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

To: Mao II who wrote (4796)	2/1/2003 7:29:07 AM
From: Mao II	Respond to of 25898

How spin works: "BLIX SAID HE SAW NOTHING TO PROMPT A WAR." SAYS ALLEGATIONS BY BOTH POWELL AND BUSH NOT FROM HIS REPORT NOR FROM KNOWN EVIDENCE "Mr. Blix took issue with what he said were Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's claims that the inspectors had found that Iraqi officials were hiding and moving illicit materials within and outside of Iraq to prevent their discovery. He said that the inspectors had reported no such incidents.Similarly, he said, he had not seen convincing evidence that Iraq was sending weapons scientists to Syria, Jordan or any other country to prevent them from being interviewed. Nor had he any reason to believe, as President Bush charged in his State of the Union speech, that Iraqi agents were posing as scientists.He further disputed the Bush administration's allegations that his inspection agency might have been penetrated by Iraqi agents, and that sensitive information might have been leaked to Baghdad, compromising the inspections. Finally, he said, he had seen no persuasive indications of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, which Mr. Bush also mentioned in his speech. More broadly, he challenged President Bush's argument that military action is needed to avoid the risk of a Sept. 11-style attack by terrorists wielding nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. " (from NYT, 1/31/03 But the spin -- which is, in fact, a conglomeration of lies -- has already defined the issue and made the facts of the matter irrelevant. M2