No Weapons of Mass Destruction? Why the Surprise?
 

With the revelation of David Kay's report that there are probably no WMD, there is now a Congressional hearing on the intelligence that led to this administration's rush to invade Iraq. If there wasn't a collective memory loss in Washington, it could all have been avoided. I'm not talking about having to retain obscure details from thirty years ago. I'm talking about a subject that was in the forefront of political discussions both in Washington and the UN. I'm talking about the summer of 1995. All of the intelligence agencies devoted to gathering information could have been eliminated simply by reading a transcript of the UNSCOM and IAEA interview of Hussein Kamel' .

The name may not be familiar to most Americans. That fact is the fault of the American media which has self-imposed a censorship on the truth. That this name was not in daily headlines in the run-up to finding an excuse to send America into a unilateral invasion reveals the complicity of the media with this administration's manipulation and lies and an indictment shared with the White House for crimes against humanity. The Fourth Estate was granted a Constitutional freedom because of its important role in acting as a check to government power, as well as keeping the electorate informed. It has neglected both of those duties ever since the Bush Bunch moved into the White House. Did the 70 closed door meetings between the media and the FCC to relax ownership regulations have anything to do with it?

Gen. Hussein Kamel was the son-in-law of Saddam Hussein and Director of Iraq's Military Industrialization Corporation, in charge of Iraq's weapons program. On August 7, 1995, he, his wife and children, and other family members defected to Jordan, bringing with him boxes of documentation on Iraq's weapons and the notes on their destruction. He told the CIA, British intelligence officials and UNSCOM that Iraq destroyed all of its chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them after the Gulf War. A Newsweek article that dared to bring Kamel's testimony to attention before the March invasion was called "incorrect, bogus and untrue" by the CIA and British authorities who said the interview with Kamel proved Iraq had an active program. That's simple enough to prove by reading the actual text of that interview. Doing so, one must conclude that since the president had already made up his mind to attack Iraq, the attempt to obscure any information to contradict the false evidence presented to the American people, and to promote the lies was a conscious and deliberate effort by this administration. http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kamel.pdf

It was not a failure of the intelligence agencies. It was an intentional, pre-meditated plan to lie. It was done to carry out an agenda of pre-emptive strikes against other countries in a quest for world domination. It was carried out under a pretext of a War on Terrorism regardless of the lack of any evidence of threat.

It also implicates Tony Blair, since British authorities were also aware of Kamel's testimony. An investigation by the British Lord Hutton produced a 700 page report clearing Blair of "sexing up" the intelligence as an excuse to war. This was another effort that could have been avoided by reading the UN debriefing of Kamel. Will our Congress come to the same flawed conclusion as their British counterparts by ignoring the obvious?

To discover why the truth is being hidden, why we were "lied" into war, and why the lies and excuses are still being reported, one only has to look at the policy paper put out by the right-wing think tank, Project For A New American Century (PNAC), "Rebuilding America's Defenses", which they openly and arrogantly display on their website. Also displayed are the names of its founders and charter members, like our Vice President, Richard Cheney, Secy. Of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, and other officials and advisors in this administration. The PNAC paper is a blueprint for aggression in bringing about the "New World Order". That order is American world dominance through the use of our military strength as the world's only remaining superpower. The paper states, "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." It says it transcends the issue of Saddam. It was calling for our attack of Iraq whether or not Saddam was still in power. It says nothing of WMD or terrorists. Paul Wolfowitz said in an interview he gave to Vanity Fair that WMD was the only excuse everyone could agree on. It said a Pearl Harbor-type event would be necessary to persuade the American people to accept a foreign policy of pre-emption. With the attacks on 9-11, they had that event. Investigative reporter, Nicholas Lemann wrote that Bush's most senior adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told him she had called together senior members of the National Security Council and asked them "to think about 'how do you capitalize on these opportunities'". If they could think of 9-11 as an "opportunity", it should come as no surprise that they chose invasion as a way to capitalize.

If they knew there were no WMD, then the systematic alerts of biological terror attacks and the warning from the Director of Homeland Security to wrap our homes in plastic and duct tape were nothing but cruel tricks to promote fear and prey upon our shocked senses and vulnerability. What a monstrous act that was instead of helping us all to heal as a nation. What a monstrous act it was to sacrifice the lives of Americans, Afghans and Iraqis to put on a "shock and awe" bombing display for the world. It was a showcase of American military power as a deterrent to other countries who would try to rival us, and for Americans, an anthem-like patriotic extravaganza to launch our march toward Empire.

As the PNAC paper says, we must make sure that our superpower status remains unchallenged. The plan is for American pre-eminence on land, air, sea, space and cyberspace. If anyone was wondering why President Bush is calling for a moon and Mars mission, one can again consult the PNAC blueprint and follow along with the script this administration is using to form its policies and missions. It states, "control of space“ defined by Space Command as " 'the ability to assure access to space, freedom of operations within the space medium, and an ability to deny others the use of space' must be an essential element of our military strategy"

This administration has pulled out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Have you wondered why? Turn again to the PNAC script which suggests, "there may be a need to develop a new family of nuclear weapons designed to address new sets of military requirements, such as would be required in targeting the very deep under-ground, hardened bunkers that are being built by many of our potential adversaries"

What can we look forward to if this cabal of PNAC Neo Cons remain in power? "...advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool"

This information is not top secret, except to our media who censor the material. It is available for anyone to read and it is being currently employed in forming our policies and legislation. Lies are simply more convenient to this administration because it is easier to manipulate the American people rather than have opposition to their plan for the American Empire. Their plans have been tempered so far because of having to face a campaign for re-election. With the two-term limit as proscribed in what's left of our Constitution, if this administration remains in power for another term the restrictions of "electability" will be removed and the more diabolical of their plans can be employed.

This is not a conspiracy theory although a conspiracy is certainly taking place by those in the White House against the rest of the world. It is a conspiracy of silence by the American media. This conspiracy is fact and it is verifiable with very little effort. It would be nice if the media, our representatives and the voters would make that effort. It would save an enormous amount of time, money and lives, and with plans for a renewal of a nuclear program, it may even save our planet.

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