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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4745)	1/31/2003 2:54:39 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

ANOTHER BIG LIE In March of last year, the New Yorker published a piece by Jeffrey Goldberg -- The Great Terror -- which described in chilling detail the devastation caused by gas attacks in the town Halabja, in northern Iraq. This piece was repeatedly cited by both Bush and Cheney in building their case for war. Cheney went on Meet the Press and called the article "devastating." He went on: "Specifically, its description of what happened in 1988 when Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds in northern Iraq, against some of his own people. It demonstrates conclusively what a lot of us have said: that this is a man who is a great danger to that region of the world—especially if he's able to acquire nuclear weapons." Bush lauded the article's "details about [Saddam's] barbaric behavior toward his own people." Bush went on to say: "this is a man who refuses to allow us to determine whether or not he still has weapons of mass destruction—which leads me to believe he does." Both of these men know that the State Department, the Defense Department and NSA all had serious doubts about this neat scenario and all disgorged intelligence that labeled Iran as the culprit. The DIA even came out within days of the attack naming Iran as responsible. If Bush and Cheney do not know about this intelligence -- some of which is again cited in today's NYT piece -- they have even more to answer for. M2