FalloutStories related to 11 Sept 2001. |
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17/10/2004; 9:11:05 |
| Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences: |
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'This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption -- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future -- is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of world-wide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our -- or some other nation's -- hit list.' -U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, Feb. 12, 2003 |
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'It was bad enough for the U.S. to have endured the intelligence failures that led to Sept. 11; it's another thing to know that 18 months, billions of dollars and untold numbers of bombs later that Osama bin Laden and most of his top advisers remain on the loose. This failure ought to be thrown daily in Mr. Bush's face, but he has diverted attention to Iraq, where the United States is about to make a mistake of historic proportions.' -Jeffrey Simpson in The Globe and Mail, 18 Feb 2003 |
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Former MOD scientist says intelligence officials overruled on Iraq dossier. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Dr Jones laid out his claims in the Independent newspaper, which said he suggested that not a single defence intelligence expert backed Tony Blair's most contentious claims on WMD, although there is no unequivocal proof of this.' . .< 12:45:19 AM  >PowelI doubts over invasion 'Absence of stockpile changes the answer'. [Guardian Unlimited] The whole charade is tumbling down. Get these clowns out of office. . .< 12:41:56 AM >Swift and secret, Blair's inquiry Politicians excluded from scrutiny over decision to go to war in Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Tony Blair risked a further loss of trust on Iraq yesterday when he ordered a wide ranging inquiry into intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but debarred the inquiry from examining the political and diplomatic decision to wage war, and the legal basis for doing so.' . .< 12:39:45 AM >How did we get it so wrong? The spies got it wrong, admits former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack, but the politicians also moulded the evidence to fit the case for war. [Guardian Unlimited] 'As Seymour Hersh, among others, has reported, Bush administration officials also took some actions that arguably crossed the line between rigorous oversight of the intelligence community and an attempt to manipulate intelligence. They set up their own shop in the Pentagon, called the Office of Special Plans, to sift through the information themselves. To a great extent OSP personnel "cherry-picked" the intelligence they passed on, selecting reports that supported the administration's pre-existing position and ignoring all the rest.
Most problematic of all, the OSP often chose to believe reports that trained intelligence officers considered unreliable or downright false.' An extremely thorough article written by an insider. As we have said all along, the Bush hawks were in a rush to war, they were wrong, we were right. |
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