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Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same
in any country."<br>
- - Hermann Goering, (Nazi leader - quoted 4/18/46 in Gustave Gilbert's book,
Nuremberg Diary)
RHINO HERE:
In my Monday morning comments about Sunday night's Oscars, I failed to mention
the heartfelt message of peace that Spanish director Pedro Almodovar delivered
while accepting an Oscar for best original screenplay for his film, "Talk
To Her". Another poignant plea for peace was offered by
Mexican
heart throb actor Gael Garcia Bernal who played Julio in "Y Tu Mama Tambien".
I'm sure they made Spanish speaking people around the globe proud of their
courage & truthfulness.
So Michael Moore's under fire for what his critics call, inappropriate insults
of shrub. In my opinion the heart of what he said was that, "he's
waging a war for fictitious reasons." So apparently many
Americans
don't think shrub & company have lied to justify their war. Rhino thinks
they must be watching too much TV, in particular, the tri letter "news" operations
like CNN, FOX, NBC, ETC.
So today I offer a variety of reports written by diverse sources, left, right & international,
that indeed, this war that has put thousands of young Americans in harms way
is based on lies.
THE BOTTOM
LINE is from Aftenpoften, News From Norway. It's a brief article
reporting
the opinions of US-based Norwegian weapons inspector Jørn SiljeholmJoern
Siljeholm who accuses the USA & Secretary of State Colin Powell with providing
the UN Security Council with misleading info about Iraq's possession of weapons
of mass destruction.
Mr. Siljeholm, mind you is no lightweight. He's a Ph.D. in environmental
chemistry risk analysis & toxicology at MIT's Center for International Studies
with a resume way longer than shrub's state of the union cheat notes.
Rhino thanks Democrats.com for the following blurbs & link research:
ForgeryGate: What Did Bush Know, and When Did He Know It?
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is outraged that Bush lied to the American people
and
the world about Iraq's alleged efforts to purchase uranium from Niger. Waxman
compiled all of the facts and sent a stinging letter to Bush: "I urge you
to provide to me and to the relevant committees of Congress a full accounting
of what you knew about the reliability of the evidence linking Iraq to uranium
in Africa, when you knew this, and why you and senior officials in the Administration
presented the evidence to the U.N. Security Council, the Congress, and the American
people without disclosing the doubts of the CIA." As Tom Engelhardt points
out, this letter has received NO media coverage. We demand a Special Prosecutor
for ForgeryGate!
http://www.house.gov/waxman/text/admin_iraq_march_17_let.htm
Another Bush-Hitler Parallel: Forging Evidence to Justify Conquest
Rightwinger Paul Craig Roberts writes, " Will Bush be impeached? Will he
be called a war criminal? These are not hyperbolic questions. Mr. Bush has permitted
a small cadre of neoconservatives to isolate him from world opinion, putting
him at odds with the UN and America's allies... The administration's use of forged
evidence opens Mr. Bush to unflattering comparisons that his enemies will not
hesitate to make. They will point out that it was Adolf Hitler's strategy to
fabricate evidence in order to justify his invasion of a helpless country. He
used S.S. troops dressed in Polish uniforms to fake an attack on the German radio
station at Gleiwitz on Aug. 31, 1939. Following the faked attack, Hitler announced:
'This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory.'
As German troops poured into Poland, Hitler declared: 'The Polish state has refused
the peaceful settlement of relations which I desired, and has appealed to arms.'"
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030320-75800736.htm
UN Weapons Inspectors Are Furious over Bushit and Lies
Mercury News reports, "As UN nuclear inspectors flee Iraq, some of them
are angry at the Bush administration for cutting short their work, bad-mouthing
their efforts and making false claims about evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
Some inspectors are 'scandalized' at the way Bush and Colin Powell, among others,
have 'politicized' the inspection process. None of the nuclear-related intelligence
trumpeted by the administration has held up to scrutiny, inspectors say. From
suspect aluminum tubes to aerial photographs to documents -- revealed to be forgeries
-- that claimed to link Iraq to uranium from Niger, inspectors say they chased
U.S. leads that went nowhere and wasted valuable time in their efforts to determine
the extent of Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons banned after the 1991 Persian
Gulf War... Inspectors [arrived] as hawks and leave as doves, after finding Iraq
'a ruined country, not a threat to anyone.' It is a view radically different
than the administration's."
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5418901.htm
Bush's 20 Lies for War
Patrick Martin writes, "Monday night's 15-minute speech by President Bush,
setting a 48-hour deadline for war against Iraq, went beyond the usual distortions,
half-truths, and appeals to fear and backwardness to include a remarkable number
of barefaced, easily refuted lies. The enormous scale of the lying suggests two
political conclusions: the Bush administration is going to war against Iraq with
utter contempt for democracy and public opinion, and its war propaganda counts
heavily on the support of the American media, which not only fails to challenge
the lies, but repeats and reinforces them endlessly. Without attempting to be
exhaustive, it is worthwhile listing some of the most important lies and contrasting
Bush's assertions with the public record. All of the false statements listed
below are directly quoted from the verbatim transcript of Bush's remarks published
on the Internet."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/bush-m20.shtml
8:08:21 AM 
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THE BOTTOM LINE
USA Lied About Iraq's Weapons
Aftenpoften, News From Norway, 3/25/03
A US-based Norwegian weapons inspector accuses the USA and Secretary of State Colin Powell with providing the United Nations Security Council with incorrect and misleading information about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), newspaper Dagbladet reports.
Jørn SiljeholmJoern Siljeholm, Ph.D. in environmental chemistry, risk analysis and toxicology, said that the USA's basis for going to war is thin indeed, and called it a slap in the face to the United Nations weapons inspectors. Siljeholm told Dagbladet that Colin Powell's report to the Security Council on how Iraq camouflaged their WMD program was full of holes.
"Much of what he said was wrong. It did not match up at all with our information. The entire speech was misleading," Siljeholm said. Asked if the Americans lied, Siljeholm said: "Lie is a strong word - but yes, the information Powell presented about Iraq's nuclear program was simply incorrect," Siljeholm said.
"We received much incomplete and poor intelligence information from the Americans, and our cooperation developed accordingly. Much of what has been claimed about WMDs has proven to be sheer nonsense. From what I have seen they are going to war on very little," Siljeholm told Dagbladet. After 100 days in Iraq, Siljeholm, now a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, is on holiday in Florida with his family.
"I strongly doubt that the American will find anything at all. In any case I doubt that they will find WMDs that constitute a military threat," Siljeholm said. Siljeholm said that his thoughts are now with the Iraqi people he met, and who cooperated with the inspectors.
"It is a weary country with many weary people. The people want peace," Siljeholm said.
THIS STORY IS POSTED ON THE WEB AT:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/world/article.jhtml?articleID=511811
MR. SILJEHOLM'S BIO IS POSTED ON THE M.I.T. WEB SITE AT: http://web.mit.edu/cis/Bios/Siljeholm.html
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