study from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concludes that, though the long-term threat from Iraq could not be ignored, it was being effectively contained by a combination of UN weapons inspections, international sanctions and limited US-led military action.
It says the evidence shows that although Iraq retained ambitions to develop weapons of mass destruction, almost all of what had been built had been destroyed long before the war.
Meanwhile, in Britain - where people seem to have more brains - Tony 'Piddles' Blair suffered another heavy blow over Iraq with "authoritative charges" that the US government "sexed up" (lied about, damn it!!!) the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, London's Evening Standard is reporting.
Did you know? Somewhere between 14,000 and 22,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have been medically evacuated from Iraq to the USA.
"Was the price our warriors paid in blood worth the outcome? Are we any safer than before our pre-emptive invasion? Even though Saddam is in the slammer and the fourth-largest army in the world is junkyard scrap, Christmas 2003 was resolutely Orange, and 2004 looks like more of the same. Or worse. Our first New Year's resolution should be to find out if the stated reasons for our pre-emptive strike -- Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction and Saddam's connection with al-Qaeda -- constituted a real threat to our national security. Because, contrary to public opinion, the present administration hasn't yet made the case that Saddam and his sadists aided and abetted al-Qaeda's attacks on 9/11. We also need to know why our $30 billion-a-year intelligence agencies didn't read the tea leaves correctly." - - David Hackworth.
Also today, another Black Hawk helicopter went down in Iraq, killing all eight people onboard. Oh yeah, and the US weapons search team has withdrawn after finding nothing. No wmd. Nada. Zip. Squat.
Plus...
Halliburton has been given the OK to supply fuel to Iraq WITHOUT giving price data required under US contracting regulations.
The Army has allowed Halliburton to increase the supplies of fuel delivered to Iraq without giving the usual data to justify its cost, a spokesman said Tuesday. The Army Corps of Engineers did not exonerate Dick Cheney's "former" company in a dispute with the Pentagon over fuel prices, Army corps spokesman Ross Adkins said Tuesday, but their decision does mean that Halliburton subsidiary KBR does not have to provide price figures for the increased flow of gasoline and kerosene it buys in Kuwait and delivers to Iraqi civilian markets.
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