Top Iraqi Defector Says Iraq Destroyed Its Wmds, (blast from the past)

[rodeodance]

note the day--i have been reviewing a few of Democracy's Now shows and thought this was interesting --dusted off cobwebs for me anyhow.


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0320205

> Monday, March 3rd, 2003

> Top Iraqi Defector Says Iraq Destroyed Its Wmds, But Bush and Blair Continue to Cite Him to Drum Up Support for War, and the U.S. Media Buries the Story: An Interview with Former Unscom Chair Rolf Ekeus and Others
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> Today we bring you a complicated story about President Bush, Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, top-level Iraqi defector Hussein Kamel, and the US media.
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> It is a story that reveals how the Bush and Blair administrations are manipulating evidence in every way possible to drum up support for a war on Iraq. And it is a story that reveals how the US media is failing to do its job.
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> Last week, Newsweek reported that the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein's government told the CIA, British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in 1995 that Iraq destroyed its chemical and biological weapons after the Gulf War.
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> Hussein Kamel was Saddam Hussein's son-in-law. For ten years, he ran Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs..........

[gordianot]

1. They should have made more of a show.

Saddam Hussein is almost as stupid as George Bush and friends. If there were not so many lives a stake it would be funny.

[Kraklen]

2. They showed it to weapons inspectors before the war.

What were they supposed to do? Go on Oprah?

[gordianot]

4. More transparency would have helped. Why not Oprah?

The also kicked the weapons inspectors out during the Clinton administration leaving the impression they had something to hide playing into Bush's hands. Not a smart move. Hussein was a bully who met a bigger bully, both of whom deserve to be locked up

[Coexist]

3. great reminder - more ammo!