Office of Special Plans
Published on Sunday, October 9, 2005 by The Independent
Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
by Norman Dombey
President Bush's principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and it is Iraq.
Politicians tell us they acted in good faith on the road to war, and maybe they did, but that leaves a prickly question: who was so keen to prove that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat that they forged documents purporting to show that he was trying to buy 500 tons of uranium from Niger to develop nuclear weapons? The forgery was revealed to the Security Council by ElBaradei. That was not an intelligence error. It was a straightforward lie, an invention intended to mislead public opinion and help start a war.
some more of fighting them over there so we don't have FUCKING MUSHROOM CLOUDS OVER CLEVELAND.
nobody is around powerful enough to tell the evil fuckers no you can't . Like spoiled fucking dangerous children, there are no adults around to tell them no. They believe what they are doing is right and the other few billion of us are just plain stupid and wrong.
Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
by Norman Dombey
President Bush's principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and it is Iraq.
Politicians tell us they acted in good faith on the road to war, and maybe they did, but that leaves a prickly question: who was so keen to prove that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat that they forged documents purporting to show that he was trying to buy 500 tons of uranium from Niger to develop nuclear weapons? The forgery was revealed to the Security Council by ElBaradei. That was not an intelligence error. It was a straightforward lie, an invention intended to mislead public opinion and help start a war.
some more of fighting them over there so we don't have FUCKING MUSHROOM CLOUDS OVER CLEVELAND.
nobody is around powerful enough to tell the evil fuckers no you can't . Like spoiled fucking dangerous children, there are no adults around to tell them no. They believe what they are doing is right and the other few billion of us are just plain stupid and wrong.
