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by Greg Miller Times
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2004 - Days before Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was to present the case for war with Iraq to the United Nations State Department analysts found dozens of factual problems in drafts of his speech, according to new documents contained in the Senate report on intelligence failures released last week.
Two memos included with the Senate report listed objections that State Department experts lodged as they reviewed successive drafts of the Powell (…)

by Paul Craig Roberts
Key intelligence used to justify war with Iraq has now been shown to be unreliable, concludes Lord Butler in the British government’s report about the misinformation that caused a pointless war.
Nevertheless, says Lord Butler, there is no one to blame for the thousands of deaths, the massive destruction, and subsequent creation of a new generation of terrorists but mere error itself. "No one lied," not even Prime Minister Blair when he made the unbelievable (…)

By Thalif Deen
NEW YORK - When the 15-member United Nations Security Council legitimized the US-imposed interim government in Baghdad in June, the five-page unanimous resolution carried a provision little publicized in the media: the lifting of a 14-year arms embargo on Iraq.
The Security Council’s decision to end military sanctions on Iraq has triggered a rush by the world’s weapons dealers to make a grab for a potentially multimillion-dollar new arms market in the already over-armed (…)

From: Jude Wanniski
As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Roberts, you have done the country a great service by issuing the committee’s report on the errors made by the Intelligence Community [IC] that led to the President’s decision to war against Iraq. You have also been good enough to acknowledge that if what is now known to be true - that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and no connection with 9-11 - there would not have been the votes in the Senate in (…)

Naomi Klein should be given a Nobel Prize for peace! She is attempting to free our minds! Freedom is her banner!

President Bush’s daughter wishes to enlist in the Army so she can go to Iraq and help fight the war on terror and make her daddy proud!

John Kerry and his controlling wife will lose to Bush because they do not have relationships with the oil moguls. People do not fight wars over tomato paste!

The Saudi Royal family protects Osama bin Laden and helps bail out the Bush family. Someone needs to behead the royal family and put an end to the control of Texas oil and Saudi Oil.
Bush knows where Osama is. He is the son of his friends the Bin Ladens.

George W. Bush will be re-elected as president for another 4 years. He has to finish his work. In order to become a cowboy you have to get the herd home and he has not done that yet.

All the senator’s men, coming to a theater near you: Film `exposes’ Kerry’s ’72 loss By Elisabeth J. Beardsley Wednesday, July 14, 2004
A rich booster of President Bush [related, bio] will unveil a documentary about Democrat John F. Kerry [related, bio] days before his convention coronation - sparking cries of political shenanigans’’ over its focus on Kerry’s sole campaign defeat 32 years ago. Three days before the Democratic National Convention’s kickoff, more than 200 political and (…)