OpEdNews - Diary: Diplomat's Suppressed Document Reveals Lies Behind Iraq War

The British Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

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DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> IF LINK DOESN'T WORK, THEN PASTE ARTICLE LINK(S) INTO YOUR BROWSER -- OR GO DIRECTLY TO >> http://www.truthout.org Diplomat's Suppressed Document Reveals Lies Behind Iraq War http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506N.shtml The British Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. ----- Allan Uthman | McCain's Shameless Call for Escalation in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506A.shtml Allen Uthman writes: "Early indicators of the depths to which McCain will stoop to win include his freshly-appointed campaign manager, professional scumbag Terry Nelson. Nelson, Bush's national political director for his 2004 re-election campaign and an unindicted co-conspirator named in Tom Delay's money-laundering indictment, is responsible for the infamous below-the-belt white bimbo ad that helped sink Harold Ford Jr.'s senatorial campaign this year by exciting the powerful anti-miscegenation Neanderthal demographic in Tennessee. The appallingly racist ad drew so much heat that Nelson was fired by Wal-Mart, but McCain apparently has lower standards." ----- New York Times | A Gag on Free Speech http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506B.shtml "The Bush administration is trampling on the First Amendment and well-established criminal law by trying to use a subpoena to force the American Civil Liberties Union to hand over a classified document in its possession," write the editors of the New York Times. "The dispute is shrouded in secrecy, and very little has been made public about the document, but we do not need to know what's in it to know what's at stake: if the government prevails, it will have engaged in prior restraint - almost always a serious infringement on free speech - and it could start using subpoenas to block reporting on matters of vital public concern." ----- Parenti and Jrapko | The Cuban Five and US Terrorism http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506O.shtml "The Cuban Five, who have broken no US law, who possessed no weapons, and who committed no act of terror, sabotage or espionage, are languishing in prison for defending their homeland by attempting to monitor US-sponsored terrorism," write Michael Parenti and Alicia Jrapko. ----- Majority of Gitmo Detainees Freed in Other Countries http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506S.shtml ----- Eric Leser | Starbucks Against Ethiopia http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506G.shtml Ethiopia's strategy for getting more of the dollars spent on its famous regional coffees to its farmers is stymied by Starbucks. ----- Mayors: More Americans Hungry, Homeless in 2006 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506P.shtml [snip] ... and children made up almost a quarter of those in emergency shelters, said a report released on Thursday by the US Conference of Mayors. ----- Fitzgerald Mum on Cheney in Leak Case http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506K.shtml ----- Army Chief Seeks More Forces, Reserves http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506L.shtml ----- George Lakoff | Building On the Progressive Victory http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506M.shtml "As the 110th Congress prepares to take office, the post-election tug of war for the soul of the Democratic Party continues, with Democratic Leadership Council folks spinning the election as a victory for centrism and others pointing to the role of economic populism," writes George Lakoff. "The truth, I think, is both more complex and more interesting and brings progressive values to center stage." ----- Jason Leopold | Truthout's Sarah Olson Subpoenaed in Watada Case http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506J.shtml ----- VIDEO | Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306J.shtml In a case that cuts right to the heart of the First Amendment, a US Army prosecutor has indicated he intends to subpoena Truthout Executive Director Marc Ash, a Truthout reporter, and two of the nonprofit news organization's regular contributors, to authenticate news reports they produced and edited earlier this year that quoted an Army officer criticizing President Bush and the White House's rationale for the Iraq War. ----- Rice Rejects Engaging Iran, Syria on Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506C.shtml ----- Kelpie Wilson | It Takes a Village to Cool the Planet http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506R.shtml [snip] ... "The rural poor pay twice - once by suffering the effects of climate change caused by affluent countries, and again by having their land taken to offset the guilt of affluent people," says Wilson. ----- Company Building US Border Fence Snared for Hiring Illegal Immigrants http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121506U.shtml ----- Gore Urges Scientists to Speak Up http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121506EA.shtml ----- Iraq Unions Against Oil Privatization http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121506LA.shtml _________________________________ .ron corvuswire@verizon.net PROOF GEORGE BUSH IS CRAZY ! ............................................... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bn-zPaOOSQ ----- Michael Ware just returned to the USA from Baghdad - VIDEO........Ware lived & reported from Baghdad for CNN for the last three years. http://www.corvuswire.com/michaelware.htm ----- Hillary Clinton, Barak Hussein Obama, and the other so-called "Democratic leaders." It's truly sickening how Hillary Clinton, Barak Hussein Obama, John Kerry, etc., pretend to be anti-war candidates, pretend to be against the war, pretend to be for Peace, but continue to vote for additional funding for this insane war EACH TIME BUSH ASKS FOR MORE MONEY FOR HIS WAR MACHINE! And these Democratic candidates call themselves Democrats? They work overtime trying to align themselves with liberals? Give me a break! Better yet, give me a candidate who REALLY IS AN ANTI-WAR AND ANTI-CORPORATE Democratic leader! Give me Dennis Kucinich for President! Get your stompin' boots on, because it's time to kick some catatonic butt! Whose catatonic butts? Hillary Clinton, Barak Hussein Obama, and the other so-called "Democratic leaders." Why catatonic? Because these Democratic candidates must be in a deep, deep catatonic trance to IGNORE THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW! Who do they think voted the Democratic majority into Congress last month? Their pro-Israeli/corporate backers? NO! We The People voted the bums out of Congress because we want to bring the troops home now! Everybody, including our military leaders, KNOW this war is unwinable - yet Hillary Clinton, Barak Hussein Obama and the others want to "keep the troops there till the job gets done." They must not hear the Voice of The People over the few voices with big bucks for Hillary Clinton, Barak Hussein Obama and John Kerry. I tell you right now, I'm voting for Dennis Kucinich because he will be the conscious of the Democratic Party who just won't be quiet and behave - Dennis kicks where others kiss. Dennis is already telling the other Democratic candidates, Shame on you! Shame on you for calling yourself an anti-war candidate while repeatedly voting for the War on Iraq. .ron http://www.youtube.com/kucinich1 | http://www.corvuswire.com/kucinichvideos.htm ----- HOW MOSSAD GOT AMERICA TO BOMB LIBYA & FIGHT IRAQ Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy, By Way of Deceptio St Martin's Press, New York 1990. http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/ostrovsky.html{Ostrovsky's Foreword} {p. vii} REVEALING THE FACTS as I know them from my vantage point of four years spent inside the Mossad was by no means an easy task. Coming from an ardent Zionist background, I had been taught that the state of Israel was incapable of misconduct. That we were the David in the unending struggle against the ever-growing Goliath. That there was no one out there to protect us but ourselves - a feeling reinforced by the Holocaust survivors who lived among us. We, the new generation of Israelites, the resurrected nation on its own land after more than two thousand years of exile, were entrusted with the fate of the nation as a whole. The commanders of our army were called champions, not generals. Our leaders were captains at the helm of a great ship. I was elated when I was chosen and granted the privilege to join what I considered to be the elite team of the Mossad. 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