Bush's deception on Iraq

[45th Med]

By BILL MAXWELL, Times Staff Writer

Published January 11, 2004: (St. Petersburg Times)

Most Americans have never heard of the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Group.

Let me bring them up to speed: It is the 400-member military team whose job was to search every inch of Iraq for any and all military equipment. Well, guess what? The Bush administration has quietly pulled the team out of Iraq. Many members are back on U.S. soil, and others have been reassigned to duties related to insurgent fighters in Iraq.

Deception on Iraq

[Skittles]

1. OOH

"As long as this powerful, false notion lives (Saddam-911), the administration will continue to mislead and control a frightened, gullible public. Meanwhile, U.S. and coalition troops and civilians, on both sides, will continue to die in a war that was initiated by George W. Bush - who was going to war no matter what.".

That about says it all.

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2. a war .. initiated by George W. Bush - who was going to war no matter what

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"But a new report by the nonpartisan Carnegie Endowment for International Peace disputes the administration's claims. The report asserts that Iraq could not have destroyed tons of WMDs or hidden them or sent them out of the country without the international community noticing. Certainly, the large team of U.N. weapons inspectors on the ground each day would have seen something and would have sounded the alarm.

In another blow to Bush's credibility on Iraq, David Kay, leader of the survey group, along with his deputy, is said to be leaving the post soon because his work is done. His efforts came up virtually empty. If Kay were on the trail of WMDs or had found them, he would have told the world.

Referring to Kay and his work, a weapons disposal team official told the New York Times: "They picked up everything that was worth picking up." Which turns out to be next to nothing.

/snip/

Like the president, Powell has not come clean with the American people. And like the president, he seems to be cynically satisfied that many people believe - with the administration's encouragement - that Hussein played a direct role in bringing down the World Trade Center.

As long as this powerful, false notion lives, the administration will continue to mislead and control a frightened, gullible public. Meanwhile, U.S. and coalition troops and civilians, on both sides, will continue to die in a war that was initiated by George W. Bush - who was going to war no matter what.



Yup - we knew that,

well apparently not enough of us -

(sigh)

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