“Bush’s WMD probe is a fraud,” says SEP presidential candidate

[IndianaGreen]

The following is a statement issued by Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Bill Van Auken in response to President Bush’s announcement Monday that he will appoint an “independent bipartisan commission” to examine supposed US intelligence failures in relation to the US administration’s claims about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

“Bush’s WMD probe is a fraud,” says SEP presidential candidate
3 February 2004

The issue is not a failure of intelligence, but rather a colossal failure of American democracy implicating every section of the political establishment, including the media and the Democratic Party politicians.

The administration and its apologists now put forward the alibi that everyone was fooled by flawed intelligence into believing that the Iraqi weapons existed and posed a clear and present danger. Yet, millions in the US and tens of millions worldwide rejected the government’s lies and marched in the streets to say so.

The Socialist Equality Party refuted the government’s claims well before the war began. Our party explained that the motive for war was not Iraqi WMD, but a longstanding drive by the US corporate elite to lay claim to the world’s second-largest oil reserves and gain strategic advantage over potential rivals by placing US military forces in the center of the Middle East.

The proposed “independent” commission is designed to produce a whitewash. Bush will pick every one of its members from a stable of political hacks and former intelligence officials who can be trusted to deliver the desired conclusions. As insurance against the minimal danger that the commission might produce any findings critical of the administration, it will not deliver its conclusions until well after the November election.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/wmd-f03.shtml

[mrdmk]

1. Logic dictates

How could materials for weapons of mass destruction get into a country that could not feed itself.

Start a second war (useless to boot) when business in the first war is far from completed.

Rash of corporate scandals come to light when given a free for all.

Three tax breaks to the entities that do not need them (on general principle alone).

The list like the bunny goes on and on and on and on and on!