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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7968)	2/13/2003 10:58:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

You are not too well informed about this situation. Actually the Blair/Powell team dummied the information, they just took the rhetoric. The British dossier used Al-Marashi's info as well as info from Jane's Defense Weekly. Powell didn't use either. You don't even seem to know what material was plagiarized. The author's position is that a war is not justified. The author of most of the plagiarized material, Ibriham Al-Marashi, does in fact support the removal of Saddam Hussein and has said so to the press (see below). Though Boyne, the writer for Jane's, apparently doesn't. Al-Marashi, who is now a researcher at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California and a student of Iraqi intelligence at Oxford University in Britain, said that he was annoyed his work was plagiarized, but that the work is accurate. He said entire passages were taken from his work verbatim - grammatical errors included. He also said that, had Blair's people consulted him, he "could have provided them with more updated information." But he said he hoped the controversy would not cast aspersions on Powell's presentation, especially since Powell mentioned the British report but did not use material from it for the presentation. "The worry I have is that this might be used to tarnish Powell's report and jeopardize his argument," said al-Marashi, who has never visited Iraq but whose parents immigrated to the United States from Iraq in 1968. "I don't want it to be used for that." newsday.com This administration is not only liars, but bad liars, and ready to kill tens of thousands of children to steal their resources. Nah, that's the French government.