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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (791)	6/12/2003 12:32:25 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Ray, Interesting commentary. Do you know if the documentary is available anywhere? On another note, the propaganda machine is hard at work this morning doctoring the truth. story.news.yahoo.com <<<WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Central Intelligence Agency did not share with the White House a report in early 2002 saying that allegations about Iraq trying to obtain uranium from Africa were false. Quoted in the Washington Post, an unidentified senior CIA official attributed the failure to "extremely sloppy" handling of key evidence backing the White House's case against Iraq, but for another CIA analyst, the case pointed in another direction. "Information not consistent with the administration agenda was discarded and information that was (consistent) was not seriously scrutinized," the analyst told the Post. The revelation is the latest update in the growing controversy over the US government's alleged attempts to manipulate information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to justify the US-led war to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The CIA in February 2002 sent a retired US ambassador to Iraq to investigate claims that Iraqi officials had sought to buy uranium from Niger one or two years earlier. The envoy reported back to the CIA that the story was false and that a series of letters about the alleged purchase between Iraqi and Niger officials may have been forged. The envoy's conclusions, however, were not included in the CIA's intelligence reports it shared with other US government agencies. The CIA merely said Niger officials had denied that the attempted purchase had taken place. Unaware of the CIA's report, US President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address in January mentioned Iraq's attempts at purchasing uranium in Niger, to support his contention that Hussein was pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program. The Niger evidence, however, was excluded from US Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 5 address to the UN Security Council because it was considered inaccurate, sources told the daily.>>> AFP was beginning to catch my attention as being a more reliable source, but this piece pretty well shoots that down in flames. It certainly has a Reuters style write first ask questions later flavor. I'd rate this one a "1" on the 1 to 5 scale. I especially liked the last paragraph which conveniently forgets about Powell sitting in the Security Council with egg all over his face while everyone made fun of his presentation of bogus "irrefutable proof". It was the head of the Security Council who pointed out the obvious forgery after the presentation. I recall the situation surrounding the "irrefutable proof" presentation. UN inspectors had been searching all over Iraq for several months while Saddam was falling all over himself trying to cooperate with inspectors to keep his country from being blown to pieces. The Bush Cartel was hitting the media on a daily basis making the most wild, unsubstantiated accusations imaginable. Polls were showing Bush ratings were in the dumpster because even the most unenlightened Americans were asking why Bush wasn't providing proof to the UN if there really was proof. The Bush Cartel spent several weeks issuing coming attraction PRs about the wonderful "irrefutable proof" they were going to dazzle everyone with, while they frantically dug through a near total absence of evidence in order to fabricate a story the average chump might fall for. The bogus Niger uranium purchase "evidence" almost had to be included, since it was the key piece presented to Congress to get authority to attack Iraq in the first place. So, now we start playing the "Bush din know nutthin'" game. Forget the fact America had spent most of the past year explaining how CEOs of public companies were responsible for information presented to shareholders, and passing legislation to hold the top dog responsible for that informations' authenticity. Forget the fact James Baker of Carlyle Group, along with every major oil player in the US and UK, had presented the Bush Cartel with a program on how to take control of Iraqi oil, using WMDs as an excuse, 6 months before 9/11. Forget the fact that any left over stockpiles of biological or chemical weapons Iraq may have had in the past, had long since deteriorated into harmless goo. And by all means ignore the fact that when the President of the United States makes the call to murder innocent people, he is responsible. The position of ultimate trust is also the position of ultimate accountability. George Bush is a traitor and his head belongs on a pole in front of the White House to remind every future American President there is a price to pay for treason against the American people.