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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 06:37 PM
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Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War
http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=84&num=14718

snip - Since then, it has emerged that Aznar and his cabinet office in fact erased all records covering their eight years of government. According to the New York Times, a Spanish official said every file had been wiped out on the hundreds of computers at the presidential complex, known as the Moncloa Palace. “Not a single trace of any files was left behind,” the official said. “Zero, nothing.”

Knowledge that the files were destroyed only came to light because the commission had requested the minutes of Aznar’s Cabinet Office crisis meetings on the day of the bombings. Officials from Zapatero’s government could not produce them, nor any other document of the time, including conversations held by Aznar with the heads of the Spanish media, foreign envoys, what reports he received or what instructions he gave.

It means none of Aznar’s declarations earlier this month to the commission can be proved or disproved. None of his statements regarding crisis meetings he held or measures taken by his government following the bombings can be verified.

The only conclusion that can be drawn is that Aznar and his government not only lied about what they knew about the authorship of the Madrid bombings, but that they also systematically lied about the illegal war in Iraq and rushed to destroy their records after their surprise election defeat by the PSOE on March 14 to hide the truth.


Hmmmmmmm........
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KeepItReal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 06:43 PM
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1. They even destroyed the backups...
Damn that's not good.
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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 06:46 PM
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2. Holy fucking SHIT!!!
We knew that Aznar was dirty, but destroying ALL the records of his government leaves me gasping. The sheer chutzpah of this is astounding. And it certainly leaves a LOT of questions about the Madrid train bombing, doesn't it?
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whosinpower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-02-05 06:48 PM
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3. Read the whole article
It is enlightening ESPECIALLY regarding the Madrid train bombing - his trying to blame ETA and the evidence that it was Al Quaeda all along.
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