Sunday, May 23, 2004
More Army Cover-Ups
A year and a half ago, many people protested the imminent invasion of Iraq. These people were branded as anti-American, and even supporters of terrorism. But all they were really saying was, "War ain't pretty. There will be innocent deaths, American casualties, suffering refugees, invigorated terrorists, and a total breakdown of international support." War cheerleaders countered with, "The Iraqis will welcome us, and we will rid the world of a madman wielding weapons of mass destruction."
While the war drags on, we've been assured that the dangerous stockpiles of weapons will be uncovered. Recently, an artillery shell with possible contents of ricin was exploded in a roadside bombing. This discovery might be quietly put to bed by our military itself, due to the fact that Ricin can usually be traced to the site of its origin. Coupling this to the dating of the artillery shell to before the 1st Iraq war, it's probably safe to assume that the ricin has some ties (through supply, assistance, or at the very least tolerance) to the Reagan administration.
But more and more unbelievably inconceivable stories keep coming out of Iraq.
Our war prisons contain up to 90% mistakenly incarcerated Iraqis, where humiliation, abuse, and murder were part of the interrogation routine.
An Iraqi wedding party is decimated by our troops, and we immediately deny accusations that we made a horrible mistake. When asked if we had, in fact, attacked a wedding party, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said, "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." This was just prior to the release of wedding videotapes showing the final happy moments of the celebrators later confirmed dead from the attack.
NBC reports that the White House had at least three opportunities, long before the war, to destroy a terrorist camp in uncontrolled northern Iraq run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, believed to be responsible for 700 deaths in Iraq, who recently beheaded Nicholas Berg, and isn't finished yet. Why was he allowed to keep running his camp, where he was making ricin and cyanide? According to military officials, the administration feared destroying his terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The lone terrorist and WMD threat that Bush knew of in Iraq (which happened to be outside of Saddam's sphere of influence) was allowed to continue to terrorize, so the US would have justification to invade Iraq. But after invading, we never even got the terrorist that drove us there! He just finished beheading an American, and blowing up a car in an attempt to murder an Iraqi security official.
Maybe we were acting on a tip that he was at the wedding party we blew up. Remember, bad people have celebrations, too.
A year and a half ago, many people protested the imminent invasion of Iraq. These people were branded as anti-American, and even supporters of terrorism. But all they were really saying was, "War ain't pretty. There will be innocent deaths, American casualties, suffering refugees, invigorated terrorists, and a total breakdown of international support." War cheerleaders countered with, "The Iraqis will welcome us, and we will rid the world of a madman wielding weapons of mass destruction."
While the war drags on, we've been assured that the dangerous stockpiles of weapons will be uncovered. Recently, an artillery shell with possible contents of ricin was exploded in a roadside bombing. This discovery might be quietly put to bed by our military itself, due to the fact that Ricin can usually be traced to the site of its origin. Coupling this to the dating of the artillery shell to before the 1st Iraq war, it's probably safe to assume that the ricin has some ties (through supply, assistance, or at the very least tolerance) to the Reagan administration.
But more and more unbelievably inconceivable stories keep coming out of Iraq.
Our war prisons contain up to 90% mistakenly incarcerated Iraqis, where humiliation, abuse, and murder were part of the interrogation routine.
An Iraqi wedding party is decimated by our troops, and we immediately deny accusations that we made a horrible mistake. When asked if we had, in fact, attacked a wedding party, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said, "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." This was just prior to the release of wedding videotapes showing the final happy moments of the celebrators later confirmed dead from the attack.
NBC reports that the White House had at least three opportunities, long before the war, to destroy a terrorist camp in uncontrolled northern Iraq run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, believed to be responsible for 700 deaths in Iraq, who recently beheaded Nicholas Berg, and isn't finished yet. Why was he allowed to keep running his camp, where he was making ricin and cyanide? According to military officials, the administration feared destroying his terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The lone terrorist and WMD threat that Bush knew of in Iraq (which happened to be outside of Saddam's sphere of influence) was allowed to continue to terrorize, so the US would have justification to invade Iraq. But after invading, we never even got the terrorist that drove us there! He just finished beheading an American, and blowing up a car in an attempt to murder an Iraqi security official.
Maybe we were acting on a tip that he was at the wedding party we blew up. Remember, bad people have celebrations, too.
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