too funny - re: WMD from WorldTribune

[dean4america]

"U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.

Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.

snip..

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebaon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time."

snip.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html


I love the line "the significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time." Do people actually think that this fictional bullshit will matter to anyone???? I mean, to believe this story at all means we have to accept that the CIA is completely incompetent to realize that trucks moving in a convoy from a country we are going to invade is not noteworthy.

Can I go live in that alternate reality where things make sense?

[Walt Starr]

1. If they moved to Lebanon in January

Israel should be a smoking mouldering mass of crap right now.

OOPS! I guess them evil-doers in Lebanon must not have the smarts to use them thar WMDs!

[ewagner]

2. BULL!

We bombed anything that moved even long before the invasion started. If there had been a convoy of that size it would have been reduced to smoking rubble in minutes.

Is this the preamble to Kay's Report?

Is this the preamble to a bombing/invasion of Lebanon?

[BigBigBigBear]

3. Excellent

A line of trucks carrying 12-year old degraded anthrax, degraded botulism cultures, nuclear tubes, chemical disbusement drones and mobile labs (already ON trucks, allegedly, but whatever....)

Sounds like an average day on the Jersey turnpike....

Seriously - they must think we're stupid or somethin'.....

[charlie]

4. Those are the idiots

that floated the "Bin Laden has 20 confirmed nukes" story a couple of years ago:

http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may01/dougherty.htm

[dutchdemocrat]

5. Moonie alert....

The World Tribune is quoting their sister paper... this is pure propoganda. Simple. And controlled by a guy who married 200,000 people in Korea not long ago and thinks he is the new Jesus.

Robert Morton, the editor of The Washington Times National Weekly Edition and president of East West Services, Inc., which publishes WorldTribune.com, the weekly intelligence digest Geostrategy-Direct.com and WorldTechTribune.com, says he believes U.S. intelligence agencies are too bureaucratic and top-heavy.

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The GOP's man on the Moon
Unification Church leader and self-proclaimed Messiah builds legacy with support from the Bush administration


For more than two decades he has been a powerful and influential political figure, despite being more than a bit out of step with mainstream America. Now, perhaps thinking of his own mortality, he has become more visible, staging and sponsoring numerous events and conferences. A revivified Rev. Sun Myung Moon is planting the seeds of his political legacy -- and he's getting help from his friends in the Bush Administration.
On December 19, 2002, while many Americans were caught up in Trent Lott's troubles or trying to figure out what to get their mother-in-law for Christmas, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced the appointment of three managers to oversee AmeriCorps.

David Caprara was appointed director of AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). Caprara comes to government service having served as president of the American Family Coalition, an organization many observers say is a "front" organization for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.


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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14455

[dutchdemocrat]

6. Darker side of the Moon... And not a Pink Floyd Song....

Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Truth, Legend & Lies
By Robert Parry

For a decade and a half, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times has pushed deeper and deeper into Washington's political mainstream. Though viewed initially as a quirky right-wing propaganda sheet, the newspaper now gets the respect that is afforded few other daily American newspapers. Given its strategic spot in Washington, many of its stories are picked up nationally; its columnists are regulars on TV talk shows; and C-SPAN's Brian Lamb often hoists the front page before a national cable audience.

More broadly, the Times' day-in-day-out treatment of issues shapes the parameters of journalistic attitudes in the nation's capital. Yet, since its founding in 1982, the paper has held itself above traditional journalistic principles of balance and objectivity.

During the 1980s, the Times gushed with favorable stories about Ronald Reagan and his White House while pouring abuse on presidential critics. Moon's paper was an important Republican weapon in congressional battles and electoral campaigns, such as when it spread false rumors about Michael Dukakis's mental health in 1988.

President Reagan and his successor, George Bush, recognized the Times' contributions. Reagan hailed it as his "favorite" newspaper, and in 1991, when Wesley Pruden was elevated to editor-in-chief, Bush invited him to a private White House lunch "just to tell you how valuable the Times has become in Washington, where we read it every day."

After President Clinton's inauguration, the newspaper quickly flipped in its attitude toward the White House -- from watch dog to attack dog. As Allan Freedman reported in the Columbia Journalism Review, the paper hammered at Clinton's "scandal-and-screw-up" with scoops on Whitewater and on the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster. "The competition followed these stories, but the time and energy the Times devoted to them helped drive the news," Freedman wrote in March 1995.


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That failure forced God to send a second Messiah, who turned out to be Moon himself. Moon saw his task as starting the purification of mankind and establishing God's Kingdom on Earth. Moon and his followers would rule a worldwide theocracy. "We cannot separate the political field from the religious," Moon declared.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html