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KurtNYC

(14,549 posts)
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 10:40 AM Mar 2013

We 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:

I looked at the four [sources] that [the CIA] gave me for [the mobile bio-labs], and they stood behind them, ... Now it appears not to be the case that it was that solid. At the time I was preparing the presentation, it was presented to me as being solid. -4/3/2004


...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 !
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We found those Weapons of Mass Destruction btw. (Original Post) KurtNYC Mar 2013 OP
Wow! Dyedinthewoolliberal Mar 2013 #1
Galloway rocks. Kick. nt. polly7 Mar 2013 #2
We've been told to look ahead and forget about war crimes and treason just1voice Mar 2013 #3
Hooray for Galloway! 2naSalit Mar 2013 #4
yes, and I like the way Levin covers his own mouth to hide KurtNYC Mar 2013 #10
I noticed that too 2naSalit Mar 2013 #13
Outstanding. CrispyQ Mar 2013 #5
Hear, hear!!! Pullo Mar 2013 #6
Thank you George Galloway for telling the truth. judesedit Mar 2013 #7
And let's not forget after all the beating of the war drums ... Ganja Ninja Mar 2013 #8
Wow...can we import this guy to the US... zeemike Mar 2013 #9
Here is an encore KurtNYC Mar 2013 #11
"where the people are 32 stone and there is no sidewalks" zeemike Mar 2013 #12
Weapons of Mass Distraction formercia Mar 2013 #14
"They hijacked our grief and flew it into Iraq." KurtNYC Mar 2013 #15
All fucking lies madokie Mar 2013 #16
 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
3. We've been told to look ahead and forget about war crimes and treason
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 11:35 AM
Mar 2013

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)
4. Hooray for Galloway!
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 01:06 PM
Mar 2013

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)
10. yes, and I like the way Levin covers his own mouth to hide
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:46 PM
Mar 2013

any reaction he is having to the exchange.

2naSalit

(86,393 posts)
13. I noticed that too
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 08:29 PM
Mar 2013

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.

Pullo

(594 posts)
6. Hear, hear!!!
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 01:28 PM
Mar 2013

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

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
8. And let's not forget after all the beating of the war drums ...
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 01:43 PM
Mar 2013

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)
9. Wow...can we import this guy to the US...
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 02:02 PM
Mar 2013

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.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
12. "where the people are 32 stone and there is no sidewalks"
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 05:37 PM
Mar 2013

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.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
16. All fucking lies
Tue Mar 19, 2013, 07:38 AM
Mar 2013

George Galloway told them but they wouldn't listen. 'They' being our congress at the time

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