The Build-a-War Workshop

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THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF DEATHS------CRIMINAL??? FUCKIN'A

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It took far too long, but a report by the Pentagon inspector general has finally confirmed that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s do-it-yourself intelligence office cooked up a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda to help justify an unjustifiable war.

The report said the team headed by Douglas Feith, under secretary of defense for policy, developed “alternative” assessments of intelligence on Iraq that contradicted the intelligence community and drew conclusions “that were not supported by the available intelligence.” Mr. Feith certainly knew the Central Intelligence Agency would cry foul, so he hid his findings from the C.I.A. Then Vice President Dick Cheney used them as proof of cloak-and-dagger meetings that never happened, long-term conspiracies between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden that didn’t exist, and — most unforgivable — “possible Iraqi coordination” on the 9/11 attacks, which no serious intelligence analyst believed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/opinion/10sat1.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

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1. The Times runs this as if it is a surprise to them.

After their own Judy Miller and her breathless reporting
at the time. Lots of us knew at the time that it was all
BS and tried through letters and protests to let the world
know, but, now it is all such a surprise.

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2. Well maybe all their readers aren't quite as informed as du'ers.

I'm glad they are running this now and it should be the headline in every paper across the US.

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3. For every face we know, how many haven't we seen? The face

of people who rob us of our children and massacre and destory a nation - what do they look like?

We know the faces we know wear suits, ties, or uniforms with metal on them. Can we assume the faces we don't know are the same?

How do they reconcile their rewards when they look at their children?