[Vision2020] 935 False Statements Made Before War

Fri Jan 25 09:08:43 PST 2008

And no thanks at all to you, Gary, for being so rude and dismissive to a man who's never done you a bit of harm.

Keely

From: jampot at roadrunner.com
To: starbliss at gmail.com; ophite at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:30:40 -0800
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 935 False Statements Made Before War

"...that the US 
public did not question this refocus of our military, when the job of catching 
Bin Laden was left undone, suggests a disturbing susceptibility to simple minded 
sound bite scare tactic propaganda coupled with a very short attention 
span."

What a blessing that we have people as intelligent 
and vigilant as you keeping a handle on these important matters from the 
confines of your basement of solitude. The next time us simple 
minded, attention deficit sheep lose sight of what should be apparent 
to all, if we were only half as bright as you, please send Brain Guy out to box 
our ears and set us all straight.

Thanks for being you,
g

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Ted Moffett 

  To: Andreas Schou 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:07 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 935 False 
  Statements Made Before War

All-

  Many people were deceived by the coordinated effort to hype Iraq's WMD 
  capability in the late 1990s up to the 2003 invasion.  And it seemed many 
  forgot that the US supported Iraq's weapons programs with aid, during the 
  Reagan administration (why Reagan is such a huge hero I can't fathom, 
  given his involvement with the US Constitution violating Iran/Contra scandal, 
  aid to Saddam, support for Central American death squad dictators, and ill 
  advised support for the Taliban in Afghanistan, the mujahideen 'freedom 
  fighters,' and other black marks).  

  Former Bush administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shook 
  hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983 when he served in the Reagan 
  administration:

  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/press.htm

  http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html

  But being ill informed or deceived about Iraq's WMD program and ties to 
  Al Qaeda is one thing.  Cheney, Bush and others in the Bush 
  administration, using the power of the executive 
  branch, deliberately deceived the US public in hyping this danger, 
  to justify an invasion and occupation of another nation by the US military, 
  killing, given a conservative estimate, over 100,000 civilians, with over a 
  million Iraqis now refuges or internally displaced (one reason the level of 
  violence is down, with neighborhoods now ethnically cleansed into 
  exclusive Sunni or Shite areas, as hundreds of thousands of Iraqis 
  have fled for their lives).  This is an impeachable 
  offence, linked to the commission of war crimes, especially with the 
  justifications and commission of torture, Abu Ghraib prison horrors, etc. 

  The media, the vaunted Fourth Estate, along with the US Congress, failed 
  utterly to expose the fabrications (yellow cake uranium from Niger), 
  distortions (Iraq with ties to Al Queda and links to 9/11), and well known 
  falsehoods (false claim Iraq had obtained centrifuge tubes for nuclear 
  material processing), in the run up to the invasion.  Even former 
  Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted he presented erroneous 
  information to the UN in his presentation before the US invasion regarding 
  Iraq WMD capability: 

  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D9143FF934A25756C0A9629C8B63

  Pakistan's nuclear weapons are more of a threat to world security, it can 
  be argued, than Saddam's WMDs ever were, given Pakistan has Islamic 
  militants operating inside its borders, with sympathizers in the Pakistan 
  military, who once supported the Taliban in Afghanistan.  Amazing that a 
  government with known ties to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, with Bin Laden 
  suspected to be in hiding near or within its borders, is a US alley receiving 
  millions in US military aid, while Saddam had no substantial ties to the 
  Bin Laden/9/11 Islamic militants. 

  There are serious questions regarding why the US shifted the focus away 
  from catching Bin Laden in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area after the post 
  9/11 invasion of Afghanistan, while pushing for the invasion of Iraq with a 
  demonization of Saddam as a threat to US national 
  security.   And that the US public did not question this 
  refocus of our military, when the job of catching Bin Laden was left undone, 
  suggests a disturbing susceptibility to simple minded sound bite scare tactic 
  propaganda coupled with a very short attention span. 

  Ted Moffett

  On 1/24/08, Andreas 
  Schou <ophite at gmail.com> 
  wrote: 
  Glenn--

(1) 
    Whose false statements did Kerry rely on in coming to the
conclusion that 
    Hussein presented a "particularly grievous threat?" 

(2) What was the 
    result of Clinton's Iraq policy, including threats of
force? Was it (a) 
    an active WMD program, or (b) an inactive WMD
program?

-- 
    ACS

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