To: Michelino who wrote (774 ) 6/10/2003 12:25:01 PM From: Don Earl Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 20039 Michelino, Thanks for the link. I doubt it will have much affect on LPS5, but anyone who was paying attention is well aware the Bush administration engaged in a massive propaganda campaign to gain support from the American people to launch an illegal invasion without any kind of legitimate moral justification. The truly criminal part is the American media is as much to blame for the spread of disinformation as the President, and continues to hide the facts. This current AP article is a good example:story.news.yahoo.com This is about the 10th time in several days I've seen Powell quoted on the reliability of the evidence presented to the security council, but not one article has pointed out that the majority of Powell's "irrefutable" evidence was almost instantly debunked by the security council as bogus. Bush keeps talking about "freedom" for the Iraqi people and how much better off they are now, but no one talks about a thousand civilians killed, many more civilians maimed for life, an undisclosed number of Iraqi patriots killed defending their country, the Iraqis whose homes were destroyed, thousands of tons of depleted uranium spread across the major population centers, disease, hunger, looting, and the list goes on. And no one has bothered to even hint that it's an American principal to have evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt before passing a death sentence. Shoot first and inspect later is hardly an example of democracy. The fact is Iraq was within a matter of weeks away from proving there were no WMDs in the country before Bush launched his attack. Bush didn't strike until he was sure Iraq was defenseless, and now $100 billion of the income of American tax payers goes strait into the pockets of Bush cartel special interests, along with the oil that belongs to Iraq.