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Sticky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 08:43 AM
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Margolis: American fib factory
THE WHITE House's Iraq fib factory went into overdrive last week, ballyhooing claims that the new "caretaker government" the UN had supposedly just installed in Baghdad was "fully sovereign" and "totally independent."

We would like to believe American president George Bush. But this latest claim comes from the same truth-deficient people who concocted Iraq's imminent threat to destroy the U.S. with nuclear and germ weapons, Saddam Hussein's vans and drones of death, Saddam's tryst with Osama bin Laden, and a slew of other preposterous whoppers that would have made the Nazis' propagandist, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, blush deep crimson.

A political charade


The latest U.S.-authored regime change in Iraq was a political charade designed to soothe uneasy American voters who are increasingly alarmed by the aimlessness, mounting casualties and $186-billion US cost -- as much as the Vietnam War at its height-- of the Iraq misadventure.

The White House dreads the oncoming national uproar when the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq hits 1,000. It desperately needs to show some light at the end of the Iraq tunnel before November's elections.

So it arm-twisted the UN's weak secretary general, Kofi Annan, into allowing his organization to be crudely misused to legitimize continuing U.S.-British occupation of Iraq by supposedly selecting candidates for the new "sovereign" regime.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/06/06/488600.html
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 09:38 AM
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1. Sounds about right. n/t
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-04 03:04 PM
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2. LIE FACTORY
is more accurate. I love Margolis and he gets points for his "diplomatic speech."
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