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LIST OF PENTAGON LIES/PROPAGANDA

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday April 05, 2003 01:42author by i (personal capacity)

But people still believe them - got to have authority and order in the world, you know.

- Lie #1: 5000 Iraqi soldiers surrendered. The story has now disappeared.
- Lie #2: Poison Factory Found in Iraq.
http://www.canada.com/national/features/iraq/story.html?id=CC2D8BD1-D59C-4A94-AB B4-254C26D3B2C3
U.S. military finds nothing at suspected chemical facility in Najaf
Pentagon officials continue to argue that Saddam's forces could use
chemical or biological weapons
- Lie #3: US Forces have captured towns in Iraq. Truth: US Forces have yet to capture one single town in Iraq without obliterating it. http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news086.htm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Intelligence documents that U.S. and British governments said were strong evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons have been dismissed as forgeries by U.N. weapons inspectors.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/index.html

Agency disavows report on Iraq arms
THE WASHINGTON TIMES By Joseph Curl
The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020927-500715.htm

Toronto Sun: The startling revelation by the former CIA Iraq desk chief that the gassing death of 5,000 Kurds at Halabja; an event endlessly reiterated by Bush - may have been accidentally caused by Iran, not Iraq
http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_mar16.html
http://commondreams.org/views03/0316-03.htm

NEW YORK TIMES - We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the Halabja story. - A War Crime or an Act of War? http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/warcrime.html
http://truthout.org/docs_02/020303C.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-08.htm

Pentagon Caught In plans to bug phones and e-mails to spy on key Security Council Members. http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4616550,00.html

Britain's and Powell's Intelligence Dossier on Iraq was Plagiarized from 12 year old doctoral thesis. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell both praised and quoted that same British report in his presentation at the United Nations.
http://www.observer.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,891940,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/07/sprj.irq.uk.dossier/index.html
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/020603_plagiarized.html

Powell's 'Poison Factory' Claim exposed as a Lie
http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4601994,00.html

In their third progress report since U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 was passed in November, inspectors told the council they had not found any weapons of mass destruction, but they urged Iraq to be more cooperative.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/14/sprj.irq.un/index.html



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