Nothing like a journalist doing their job. Here's a link (via Buzzflash) to an article written by a Pulitizer Prize winner, delineating the Prevarications of Powell (not like he has never lied before, right?). The whole article is here, but enjoy this:
ALUMINUM TUBES: Powell said "most United States experts" believed aluminum tubes sought by Iraq were intended for use as centrifuge cylinders for enriching uranium for nuclear bombs.
Energy Department experts and Powell's own State Department intelligence bureau had already dissented from this CIA view... No centrifuge program has been reported found.
REVIVED NUCLEAR PROGRAM: "We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program," Powell said.
On July 24, Foreign Minister Ana Palacio of Spain, a U.S. ally on Iraq, said there was "no evidence, no proof" of a nuclear bomb program before the war. No such evidence has been reported found since the invasion.
ANTHRAX: Powell noted Iraq had declared it produced 8,500 liters of the biological agent anthrax before 1991. None has been "verifiably accounted for," he said.
No anthrax has been reported found, post-invasion. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), in a confidential report last September (five months before the Powell speech) said that although it believed Iraq had biological weapons it didn't know their nature, amounts, or condition.
UNMANNED AIRCRAFT: Powell showed video of an Iraqi F-1 Mirage jet spraying "simulated anthrax." He said four such spray tanks were unaccounted for, and Iraq was building small unmanned aircraft "well suited for dispensing chemical and biological weapons."
According to U.N. inspectors' reports, the video predated the 1991 Gulf War, when the Mirage was said to have been destroyed, and three of the four spray tanks were destroyed in the 1990s. No small drones or other planes with chemical-biological capability have been reported found in Iraq since the invasion.
Nice to see a member of the SCLM writing the truth. Or at least checking the facts. Perhaps that's why the 1600 Crew is pushing so hard for the "VICTORY Act", to make those nasty ol' reporters be quiet.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.10.03 at 11:57 PM
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UNMANNED AIRCRAFT: Powell showed video of an Iraqi F-1 Mirage jet spraying "simulated anthrax."
That was a simulated Secretary of State, representing a simulated President, winner of a simulated election, making a simulated justification of an invasion of a simulated enemy.
Bring them home. Bring them all home. Now.
posted by: Lurch on 09.11.03 at 02:51 PM [permalink]
The current Repuke talking points now consist of the following: was Saddam a bad man. answer is of course he was. Repuke makes the point: well then, he 's gone. Isn't that what matters.
Repukes then goes home with self-satisfied smile and plays with his well worn Legos while listening to callers to Rush Limbaugh reaffirming how right they were.
All that crap we learned in Philosophy and Logic about truth, rationalism, straw dog arguments, etc. melt in the heat of wing-nut reactionary rhetoric. If the wing-nuts would have listened to people like General Clark and General Zinni we would have made America safer, had few if any casualties in Iraq, Saddam would probably be dead now and an international coalition would be rebuilding Iraq and sharing the cost, we'd have an international team of intelligence experts and special forces focused on terrorism( rather then making money for Halliburton and Bechtel). I have learned from the Bushwhackers that some people just make up their own reality and stick with despite the total failure of same.
posted by: Urkel on 09.12.03 at 02:03 AM [permalink]
