FalloutStories related to 11 Sept 2001. |
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17/10/2004; 9:37:01 |
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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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The more we find out about what happened at Abu Ghraib, the less it looks like a case of renegade soldiers. [Salon] . .< 11:11:43 PM  >M.P.'s Received Orders to Strip Iraqi Detainees The officer who was in charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib said intelligence officers sometimes told military police to force detainees to strip naked. [New York Times: International] . .< 11:08:00 PM >US troops 'abused Iraq reporters' Reuters news agency says three of its local staff were abused, as the first US soldier prepares for a court martial. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] . .< 9:51:35 PM >The Scandal's Growing Stain Abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq shock the world and roil the Bush Administration. The inside story of what went wrong--and who's to blame [TIME's Top World Stories] . .< 7:45:09 PM >History and Outrage in Films at Cannes "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's most disciplined and powerful movie to date, suggests that he is also, arguably, a great filmmaker. [New York Times: Arts] 'The audience at the afternoon gala screening responded with a 20-minute standing ovation that the festival's artistic director, Thierry Frémaux, said was the longest he had ever witnessed in Cannes. [snip] It is also the best film Mr. Moore has made so far, a powerful and passionate expression of outraged patriotism, leavened with humor and freighted with sorrow.' . .< 6:16:05 PM >United Press International: Army, CIA want torture truths exposed Over the past weekend and into this week, devastating new allegations have emerged putting Stephen Cambone, the first Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, firmly in the crosshairs and bringing a new wave of allegations cascading down on the head of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, when he scarcely had time to catch his breath from the previous ones. Even worse for Rumsfeld and his coterie of neo-conservative true believers who have run the Pentagon for the past 3[product] years, three major institutions in the Washington power structure have decided that after almost a full presidential term of being treated with contempt and abuse by them, it's payback time.
Those three institutions are: The United States Army, the Central Intelligence Agency and the old, relatively moderate but highly experienced Republican leadership in the United States Senate.
Powell noted that he was "comfortable at the time that I made the presentation it reflected the collective judgment, the sound judgment of the intelligence community." In other words, the CIA was scammed by Chalabi's outfit, and it never caught on. So who's been fired over this? After all, the nation supposedly went to war partly due to this intelligence. And partly because of this bad information over 700 Americans and countless Iraqis have lost their lives. Shouldn't someone be held accountable? The Nation: "Powell acknowledged that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war." [Scripting News] . .< 12:43:01 AM >Powell forces press aide to let him answer Meet the Press question Colin Powell appeared on Meet the Press this weekend, and his appearance was marred by his press secretary moving the camera and attempting to end the interview early when Russert, the interviewer, started to ask a hardball question about the fictional Nigerien yellow-cake uranium that Powell used as an excuse to go to war in Iraq.
Most noteworthy about this event was that Powell, rebuked the press-secretary on air, demanded that the camera be trained on him again, and then answered the question, describing the intelligence he'd received as "deliberately misleading."
Lisa Rein's got the video up -- highly recommended.
I've downloaded the video. Pretty extraodrinary. Powell may come out of this whole mess looking good after all. |
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