Administration keeps Iraq secrets. (Insider Report)."The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose' observed Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. In the spirit of the Bard's grudging acknowledgement, we take notice of an article in the March/April issue of The Humanist entitled, "What Bush Didn't Want You to Know About Iraq." Last fall, the Bush administration accused Iraq of filing an incomplete weapons declaration to the United Nations. "In a way, the Bush folks were telling the truth," observes Humanist contributor Michael I Michael I, Byzantine emperor Michael I (Michael Rangabe), d. c.845, Byzantine emperor (811–13), son-in-law of Nicephorus I. He supported orthodoxy against iconoclasm and recalled Theodore of Studium from exile. . Niman. "The UN report as distributed was missing key pieces of information about Iraq's weapons programs. But that's because the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. removed over 8,000 pages of information from the 11,800 page document before passing it on. The missing pages implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. twenty-four U.S.-based corporations and the successive Ronald Reagan and George Bush [the elder] administrations in connection with the illegal supplying of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government with myriad weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or and the training to use them." "In addition to biological and chemical weapons components such as anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis , various U.S. government agencies -- including the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and Department of Agriculture, as well as the Livermore, Los Alamos Los Alamos (lôs ăl`əmōs', lŏs), uninc. town (1990 pop. 11,455), seat of Los Alamos co., N central N.Mex. It is on a long mesa extending from the Jemez Mts. The U.S. , and Sandia nuclear weapons labs -- also supplied Hussein's government with material for its nuclear weapons program and training in how to use that material," continues Niman. "Then, of course, Dick Cheney's Halliburton outfit received the contract to rebuild Hussein's oilfields after the 1991 Gulf War." The American branch of the globalist Establishment had plenty of international company. Niman points out that the other members of the UN Security Council's "big five" -- Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , Russia, China, and France -- "shared the Bush administration's desire to suppress the report, since they were also implicated for their roles in arming Iraq. Russia and China, in fact, are still arming Iraq...." Very little of this is new to readers of THE NEW AMERICAN, which exposed the role of U.S. and other western internationalists in building the Iraqi war machine a decade ago. But the Bush administration's cynicism is breathtaking: It censored the Iraqi report to protect the power elite, and then cited that censored report to help justify another war on Iraq. |
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