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BUSH: IRAQ SOURCE OF DEADLY WEAPONS

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

Not too long ago–4 years to be precise–Bush claimed that Iraq had WMDs and was making nuclear weapons.

Now, Bush is hopping all over some of the recent “evidence” that Iran is the sole provider of some of the munitions found in Iraq–after capturing some arms.

But as before with Iraq, Bush and his administration have very little credibility with this latest claim–because of their lack of the WMD that was supposed to be in Iraq at the start of 2003: Saddam’s cache piles of biological and chemical weapons. Not to mention his “nuclear” weapons that was claimed by George Tenant as a ‘slam dunk’ in terms of ‘darned good intelligence’.

Sadly, Bush doesn’t care. He’s going to milk this one for all its worth–solid intelligence or not. He’s going to keep claiming that another country is the sole provider of arms to the Shiite militias–even if he doesn’t have one shred of irrefutable evidence.

The arms provided by a recent Baghdad briefing to reporters came under fire recently as being ‘too good’ to ignore, but lacking any real points of origin or sources willing to collaborate their authenticity.

So is the military heads using doctored evidence to try and sell another sheep in wolf’s clothing?

Colin Powell did that.

And look at what it left us–4 years later.

Can we afford to make the same mistake twice?

Can our stretched and broken military?

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.com

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 8:03 PM