"Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong"

[elehhhhna]

Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong
by Harry Browne

You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons – past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq's weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had – where they came from and what was done with them – as well as what had happened to Iraq's nuclear weapons program.

Although the report was prepared for the United Nations, U.S. officials intercepted the report, edited out 8,000 pages (over two thirds) of it, and delivered its Reader's Digest version of the report to the UN.

A German reporter managed to obtain a copy of the original report from Iraq, and then compared it with the truncated copy the U.S. gave to the UN. He found that the missing parts covered the Iraqis' acquisition of chemical and biological weapons from the U.S., the delivery of non-fissionable materials for a nuclear bomb by the U.S. to the Iraqis, and the training of Iraqi nuclear scientists at U.S. nuclear facilities in Los Alamos, Sandia, and Berkeley.

The basic points made in the report were:

Iraq once had chemical and biological weapons.

Some of those weapons were destroyed at the end of the Gulf War; the rest were destroyed under the supervision of the UN weapons inspectors.

Iraq once had a program to develop nuclear weapons.

Some of the nuclear weapons facilities were destroyed at the end of the Gulf War; the rest were destroyed under the supervision of the UN weapons inspectors.

More: http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne24.html

[LynnTheDem]

1. Hussein was telling the truth; bush was lying.

OBVIOUSLY bush was LYING, because *I* knew Iraq had little to no "wmd". If *I* knew that, then bush MUST HAVE known.

That or he's the stupidest MFer and biggest FOOL on the planet.

Either way.

[Warpy]

2. Third possibility

He lied, he knew he was lying, and he didn't give a shit because he wanted his war and he wanted to get richer raping Iraq and the US taxpayer at the same time.

Make no mistake, Bush is dumb. However, he's not that dumb. He's ignorant, arrogant and ruthless and he thinks human beings are just another commodity to be used and then discarded.

This is what we're up against. Until more Bushbots in this country start to wake up to the horror that they've invested their belief in, there's not much we can do about it.

[On the Road]

3. This is the Killer:

"A German reporter managed to obtain a copy of the original report from Iraq, and then compared it with the truncated copy the U.S. gave to the UN. He found that the missing parts covered the Iraqis' acquisition of chemical and biological weapons from the U.S., the delivery of non-fissionable materials for a nuclear bomb by the U.S. to the Iraqis, and the training of Iraqi nuclear scientists at U.S. nuclear facilities in Los Alamos, Sandia, and Berkeley."

That is unbelievable. It goes way beyond the CDC document. No wonder the Bush administration censored that report. I can't believe this hasn't gotten more play. You would think that it would at least be kicking around on DU.

[hector459]

5. I agree with you on this. Why hasn't this gotten more attention?

We don't read the fine print, or the administration, redacts the important damning information. I would like for someone like Conason of some other really great journalists to put this out there. May Hersh.

[LynnTheDem]

8. It was out there; but that was during The Fog of War.

No one much cared.

Project Censored 2004 - Story #3
... Security Council and current target of US military occupation ... other way while the
report was removed, edited, and ... were implicated in the missing pages as well ...

www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/3.html

America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier - Sunday Herald
... than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on ... This will be crucial if
the US and the UK go ... this weekend investigating 10 sites in Iraq, including an ...

www.sundayherald.com/30195

America Tore Out 8000 Pages of Iraq Dossier

... 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's 11,800-page dossier on ... question the allegations made
by US Secretary of ... Also See: Top-secret Iraq Report Reveals US Corporations ...

www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1222-02.htm

The Case of the Missing Information about Iraq's Weapons

... two copies of its full 12,000-page report, one to ... The US then made copies of the
report only ... their copies—with all references to foreign companies removed. ...

www.baltimorechronicle.com/media_ommisions_jan03.shtml

Saddam and Corporate

... s because the United States removed over 8,000 ... the warning about Iraq ’s US supported
weapons ... in hot pursuit, Bush simply ordered 8,000 incriminating pages ...

mediastudy.com/articles/av1-9-03.html

What Bush didn't want you know about Iraq - Pres George ...

... But that's because the United States removed over 8,000 pages of information from ...
The missing pages implicated twenty-four US-based corporations and the ...

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ mi_m1374/is_2_63/ai_98469794

[TWiley]

4. Yep, Saddam promised that it would be proven that bush

was a fucking liar. He was right.

How about all the shit he gave the UN? "Disagree with us, and you will become irrelevent"

Or our former allies? He attacked them mercilessly because they did not buy his bullshit.

How many reporters lost their jobs?

And, "Christians" put him back in the whitehouse?

[hector459]

6. If Saddam lays out that 12,000 page report in court, he might win his

freedom. The US is guilty of at least hiding or destroying evidence without even mentioning their unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, war crimes, torturing prisoners of war (since Bush declared this a war), killing and maiming thousands of civilians. I bet Johnny Cochran (sp) could get him off.

[hector459]

7. Does Boxer have this info to grill Condi with?

I always wanted to know what was in those 8,000 pages we refused to let the public see.

[lawladyprof]

9. And virtually of it under Republican presidents

Of course it would have to be since up to 1992 (no stuff to Iraq after that) they held the White House (except for Carter's four years) since Johnson.

[elehhhhna]

10. NO WAY! What a coincidence.