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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe found those Weapons of Mass Destruction btw.
Those damned WMDs! They killed 4,486 US troops (not counting contractors) and between 110,000 and 600,000 Iraqis. Created 400,000 orphans. Cost the US taxpayer, with interest, about $6 trillion.
Colin Powell stood at the UN on February 6, 2003 and waved around a fake vial of anthrax. His job was to muster international support for an invasion of Iraq using Powerpoint slides, props and conjecture. He used information from a source who was code-named "Curveball" but he never got the UN to believe in the case.
In the face of this rejection, they demanded the removal of Kofi Annan, demonized Chirac, ignored, crushed and infiltrated anti-war protests in the US, and set out to destroy all who opposed their unjustifiable and illegal war on Iraq. On March 20th 2003 Bush began the bombing and invasion with the help of Tony Blair and a few others.
Later Powell made one of the most accurate assessments of what transpired:
...but with all of the death, destruction and waste that followed, truly there was a weapon of mass destruction: LIES!
10 years gone by (as of Wednesday 3/20) it is absolutely clear that the real weapons of mass destruction in this war were the lies told to us and the world by our government.
I have yet to see it expressed more succinctly than George Galloway does in the first 2 minutes of this clip of his testimony to our beloved Congress:
GOD DAMNED LIES !
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,546 posts)Just fucking wow................
polly7
(20,582 posts)just1voice
(1,362 posts)Odd how the worst crimes ever committed by American politicians can't just be swept away, odd to the propagandists anyway.
Rec'd.
2naSalit
(86,393 posts)Coburn seems to not notice that that 8ft wide whitewash brush he once had to wield is now being shaved down to .000 pinstripe brush. He keeps trying to imply that Galloway was somehow trying to cover his own misdeeds but Coburn is being shown, by Galloway, that his info was fabricated for this purpose. I love the way Galloway looks Coburn right in the eye with absolute disdain and that "Go ahead and spew, fucker, you can't cover your shit with your TP fabrications about me..." look on his face.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)any reaction he is having to the exchange.
2naSalit
(86,393 posts)I was just glad to see someone challenge Corbin's hubris and unwillingness to accept anything Galloway said. But I do love how he said it and Levin's attempt to stay stoic looking.
CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)Too bad it will never be shown on a "real" news channel.
Pullo
(594 posts)That was an awesome take down of Norm Coleman. Sadly, we didn't have nearly enough Mr. Galloway types on this side of the pond when it could have made a difference
judesedit
(4,437 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)and the talk of mobile Bio-weapons labs, that shortly after the 9/11 attack, weaponized Anthrax from US Army labs was being circulated in the US Postal System. A crime that to this day no one has ever been charged with.
How can any objective person given all that we currently know not have the strong suspicion that this was a false flag attack?
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Even if we have to kidnap him...it would be wonderful
He schooled Norm...and you noticed how Norm just ignored it all, because he knew the media would not report this.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)for Anthony in Texas ...
zeemike
(18,998 posts)God I love that guy...he does not put up with their shit....is well informed and calls them on it.
Thanks for posting that.
formercia
(18,479 posts)is what we were hit with.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)George Galloway told them but they wouldn't listen. 'They' being our congress at the time