In the Garden of Armageddon [View All]

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http://motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/09/armageddon.html

If you haven't yet read this article in Mother Jones magazine, please do so. This is as clear an indictment of the bush administration as I have seen. The information lays bare the truth that WMD had absolutely nothing to do with this invasion, occupation and theft.

It talks about how the US did nothing to prevent the proliferation of nuclear knowledge and technology.

One of my favorite littlew tid-bits...
Harrington and Phillips proposed a $20 million plan to reach out to scientists in Baghdad. Their plan didn't go over well with the Pentagon, which at that point controlled the interim government of Iraq; Phillips remembers being told that as a condition for going, they had to agree not to make a formal request for the $20 million.

Once they got to Baghdad, Harrington was aghast at the scale of the looting. Her $20 million would be a mere drop in the bucket. "You can't just put somebody in a lab," she notes. "Not when they don't have a microscope."

In the end, even Harrington's drop in the bucket evaporated -- never mind that the State Department had made an official announcement allocating the $20 million -- and Harrington and Phillips had to make do with $2 million scraped together from emergency funds. Albright says responsibility for the reversal lies with John Bolton, then the State Department's undersecretary for arms control and international security. "All of this was going to land on Bolton's desk," he notes. "And he was in the camp that thinks all these scientists are criminals


This is a long read and Mother Jones does their usual outstanding job at investigative reporting. It is absolutely essential to understanding the tragedy that is TO COME.