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> VTR <vexjorge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Read more of William Rivers Pitt's columns
>> Remember: They Are Liars
>> By William Rivers Pitt
>> t r u t h o u t | Columnist Tuesday 08 April 2008
>>
>> No one is such a liar as the indignant man. - Friedrich Nietzsche
>>
>> George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz,
>> Condoleezza Rice, along with a slew of administration underlings
>> and a revolving-door cavalcade of brass hats from the Pentagon,
>> have been making claims regarding Iraq for many years now.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax,
>> "enough to kill several million people," according to a page on the
>> White House web site titled Disarm Saddam Hussein.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq was in possession of 38,000 liters of botulinum
>> toxin.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq was in possession of 500 tons, which equals
>> 1,000,000 pounds, of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq was in possession of nearly 30,000 munitions
>> capable of delivering these agents.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq was in possession of several mobile biological
>> weapons labs.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq was operating an "advanced" nuclear weapons
>> program.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq had been seeking "significant quantities" of
>> uranium from Africa for use in this "advanced" nuclear weapons
>> program.
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed Iraq attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes
>> "suitable for nuclear weapons."
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> They claimed America needed to invade, overthrow and occupy Iraq
>> in order to remove this menace from our world. "It would take just
>> one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country," went
>> the White House line, "to bring a day of horror like none we have
>> ever known."
>>
>> They lied.
>>
>> "Simply stated," said Dick Cheney in August of 2002, "there is no
>> doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "Right now," said George W. Bush in September of 2002, "Iraq is
>> expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production
>> of nuclear weapons."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "We know for a fact," said White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
>> in January of 2003, "that there are weapons there."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of
>> mass destruction," said Colin Powell in February of 2003, "is
>> determined to make more."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "We know where they are," said Donald Rumsfeld in March of 2003.
>> "They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad, and east, south,
>> west and north somewhat."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "The Iraqi people understand what this crisis is about," said Paul
>> Wolfowitz in March of 2003. "Like the people of France in the 1940s,
>> they view us as their hoped-for liberator."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "No one ever said that we knew precisely where all of these agents
>> were," said Condoleezza Rice in June of 2003, "where they were
>> stored."
>>
>> Liar.
>>
>> "I have absolute confidence that there are weapons of mass destruction
>> inside this country," said Gen. Tommy Franks in April of 2003.
>> "Whether we will turn out, at the end of the day, to find them in
>> one of the 2,000 or 3,000 sites we already know about or whether
>> contact with one of these officials who we may come in contact with
>> will tell us, 'Oh, well, there's actually another site,' and we'll
>> find it there, I'm not sure."
>>
>> Wrong.
>>
>> "Before the war," said Gen. Michael Hagee in May of 2003, "there's
>> no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
>> destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found.
>> I still expect them to be found."
>>
>> Wrong.
>>
>> "Given time," said Gen. Richard Myers in May of 2003, "given the
>> number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident
>> that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction."
>>
>> Wrong.
>>
>> "Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do,"
>> said Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton in May of 2003, "because I think there's
>> a lot of information out there."
>>
>> Wrong.
>>
>> Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Iraq, is about to
>> give testimony before the Senate regarding the current state of
>> affairs in that battle-savaged country. He is a political general,
>> one of many America has seen and heard over the last five years,
>> one who would leap **** from the Capitol dome before telling the
>> real truth about matters in Iraq ... or who would speak using words
>> fed to him by liars, and thus be wrong.
>>
>> Remember: they lie. They all lie, from the top man down to the
>> bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding. If they say
>> water is wet, get into the shower to make sure.
>>
>> They lie.
>>
>> Period.
>>
>> End of file.
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> William Rivers Pitt is a New York Times and internationally
>> bestselling author of two
>> books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The
>> Greatest Sedition Is
>> Silence." His newest book, "House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War,
>> Lies,
>> and America's
>> Ravaged Reputation," is now available from PoliPointPress.
>
> They convinced Saudi Arabia that Iraq was going to attack by using
> doctored satellite photos showing Iraqi tanks lined up on the border.
> This influenced Saudi Arabia to allow the US to put a base there. It was
> the presense of US troops on Saudi soil that really ticked Osama off and
> motivated him to set up 9/11.
>
wrong war.
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