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Monday September 09, 2002 17:14
by Carlos
For anyone who has the remotest suspicion that there is any substance to all the current warmongering, check it out from the mouth of the ex-weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter. Don't forget that US warplanes currently passing through Shannon are undoubtably supporting the current war in Iraq.
The first article here from Commondreams is based on a speech by Scott Ritter in Iraq. Ritter is an American, Republican (in the US sense), Bush-voting, ex-UN weapons inspector in Iraq. When he says that Iraq is not a serious threat, you have to take him seriously:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-01.htm
Perhaps the US could listen to its own advice and allow unfettered inspections of its own facilities where biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction are being produced.
(Not) Funnily enough, if one were to enquire where Iraq got the material for its chemical and biological weapons, the answer would be (at least in part) America. A US Senate report has found that the US "sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq". The article is from the Sunday Herald (Scotland) via commondreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm
It was reported in some Sunday newspapers that 100 bombing sorties were conducted in Iraq on Saturday. This means that the war has begun in all but name. Troops are on the ground in Northern Iraq, doing the prepwork for a full scale invasion.
This war is currently being supported by our government by illegaly allowing US military planes refuel at Shannon airport. All anti-war action in this country should be directed towards ending this situation, preferably by non-violent direct action at Shannon airport.
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Oh those 100 hours of march 1991.
I spent a few drinking in Rathmines watching cruise missiles on TV.
Bush 1. Sadam. all those old characters, the beginning for most of New World Order.
(For others it had begun when Bush and Reagan took the podium to rail against Black Panthers and student anti-war activists back in 1960´s California... oh the days, the background...)
Now a clue for the "get the details right" reseachers, which neutral state whose tenth constitutional article commits itself to "exclusiveliy peaceful means of settling international disputes" [neutrality] proffered one of her sons, then a sub-editor for the Evening Press, to serve as English Language Editor of the Saudi press for the period lasting from six days before Iraq´s entry to the emirate of Kuwait to a neat six months after the 100hour war ended?
Of interest to IMC Ireland?
I believe this individual to be presently employed by the unison group.
Maybe that "neutral" state will offer its linguistic skills and valued "neutrality" this time as the war goes from covert to overt.
Strange times this.
Peace=WAR.
Lies=truth.
and yes planes still come in and out of shannon, but since the days of Mr Nice no nice stuff on board anymore...
Irish involvement in Iraq... now there´s a book probably never will be published.
Scott Ritter received and admitted receiving $400,000 from an Iraqi ally of Sadam Hussein for the making of some media program.
Scott Ritter's opinion is compromised. He is just a mouthpiece of Saddam Husein.
And Bush is totally impartial, never took a penny from the oil barons.
Can you back up your claim that Ritter took $400,000 from an 'ally' of Saddam? Smells like shit.
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