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"Harry Hope" |
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The floor is giving way under puppet George W. Bush and his gang of puppeteers. |
From The Associated Press, 7/10/03:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030710_145.html
Experts Accuse U.S. of Misrepresentation
Arms Control, Intelligence Experts Accuse U.S. of Misrepresenting
Information on Iraq
WASHINGTON July 10 --
As President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended
their invasion of Iraq, a group of arms control experts accused the
administration of misrepresenting intelligence information to justify
the war.
When the war began in March, Iraq posed no threat to the United States
or to its neighbors, a former senior State Department intelligence
official said Wednesday.
Its missiles could not reach Israel, Saudi Arabia or Iran, said Greg
Thielmann, who held a high post in the Bureau of Intelligence and
Research.
But Thielmann, one of four critics at a session held by the private
Arms Control Association, said the Bush administration had formed a
"faith-based" policy on Iraq and took the approach that "we know the
answers; give us the intelligence to support those answers."
Bush, at a news conference in South Africa, said he was "absolutely
confident" in going to war against Iraq despite the discovery that
allegations Saddam Hussein had sought uranium in Africa for a nuclear
weapons program was based on fabricated information.
"There's no doubt in my mind that when it's all said and done the
facts will show the world the truth," Bush said.
"There's going to be, you know, a lot of attempts to try to rewrite
history, and I can understand that. But I'm absolutely confident in
the decision I made."
In Washington, Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee that
the administration decided to use military force in Iraq because the
information about the threat of Saddam's regime was seen with a
different perspective after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic
new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder," Rumsfeld
said.
"We acted because we saw the existing evidence in a new light through
the prism of our experience on Sept. 11."
Under questioning from Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Rumsfeld said he did
not know how much the administration would propose to pay for
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the new budget year that begins
Oct. 1.
He said under the $62.4 billion midyear spending bill, the United
States expects to spend an average $3.9 billion a month on Iraq from
January through September this year.
An average of $700 million a month is being spent in Afghanistan.
Thielmann said the administration had distorted intelligence to fit
its policy purposes.
He said Iraq had no active nuclear weapons program and that while CIA
Director George Tenet told Congress Iraq had Scud missiles, the
intelligence finding actually was that the missiles could not be
accounted for.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, said 1,044 American servicemen and women have
been wounded in action or injured since the war in Iraq began March
20.
Of that total, 382 have been wounded or injured since Bush declared
major combat over on May 1, according to the Pentagon's figures.
Of the 212 U.S. troops who have died in Iraq since the war began, 74
died after May 1.
The Army's 3rd Infantry Division is beginning a phased pullout of its
16,000 troops, with the entire unit expected back in the United States
by September, Rumsfeld told the committee.
The division, which played a central role in capturing Baghdad in
April, is based at Fort Stewart, Ga.
In the immediate aftermath of the toppling of Saddam's government in
April, it was expected that the 3rd Infantry Division would go home by
June.
But the soldiers were kept longer because of a surge of anti-U.S.
violence in Baghdad and elsewhere in central Iraq.
Rumsfeld said there are now 148,000 American troops in Iraq.
He did not say whether the 3rd Infantry Division would be replaced by
another U.S. unit, although he said he expects thousands of
international soldiers to begin operating in the country by late
summer or early fall.
Democrats pressed Rumsfeld about whether the administration
specifically requested forces from NATO.
Rumsfeld said his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, made a formal request for
postwar assistance in December
"None since the war?" asked Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the
committee's top Democrat.
"I have no idea," Rumsfeld said, offering to find out.
At the Arms Control Association session Wednesday, Gregory V.
Treverton, a senior analyst at Rand, a government-financed research
group, challenged what he said was the administration's persistent
description of intelligence as evidence when it often is a qualified
judgment.
But the administration extracted from the data the "best bumper
stickers" it could fashion, said the former vice chair of the National
Intelligence Council.
Joseph Cirincione, a proliferation expert at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, credited U.N. inspectors with doing a good
job of finding weapons in Iraq and having them dismantled.
But he said the administration in its statements made the inspectors
"look like fools" and went far beyond U.S. intelligence findings on
Iraq.
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There's nothing one needs to add to this article. It says it all.
Harry
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10 Jul 2003 10:19:53 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Associated Press, 7/10/03:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030710_145.html
Experts Accuse U.S. of Misrepresentation
Arms Control, Intelligence Experts Accuse U.S. of Misrepresenting
Information on Iraq
WASHINGTON July 10 --
CBS news here in Los Angeles at 5:30 today, channel 2 stated in a
"breaking news!" coverage that Bush lied about the Nigerial uranium.
Amazing. When CBS -- Christian Broadcasting Station -- covers the
baby killer's lies, you know it's unraveling.
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