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"~TRUTH 666~" |
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17 Dec 2003 08:44:03 PM |
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Still No WMDS, No Ties to 9/11, No Truth |
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Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth
By Derrick Z. Jackson,
12/17/2003: (Boston Globe) THE INVASION was still a lie. The capture
of Saddam Hussein changes nothing about that. There were too many
forked tongues in the road to his lair. The way we removed the
dictator, we became a global dictatorship.
No major reason for the war has been proven. The deadly WMDs became
weapons of mysterious disappearance. In August 2002, Vice President
Cheney said: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now
has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them
to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
In the 48-hour warning to Saddam on March 17, 2003, Bush said,
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt
that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most
lethal weapons ever devised. . . . The terrorists could fulfill their
stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of
innocent people in our country or any other."
On March 30, a week and a half after the start of the invasion,
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld boasted about the weapons of mass
destruction, "We know where they are. They're in the area around
Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat."
Nine months later, no chemical or biological weapons of mass
destruction have been found.
There were the administration's attempts to tie Saddam to the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. They worked so well that nearly 70
percent of Americans believed Saddam was "personally involved" in the
attacks. On March 21, two days after announcing the invasion, Bush
wrote a letter to congressional leaders in which he said: "The use of
armed force against Iraq is consistent with the United States and
other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against
international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those
nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed,
or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001."
By the fall, after Cheney revived a discredited claim that Sept. 11
hijacker Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraqi intelligence agent prior
to the attacks, Bush was forced to admit, "We've had no evidence that
Saddam Hussein was involved in September the 11th."
Bush scared Americans with fears of an Iraq armed with nuclear
weapons. In his State of the Union address last January, Bush said:
"the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently
sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." That claim had
been discredited months earlier by many US intelligence sources. Bush
used it anyway.
Bush was so successful in putting mortal fear into Americans that
there never was a pause to wonder if this was carnage without cause.
We could not wait for United Nations weapons inspectors to finish
their job. We could not wait for diplomats to try a last appeal. As
with the environment and arms control, there was no attempt to listen
to the world at all. There is a thin line between arrogance and shame.
Because we are the preeminent power in the world, we assumed that our
arrogance would not shame us.
Bush told the world we were going to secure America and liberate
Iraqis at the same time. With no weapons of mass destruction, with no
nuclear weapons, and with no tie to 9/11, Saddam's capture could not
possibly have been worth the lives of 455 US and 80 European soldiers.
With no weapons of mass destruction, no nuclear weapons, and no tie to
9/11, it could not possibly been worth the lives of 7,600 to 45,000
Iraqi soldiers. With no rationale for the invasion, you could consider
this a massacre.
As murderous as Saddam was, an invasion with no reason was not worth
the killing of unknown thousands of Iraqi civilians. At the beginning
of the war, Rumsfeld said: "To the Iraqi people, let me say that the
day of your liberation will soon be at hand." Halliburton has been
liberated to profit off Iraq, but I have yet to read a news report
where a grieving Iraqi family clutches the body of an innocent loved
one and hugs an American soldier in appreciation of their
"liberation."
With no weapons, no ties, and no truth, the capture of Saddam was
merely the most massive and irresponsible police raid in modern times.
We broke in without a search warrant. Civilian deaths constituted
justifiable homicide. America was again above the law. We have taught
the next generation that many wrongs equal a right. In arrogance, we
boasted, "We got him!" The shame is that we feel none for how we got
him. The capture of this dictator, driven by the poison of lies,
turned America itself into a dictator.
Derrick Z. Jackson's e-mail address is jackson@globe.com.
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
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| Title: Reagan, the great white hope of the Repubs, seen as 'strange and upleasant' by Nixon |
18 Dec 2003 05:06:43 PM |
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NATIONAL DESK | December 11, 2003, Thursday
Tapes Show Nixon Was No Reagan Fan
(NYT) 282 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 36 , Column 1
DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 282 WORDS - President Richard M. Nixon was
unimpressed by Ronald Reagan, a fellow California Republican, whom he called
''strange'' and not ''pleasant to be around,'' newly released White House
tapes ... Talking politics with his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, at the
presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., in August 1972,...
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