Robert Scheer on Iraq and WMD . . .

[OneBlueSky]

Bush Was All Too Willing to Use Émigrés' Lies
American experts urged the White House to be skeptical, but they hit a stone wall.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer2sep02,1,800263.column?coll=la-headlines-oped-manual

"Oops. There are no weapons of mass destruction after all. That's the emerging consensus of the second team of weapons sleuths commanded by the U.S. in Iraq, as reported last week in the Los Angeles Times. The 1,400-member Iraq Survey Group found what the first wave of U.S. military experts and the United Nations inspectors before them discovered — nada.

"Nothing, not a vial of the 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin or the 25,000 liters of anthrax or an ounce of the materials for the 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent claimed by George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech as justification for war. Nor any sign of the advanced nuclear weapons program, a claim based on a now-admitted forgery. Nor has anyone produced any evidence of ties between the deposed Hussein regime and the Al Qaeda terrorists responsible for 9/11.

"The entire adventure was an immense fraud."

(snip)

"How distressing that it turns out to be Bush, leader of the world's greatest democracy, who is the true master of denial and deception, rather than Hussein, who proved to be a paper tiger. Bush is such a master at deceiving the American public that even now he is not threatened with the prospect of impeachment or any serious congressional investigation into the possibility that he led this nation into war with lies."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer2sep02,1,800263.column?coll=la-headlines-oped-manual

[zbdent]

1. No way. There's evidence of a program of weapons.

Now, they may not have been weapons of mass destruction, but we have a receipt here that Saddam had a pistol purchased off eBay, and here's the credit card statement from him paying it off!

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2. Robert Scheer, is a smart guy, the story here sound like he is ........

flying under the radar. I am sure he could write a much more damning piece, but probably figures to keep it palatable, so as not to turn people away. I have heard him quite a few times on radio and can say he gets it.