by Harley Sorenson

San Francisco Chronicle

09/13/04

Before we invaded Iraq, our politicians told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in great quantities. Secretary of State Colin Powell even went to the United Nations and described Iraq's cache in detail, down to the pound of certain weapons. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told us that not only did Iraq have these weapons but he knew exactly where they were. This is why I seriously doubted that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. What our government told us defied logic and common sense. The United Nations had inspectors in Iraq looking for weapons. They couldn't find any. Logic and common sense, then, would have dictated that our government tell those inspectors where to look. After all, if we knew, why wouldn't we share our knowledge with the inspectors? We wouldn't, of course, because we didn't know...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/09/13/hsorensen.DTL


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

09/13/04

The tragic milestone of 1,000 U.S. deaths in the Iraqi quagmire should cause introspection about why the United States really went to war and whether it has been worth it. While the Bush administration's public justifications never really added up, evidence exists that there was a hidden agenda behind the invasion of Iraq: securing oil...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1362


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

FOCUS: Iraq: It's Worse Than You Think
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091404V.shtml

One man's resistance: 'Why I turned against America'

'There is no greater shame than to see your country occupied'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1302718,00.html


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by Pat Buchanan

LewRockwell.Com

09/13/04

This war will not continue indefinitely. America will not tolerate it. We were persuaded by George Bush to support an invasion to remove what was said to be a grave threat. The Congress may have given the president a blank check, but this nation never signed up for an endless war to make Iraq safe for democracy. Nor will Americans pay an endless price in blood to achieve it. If George Bush believes we will, he misreads America...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan13.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Da braut sich was zusammen. Die unter George W. Bush durchmilitarisierte US-Politik hat aus dem Chaos, welche die US-Regierung im Irak angerichtet hat, offenbar immer noch nichts gelernt. Anders ist ein soeben vom CIA in der "New York Times" publizierter Artikel nicht zu bewerten.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5288.php

US Senator Robert Byrd : We Stand Passively Mute:

This coming battle, if it materializes, represents a turning point in U.S. foreign policy and possibly a turning point in the recent history of the world. This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time

http://www.senate.gov/~byrd/byrd_newsroom/byrd_news_feb/news_2003_february/news_2003_february_9.html
http://tinyurl.com/61kc

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