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This
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The
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Sarajevo Hands 2003
Bernie Dwyer
An
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Cui
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Noam Chomsky
Empire of the Men of Best Quality
Bruce Jackson
Midge Decter and the Taxi Driver
Brian Cloughley
"Mow the Whole Place Down"
John Stanton
The Pentagon's Love Affair with Land Mines
William S. Lind
Bush's Bizarre Korean Gambit
Ben Tripp
The Brown Paste on Bush's Shoes
Christopher Brauchli
Divine Hatred
Dave Zirin
An Interview with John Carlos
Agustin Velloso
Oil in Equatorial Guinea: Where Trickle Down Doesn't Trickle
Josh Frank
Howard Dean and Affirmative Action
Ron Jacobs
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Strickler / Hermach
Liar, Liar Forests on Fire
David Vest
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Dr. Susan Block
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Poets' Basement
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Wayne Madsen
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Patrick Cockburn
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October 30, 2003
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Philip Adams
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Robert Fisk
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November
7, 2003
An Inspector Calls
Kay
Report is a War Crimes Indictment
By CHRIS FLOYD
This column owes a heartfelt apology to a top
official of Bush Administration, whom we unjustly maligned some
weeks ago. No doubt infected by the corrosive wave of cynical
anti-Americanism now raging across an ungrateful world, we predicted
that the report of David Kay--who was hired by the CIA to find
Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction--would be nothing
but a sham, a whitewash: "the fix is in," we sneered.
But we were wrong. Far from being a whitewash,
Kay's report has turned out to be one of the most devastating
and unflinching exposés of war crimes in world history.
In damning detail, Kay has revealed the torturous machinations
and evil practices of a ruthless tyrant seeking to thwart the
clear will of the UN Security Council and the international community,
using false declarations and crude propaganda to mask his secret
plans to abet terrorism, wage aggressive war and threaten the
entire world with weapons of mass destruction. Those apologists
for tyranny, who for months doubted the veracity of these charges,
have now been shown to be nothing more than knaves, fools, lickspittles
and dupes.
Given the success of Kay's mission, you'd
think the Bush Administration would be trumpeting the results
of his investigation from every marble pillar and post in Washington.
Instead, the report got only the most cursory airing, then was
promptly deep-sixed into the shadowlands of "secret hearings"
and "restricted access." Strange behavior, you say?
Not when you consider that the perfidy which Kay so thoroughly
unmasked was, of course, perpetrated by the Bushists themselves.
Step by step, Kay and his investigators
dismantled--inadvertently, one presumes--the public case for
war laid out by Liar-in-Chief George W. Bush, Head Bagman Dick
"Deep Pockets" Cheney, Warlord Don Rumsfeld and that
lifelong toter of Establishment whitewash, Colin "First
My Lai and Now This" Powell. Their relentless claims of
the hell that Saddam could unleash against the Homeland "on
any given day" (as Bush himself put it)--500 tons of chemical
weapons, some already mounted in missile warheads, primed and
ready for use; "mobile labs" cooking up deadly poisons
on the run; eyewitness reports from Iraqi defectors providing
irrefutable evidence of banned weapons production; and most ominous
of all, an "active" and expanding nuclear arms program
that could soon produce "a mushroom cloud" in America's
cities--were all completely debunked by Kay's investigation,
Newsday and the Washington Post reported this week.
Instead, Kay found that the combination
of UN inspections and other international oversight efforts had
worked a wonder of disarmament: Iraq's production of chemical,
biological and nuclear weapons--which had accelerated greatly
in the late 1980s with the eager aid of Saddam ally George Bush
I--ended in 1991 and was never re-started, Kay said. What's more,
those oh-so-informative defectors--many of whom were paid millions
by the Bush Regime--"certainly fabricated much [evidence]
that they supplied, and [some] perhaps were under the direct
control" of Saddam's secret service, Kay declared.
So: There were no weapons of mass destruction.
There were no active WMD programs. There were no mobile weapons
labs. There was no nuclear program, or any efforts to obtain
the technology to start one--even after UN inspectors were withdrawn
in 1998. "On any given day," Saddam Hussein could not
have threatened the United States or neighboring countries, nor
passed any WMD material to any terrorist group anywhere in the
world. These are not the ravings of anti-war dissidents, but
the sober conclusions of David Kay's official $300 million investigation.
The entire case for war, put forth so
meticulously by the Bushists in national forums and at the UN,
was based on lies, bribes, distortions--and threadbare intelligence
cooked to order for the conspirators in the White House, who
set up a system that deliberately ignored or rejected any finding
that clashed with their unalterable plans for aggression and
conquest, as Seymour Hersh reports in the New Yorker.
Not since the Nuremberg Trials has a
criminal conspiracy to commit state terrorism been so nakedly
revealed. For it's glaringly obvious that the top guns in the
Bush Regime knew in advance there was no WMD threat in Iraq.
They would never have acted so precipitously if they really believed
Saddam could unleash anthrax missiles on Jerusalem or slaughter
tens of thousands of American troops with his "armed and
ready" biochemical weapons. (Witness their circumspection
when confronted with a real WMD threat from North Korea.)
As for Saddam's nuclear "menace," they left his nuke
plants unguarded for weeks after taking control of the country,
allowing looters and terrorists to pillage them at leisure. The
"aluminum enrichment tubes" that were the Bushists'
"smoking gun" for Saddam's "aggressive" nuclear
program were likewise abandoned to their fate by American forces,
and why not? Even before the war, experts said the tubes couldn't
be used in nuclear weapons, a fact belatedly confirmed by Kay's
investigators. Some of these "sinister" tubes have
been scavenged to make sewage pipes.
The Bushists are now in full flight from
the reality of Kay's report: hiding it, twisting it, pretending
it doesn't mean what it clearly says--but their own evidence
cries out against them. They planned and executed a war of aggression
in the full knowledge that their casus belli was false,
a pious fig leaf cloaking their primitive lust for loot and dominance.
They stand condemned--by their own man, their own words--of a
sick and bloody crime against humanity.
Chris Floyd
is a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular contributor
to CounterPunch. His CounterPunch piece on Rumsfeld's
plan to provoke terrorist attacks came in at Number 4
on Project Censored's final tally of the Most Censored stories
of 2002. He can be reached at: cfloyd72@hotmail.com
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Brian Cloughley
"Mow the Whole Place Down"
John Stanton
The Pentagon's Love Affair with Land Mines
William S. Lind
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Ben Tripp
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Christopher Brauchli
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Dave Zirin
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Josh Frank
Howard Dean and Affirmative Action
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/ Hermach
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David Vest
Jimmy T99 Nelson, a Blues Legend and the Songs that Made Him
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Adam Engel
America, What It Is
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