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| The first casualty of War Is TRUTH
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Bush lies...People die
Apparently,
intelligence is not a strength of the bush white house. Yet the foundation of his foreign plicy -preemptive strikes as exemplified
in the Iraqi war- Depends on precise intelligence. Below I will compare the prewar claims of bush and the prewar estimates
of US inteligence with the facts uncovered by the massive David Kay- Led US inspection team. Kay's team spent 300 million
dollars scouring Iraq for more than six months looking for weapons of mass destruction. The comparison shows that the CIA
vastly overestimated Iraq's WMD capabilitys and that president bush in turn grossly exaggerated or even ignored the CIA's
views in order to justify his coming attack on Iraq.
Linking Iraq to the Sept. 11 Attacks and Al Qaeda:
BUSH:
"Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high level contacts that go back a decade." (White house press statement 10/7/02) He also alleged
that one of the ringleaders of Sept.11 met with Iraqi intelligence before the attacks.
INTELLIGENCE: Before the war,
senior intelligence officials described the alligations linking Saddam Hussien to Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks as "thin
reeds" and found no evidence of the supposed meeting between the sept. 11 hijacker and Iraqi officials. (washington post 9/11/02)
FACT:
Cheif U.S. inspector David Kay found "no real connection" between Iraq and Al Qaeda. (David Kay, Senate Hearing Testimony
1/28/04) Bush was finally forced to admit: "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussien was involved in Sept. 11" attacks. (CBS/AP
9/18/03)
Nuclear Weapons:
BUSH: Saddam hussein" could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year" ( White house
press statement 10/7/02)
INTELLIGENCE:The prewar national intelligence estimate concluded it was highly unlikely that
Iraq could build a nuclear bomb befrore 2007 and probably not until 2009.( George Tenet, CIA director, georgetown address
2/5/04)
FACT: Kay's team found no makings of nuclear weapons and said it would take numerous years for Iraq to uild
that capacity. (Kay testimony)
BUSH: "saddam has recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa" ( state
of the union address, January 2003)
INTELLIGENCE: Prior to bush's claim, the CIA sent two memos to the white house
strongly doubting the claim.(washington post 7/22/03)
FACT: Joseph Wilson, who was sent to africa by the CIA to investigate
the Uranium claim in early 2002, found that the information was based on forged documents and was utterly false.
BUSH:
"Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production"(state of the union,
2003)
INTELLIGENCE: The department of energy, backed by the State departments intelligence branch, todl the white house
three months prior to bush's speech that the tubes were not suitable for uranium enrichment. (Washington post 10/26/03)
FACT:
Kay's team found no evidence that the tubes were appropriate for nuclear reconstriction or that the effort had even begun
(Kay testimony)
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS:
BUSH: Iraq has anthrax and a "massive stockpile of biological
weapons...capable of killing millions" (white house press statement 10/7/02)
INTELLIGENCE: The prewar National Intelligence
Estimate stated that raq had biological weapons and the elements of an active program that was "Larger and more advanced than
before the gulf war" (tenet address)
FACT: David Kay found no chemical or biological weapons in Iraq and said there
is no evidence that the Iraqis had produced any since 1991. (Kay testimony).
I've been walking through your streets,
Where
all you money's earning,
Where all your biulding's crying,
And clueless neckties working,
Revolving fake lawn houses,
Housing
all your fears,
Desensitized by TV,
overbearing advertising,
God of consumerism,
And all your crooked pictures,
Looking good, mirrorism,
Filtering information,
For the public eye,
Designed for
profiteering,
Your neighboor, what a guy.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the
god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
Modern globalization,
Coupled with condemnations,
Unnecessary
death,
Matador corporations,
Puppeting your frustrations,
With the blinded flag,
Manufacturing consent
Is the
name of the game,
The bottom line is money,
Nobody gives a fuck.
4000 hungry children die per hour,
from
starvation,
while billions spent on bombs,
create death showers.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop
the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM
BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM
Why,
why, why, why must we kill, kill, kill, kill, our own, own, own, own
kind...
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time
you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM
BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM
Every
time you drop the bomb.
-System of a down"boom"
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