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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (437435)	8/1/2003 11:11:18 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hey, who is that yahoo in the photo on that page? Looks like a Saddam double from here. :)

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (437435)	9/24/2003 7:08:38 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

proof of WMD lies By Paul Mulvey in London September 23, 2003 AUSTRALIAN investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them. A television report by Pilger aired on British screens overnight said US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice confirmed in early 2001 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been disarmed and was no threat. But after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 that year, Pilger claimed Rice said the US "must move to take advantage of these new opportunities" to attack Iraq and claim control of its oil. Pilger uncovered video footage of Powell in Cairo on February 24, 2001 saying, "He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours." Two months later, Rice reportedly said, "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt." Powell boasted this was because America's policy of containment and its sanctions had effectively disarmed Saddam. Pilger claims this confirms that the decision of US President George W Bush - with the full support of British Prime Minister Blair and Howard - to wage war on Saddam because he had weapons of mass destruction was a huge deception. Pilger interviewed several leading US government figures in Washington but said he did not ask Powell or Rice to respond to his claims. "I think it's very serious for Howard. Howard has followed the Americans and to a lesser degree Blair almost word for word," Pilger told AAP before his program was screened on ITV tonight. "All Howard does is say `well it's not true' and never explains himself. "I just don't believe you can be seen to be party to such a big lie, such a big deception and endure that politically. "It simply can't be shrugged off and that's Howard's response. "Blair has shrugged it off but Blair is deeply damaged. It's far from over here, there's a lot that is going to happen and much of it could wash onto Howard. "And it's unravelling in America and Bush could lose the election next year. "I've not seen political leaders survive when they've been complicit in such an open deception for so long." Howard last week dismissed an accusation from Opposition Leader Simon Crean that he hid a warning from British intelligence that war against Iraq would heighten the terrorist threat to Australia. news.com.au^2,00.html