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The Rest of Your Words, Mr. Bush, Are Also A Problem
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BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
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Perri Green
POTUS SOTU:
President Bush says he's "moved on" and that the "case is closed" with regards to those "sixteen words" in his SOTU.
Fine. What about these 71 from the same speech?
"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas."
To date, not a single UAV has been found, or drop of CBWs, or any munitions capable of delivering said weapons.
Is the CIA responsible for those words as well?
What about these 26, also from the same speech?
"Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaida."
To date, not a shred of evidence connecting Hussein with Al Qaida or any other known terrorist organizations (besides certain Palestinian groups who represent no direct threat to the US) have been revealed.
And then there are these 20:
"Our intelligence sources tell us that he (Saddam) has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."
The IAEA as well as dozens of leading scientists declared said tubes unsuitable for nuclear weapons production -- months before the war.
The CIA has assumed tepid responsibility for not insisting Bush remove the sixteen words about British evidence of Hussein's alleged attempts to purchase uranium from Africa. (Since when does the US go to war on the basis of British intel anyway?)
Fine.
Bush, however, must take responsibility for the rest his words, all 117 of which were lies. Lies that have resulted in the deaths of over two hundred American GIs, the wounding of at least 1,046, and the senseless killing of more than six thousand innocent Iraqi civilians. If this doesn't qualify as impeachable (and even indictable) high crimes and misdemeanors, then nothing does.
Perri Green
Los Angeles, CA
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
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