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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (1879)	9/20/2003 10:39:06 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Respond to of 22250

Iraq War a FRAUD - "This whole thing was a fraud" '' 'There was no imminent threat... This whole thing was a fraud'... Kennedy also said the Bush administration has failed to account for nearly half of the $4 billion the war is costing each month. He said he believes much of the unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send in troops." MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 19 September 2003: Actually Senator Ted Kennedy is not fully on the mark about this one. He like nearly all in the Washington establishment these days is guilty of a significant sin of ommission, one the politicians and their intertwined media colleagues in Washington are so accustomed to that it is far too easily overlooked. OK, fair enough, we all should thank the senior Senator for being somewhat bold and actually using clearly the "fraud" word; even if the proverbial "much too little much too late" still applies in this case. But even so, there's another major angle to this story, and hardly anyone in official Washington, or in the corporate mass media, wants to touch this 'third rail' of American politics. For this "fraudulent" Iraq War and the disingenous crusade for 'democracy' -- all very much coupled with the dishonest "Roadmap" that also has been carefully coordinated by Bush and Sharon in the many meetings they've held at the White House and elsewhere in the past few years -- were very much partially made and manipulated in Israel and transmitted into the American political system through the many personalities and organizations that make up the extensive Israeli/Jewish lobby in Washington. Now of course some of these meetings took place with President George on his Crawford ranch, so Senator Teddy is technically right to highlight the Lone Star State of "Texas". But another of the usually unspoken realities of Washington these days is that nearly everyone in public life -- and that very much includes the members of Congress who remember what happened to some of their more illustrious colleagues of yesteryear -- fear speaking up to implicate the Israelis and their powerful Washington-based lobby as some know they should and wish they could. BOSTON (AP): Case for going to war against Iraq a "fraud" By Steve Leblanc, Associated Press BOSTON (AP - 18 Sept 2003) The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud ''made up in Texas'' to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward Kennedy said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy also said the Bush administration has failed to account for nearly half of the $4 billion the war is costing each month. He said he believes much of the unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send in troops. He called the Bush administration's current Iraq policy ''adrift.'' The White House declined to comment Thursday. The Massachusetts Democrat also expressed doubts about how serious a threat Saddam Hussein posed to the United States in its battle against terrorism. He said administration officials relied on ''distortion, misrepresentation, a selection of intelligence'' to justify their case for war. ''There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud,'' Kennedy said. Kennedy said a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office showed that only about $2.5 billion of the $4 billion being spent monthly on the war can be accounted for by the Bush administration. ''My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to send in troops,'' he said. Of the $87 billion in new money requested by President Bush for the war, Kennedy said the administration should be required to report back to the Congress to account for the spending. ''We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there ... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report,'' he added. Kennedy said the focus on Iraq has drawn the nation's attention away from more direct threats, including al-Qaida, instability in Afghanistan or the nuclear ambitions of North Korea. ''I think all of those pose a threat to the security of the people of Massachusetts much more than the threat from Iraq,'' Kennedy said. ''Terror has been put on the sidelines for the last 12 months.'' Kennedy was one of 23 senators who voted last October against authorizing Bush to use military force to disarm Iraq. Earlier this year, he supported a Democratic amendment that would have delayed most of the president's proposed tax cuts, and most spending increases, until the administration provided cost estimates for the Iraq war. The amendment failed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MER - IF you don't get it, you just don't get IT To receive MER free and easy email to MERList@MiddleEast.Org with subject subscribe Comment on this and other articles in the MER FORUM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ © 2003 Mid-East Realities, All rights reserved