Crimson and Clover
03-25-2003, 04:55 PM
ForgeryGate: What Did Bush Know, and When Did He Know It?
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is outraged that Bush lied to the American people and the world about Iraq's alleged efforts to purchase uranium from Niger. Waxman compiled all of the facts and sent a stinging letter to Bush: "I urge you to provide to me and to the relevant committees of Congress a full accounting of what you knew about the reliability of the evidence linking Iraq to uranium in Africa, when you knew this, and why you and senior officials in the Administration presented the evidence to the U.N. Security Council, the Congress, and the American people without disclosing the doubts of the CIA." As Tom Engelhardt points out, this letter has received NO media coverage. We demand a Special Prosecutor for ForgeryGate!
http://www.house.gov/waxman/text/admin_iraq_march_17_let.htm
Another Bush-Hitler Parallel: Forging Evidence to Justify Conquest
Rightwinger Paul Craig Roberts writes, " Will Bush be impeached? Will he be called a war criminal? These are not hyperbolic questions. Mr. Bush has permitted a small cadre of neoconservatives to isolate him from world opinion, putting him at odds with the UN and America's allies... The administration's use of forged evidence opens Mr. Bush to unflattering comparisons that his enemies will not hesitate to make. They will point out that it was Adolf Hitler's strategy to fabricate evidence in order to justify his invasion of a helpless country. He used S.S. troops dressed in Polish uniforms to fake an attack on the German radio station at Gleiwitz on Aug. 31, 1939. Following the faked attack, Hitler announced: 'This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory.' As German troops poured into Poland, Hitler declared: 'The Polish state has refused the peaceful settlement of relations which I desired, and has appealed to arms.'"
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030320-75800736.htm
UN Weapons Inspectors Are Furious over Bu**** and Lies
Mercury News reports, "As UN nuclear inspectors flee Iraq, some of them are angry at the Bush administration for cutting short their work, bad-mouthing their efforts and making false claims about evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Some inspectors are 'scandalized' at the way Bush and Colin Powell, among others, have 'politicized' the inspection process. None of the nuclear-related intelligence trumpeted by the administration has held up to scrutiny, inspectors say. From suspect aluminum tubes to aerial photographs to documents -- revealed to be forgeries -- that claimed to link Iraq to uranium from Niger, inspectors say they chased U.S. leads that went nowhere and wasted valuable time in their efforts to determine the extent of Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons banned after the 1991 Persian Gulf War... Inspectors [arrived] as hawks and leave as doves, after finding Iraq 'a ruined country, not a threat to anyone.' It is a view radically different than the administration's."
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5418901.htm
Bush's 20 Lies for W-ar
Patrick Martin writes, "Monday night's 15-minute speech by President Bush, setting a 48-hour deadline for war against Iraq, went beyond the usual distortions, half-truths, and appeals to fear and backwardness to include a remarkable number of barefaced, easily refuted lies. The enormous scale of the lying suggests two political conclusions: the Bush administration is going to war against Iraq with utter contempt for democracy and public opinion, and its war propaganda counts heavily on the support of the American media, which not only fails to challenge the lies, but repeats and reinforces them endlessly. Without attempting to be exhaustive, it is worthwhile listing some of the most important lies and contrasting Bush's assertions with the public record. All of the false statements listed below are directly quoted from the verbatim transcript of Bush's remarks published on the Internet."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/bush-m20.shtml
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is outraged that Bush lied to the American people and the world about Iraq's alleged efforts to purchase uranium from Niger. Waxman compiled all of the facts and sent a stinging letter to Bush: "I urge you to provide to me and to the relevant committees of Congress a full accounting of what you knew about the reliability of the evidence linking Iraq to uranium in Africa, when you knew this, and why you and senior officials in the Administration presented the evidence to the U.N. Security Council, the Congress, and the American people without disclosing the doubts of the CIA." As Tom Engelhardt points out, this letter has received NO media coverage. We demand a Special Prosecutor for ForgeryGate!
http://www.house.gov/waxman/text/admin_iraq_march_17_let.htm
Another Bush-Hitler Parallel: Forging Evidence to Justify Conquest
Rightwinger Paul Craig Roberts writes, " Will Bush be impeached? Will he be called a war criminal? These are not hyperbolic questions. Mr. Bush has permitted a small cadre of neoconservatives to isolate him from world opinion, putting him at odds with the UN and America's allies... The administration's use of forged evidence opens Mr. Bush to unflattering comparisons that his enemies will not hesitate to make. They will point out that it was Adolf Hitler's strategy to fabricate evidence in order to justify his invasion of a helpless country. He used S.S. troops dressed in Polish uniforms to fake an attack on the German radio station at Gleiwitz on Aug. 31, 1939. Following the faked attack, Hitler announced: 'This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory.' As German troops poured into Poland, Hitler declared: 'The Polish state has refused the peaceful settlement of relations which I desired, and has appealed to arms.'"
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030320-75800736.htm
UN Weapons Inspectors Are Furious over Bu**** and Lies
Mercury News reports, "As UN nuclear inspectors flee Iraq, some of them are angry at the Bush administration for cutting short their work, bad-mouthing their efforts and making false claims about evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Some inspectors are 'scandalized' at the way Bush and Colin Powell, among others, have 'politicized' the inspection process. None of the nuclear-related intelligence trumpeted by the administration has held up to scrutiny, inspectors say. From suspect aluminum tubes to aerial photographs to documents -- revealed to be forgeries -- that claimed to link Iraq to uranium from Niger, inspectors say they chased U.S. leads that went nowhere and wasted valuable time in their efforts to determine the extent of Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons banned after the 1991 Persian Gulf War... Inspectors [arrived] as hawks and leave as doves, after finding Iraq 'a ruined country, not a threat to anyone.' It is a view radically different than the administration's."
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5418901.htm
Bush's 20 Lies for W-ar
Patrick Martin writes, "Monday night's 15-minute speech by President Bush, setting a 48-hour deadline for war against Iraq, went beyond the usual distortions, half-truths, and appeals to fear and backwardness to include a remarkable number of barefaced, easily refuted lies. The enormous scale of the lying suggests two political conclusions: the Bush administration is going to war against Iraq with utter contempt for democracy and public opinion, and its war propaganda counts heavily on the support of the American media, which not only fails to challenge the lies, but repeats and reinforces them endlessly. Without attempting to be exhaustive, it is worthwhile listing some of the most important lies and contrasting Bush's assertions with the public record. All of the false statements listed below are directly quoted from the verbatim transcript of Bush's remarks published on the Internet."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/bush-m20.shtml