Where are the weapons of mass destruction?

national | miscellaneous | news report

Monday April 14, 2003 09:24

by James Mckenna

jimmymac61 at hotmalil dot com

Lieutenant-General Amer Hammoudi al-Saadi, who handed himself over to US forces yesterday, continued to proclaim that Iraq no longer holds any chemical or biological weapons. The US has already told us there are 14,000 sites and that they have "secret information" showing exactly where the sites are.

A substantial number of these sites have been inspected by the invading troops. Evidence of a "grave and gathering" threat......Zero.

In his State of the Union address in early February, President Bush was quite specific about the materials he believed Saddam was hiding: 25,000 litres of anthrax, 38,000 litres of botulinum toxin and 500 tons of sarin, mustard and nerve gas. These days, he does not mention weapons of mass destruction at all, focusing instead on the liberation of the Iraqi people – as if liberation, not disarmament, had been the project all along.

They said there were WMD....wrong!

They said there would be a "red line" the US would cross triggering the use of WMDs...........Wrong!

They said the people would rise with them against Saddam..........Wrong!

They said they wouldn't use cluster bombs oncivilian areas......wrong!

They said they would obey the rules of the Geneva Convention.............wrong!

THey said they wouldn't target journalists.......wrong!

They told us over and over they had found WMDs......wrong!

Saddam was dead , Ali was comical and Om Qsar was taken (again)......wrong!

They said their troops were brave courageous soldiers and they would be looked after.......wrong!

60% of the US troops in Iraq take home only around $US800 a month ,after tax or $US9,600 dollars annually. The US Census Bureau classifies a family of three as poor if its cash income is less than $US14,128 dollars a year, or $US11,569 dollars for a married couple.

These military families in the states who are going into debt because their husbands are not home to work the second and third job they need to survive could do with some of the billions being spent on this war. They could do with schools and hospitals too, every bit as much as Iraq. Not that the US has any intention of building infrastructure for the Iraqi people no more than for their own people, unless at some point in the future they have a few billion in the "Iraqi Oil Account" which they need to spend on contracts to their friends or they might have to actually give it to "the Iraqi People"

Now they want to invade Syria ...........wrong!