RW ONLINE: They Lied And They Knew It\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLies the \r\nGovernment Told Us, Part 3\r\nThey Lied And They Knew It\r\n<\/p>
Revolutionary Worker #1204, June 22, 2003<\/i>, posted at \r\nrwor.org<\/p>\r\n
The U.S. and British governments set out last summer to conquer Iraq. All during their war buildup, \r\nthey said this war would protect <\/i>the world. The warmakers insisted they knew <\/i>Iraq had \r\n\"weapons of mass destruction\" (WMD) and ties with notorious terrorists--and so (they said) \r\nIraq had <\/i>to be invaded, and there had <\/i>to be a regime change.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Now, two long months after the war, the U.S. government has found zero <\/i>evidence of \r\nany <\/i>\"weapons of mass destruction\" in Iraq. Not a barrel, not a bottle, not a plant, not a \r\nshell--nothing. And they have found no evidence of ties to al-Qaida-type terrorists.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This is very disturbing to many people--including many of the people who believed <\/i>President \r\nGeorge Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair, and who ended up supporting the war because they believed \r\nIraq was a danger. Instead what they got was the U.S. using its <\/i>modern weapons of war--<\/i>to \r\nconquer and dominate a third world country and kill thousands of people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
A whole country now lives under military occupation--with broken power plants, contaminated \r\nwater and looted museums. And the questions keep mounting:<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\tWhere are all the battle-ready chemical and biological weapons that the U.S. and Britain said Iraq \r\nhad?<\/p>\r\n
\tWas all the so-called intelligence somehow mistaken? Or did the warmakers simply lie, and claim \r\nthere was global danger when there was none?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\tIf they lied, if WMD were a fake reason for the invasion, what was the real reason?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\tIf the U.S. government and president lied about something so important, what else are they lying \r\nabout?<\/p>\r\n
\tAnd finally, who can believe them about anything in the future?<\/p>\r\n
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The \"missing WMD\" has caused finger-pointing throughout the British and American \r\ngovernments. The infighting causes secrets to leak into view. Various government spy agencies want to \r\nprove that they <\/i>were not lying about WMD.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
From their leaks we can see that, long before <\/i>the war, analysts within the Central Intelligence \r\nAgency (CIA) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) were secretly reporting that they had no real \r\nevidence <\/i>of Iraqi WMD. So the heads of the U.S. and British governments knew <\/i>all along there \r\nwas no evidence, and were lying <\/i>when they said they had some.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This is what we will explore in Part 3 of our series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The U.S. government may announce, some day, that they found WMD in Iraq. But even if someone \r\nclaims to find traces of banned germs or chemicals, it now seems clear that Iraq's military did not have \r\nnuclear weapons, scud missiles or any battle-ready WMD. The U.S. government lied to the world when \r\nthey said they had hard secret evidence <\/i>of special urgent danger coming from Iraq.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
And, if the U.S. government someday announces it has found something in Iraq, after all this time \r\nand after all this lying, who will believe them?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
What the Government Claimed to the World<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Vice President Dick Cheney, launching the U.S. government's public push for war \r\nwith Iraq, Aug. 26, 2002: \"Simply stated, there's no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of \r\nmass destruction.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Sept. 8, 2002: \"Saddam Hussein \r\nis actively pursuing a nuclear weapon. We do know that there have been shipments into Iraq of aluminum \r\ntubes that really are only suited to nuclear weapons programs.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 19, 2002, said that Iraq has \"amassed large, \r\nclandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin, and mustard gas.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
British government report claimed Saddam Hussein \"has existing and active military plans \r\nfor the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within forty-five minutes.\" \r\n<\/i>(Sept. 2002)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Bush said, Sept. 28, 2002: \"The danger to our country is grave and growing. The Iraqi \r\nregime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more and, \r\naccording to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 \r\nminutes.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>As Congress was debating war powers, the National Intelligence Council published a \r\nbriefing document given to Congress. This \"National Intelligence Estimate\" said (Oct. 4, 2002): \r\n\"Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons... including mustard, sarin, cyclosarin and \r\nVX...Most analysts assess Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.''<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
George Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, said Iraq \"possesses and produces chemical and biological \r\nweapons.\" <\/i>Asked about the evidence, spokesman Ari Fleischer said: \"The president's \r\ndescription of the complete picture resulted from an interagency process in which every statement was \r\nvetted and approved by each agency.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
George Bush, Jan. 7, 2003: \"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had \r\nthe materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent ... upward of 30,000 \r\nmunitions capable of delivering chemical agents...materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of \r\nbotulinum toxin.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Secretary of State Colin Powell at UN, Feb. 5, 2003: \"Our conservative \r\nestimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent... My \r\ncolleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. \r\nWhat we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>On March 17, Bush delivered his war ultimatum to Iraq and said: \r\n\"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime \r\ncontinues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, March 18, said any suggestion that Iraq had already destroyed its \r\nweapons were \"palpably absurd.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On March 30, in the first week of the war, Donald Rumsfeld said: \"We know where [the \r\nWMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north \r\nsomewhat.\" <\/i>(Interpress Service, June 3, 2003)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
The Facts Now Show:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Washington Post, June 7, 2003: \"During the weeks last fall before critical votes in \r\nCongress and the United Nations on going to war in Iraq, senior administration officials, including \r\nPresident Bush, expressed certainty in public that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons, even \r\nthough U.S. intelligence agencies were reporting they had no direct evidence that such weapons \r\nexisted.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>In September 2002, as the war buildup campaign started, the Defense Intelligence \r\nAgency (DIA) produced a report called \"Iraq: Key Weapons Facilities--An Operational Support \r\nStudy.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It said: \"There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling \r\nchemical weapons, or where Iraq has--or will--establish its chemical warfare agent production \r\nfacilities.\" <\/i>(From summary page leaked to Bloomberg News, June 6, 2003.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
When U.S. officials claimed aluminum tubes were proof of Iraq's nuclear program, one Department \r\nof Energy expert said: \"There is not much support for that theory around here.\" \r\n<\/i>Another said: \"The administration can say what it wants and we are expected to remain \r\nsilent.\" <\/i>(Guardian Oct. 9, 2002)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Vice President Cheney pressured the CIA to agree Iraq had WMD, while Rumsfeld created a special \r\nPentagon unit to invent \"links\" between Iraq and al-Qaida.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Washington Post, June 6, 2003: \"Multiple visits to the CIA by Vice-President Dick Cheney \r\ncreated an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments on \r\nIraq fit with Bush administration policy objectives, intelligence officials said... The visits `sent signals, \r\nintended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here,' one agency official \r\nsaid.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
NYT June 5, 2003: \"Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy, \r\nacknowledged that he created a small intelligence team inside his office shortly after the attacks on Sept. \r\n11, 2001, to search for terrorist links with Iraq and other countries that he suggested the nation's spy \r\nagencies may have overlooked.... Among the team's most prominent findings were suspected linkages \r\nbetween Iraq and Al Qaeda, a conclusion doubted by the CIA and DIA.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Guardian, June 10, 2003: \"The debunking of the Bush administration's pre-\r\nwar certainties on Iraq gathered pace yesterday when it emerged that the CIA knew for months that a \r\nconnection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida was highly unlikely.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Captured al-Qaida leaders, like Abu Zubaydah, all said they had no ties to Iraq's government. The \r\nGuardian reports: \"While the CIA shared its interrogation record of Zubaydah with other \r\nintelligence agencies, it did not release its conclusions to the public.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>The \"National Intelligence Estimate\" made public on Oct. 4, 2002, \r\nmisrepresented the actual CIA conclusion. That \"Estimate\" said: \" Baghdad has \r\nchemical and biological weapons.\" <\/i> <\/i>Washington Post now reports (June 7, 2003): \r\n\"Throughout the run-up to war, according to senior intelligence officials, intelligence agencies \r\nhad no direct evidence such as photographs or stolen Iraqi documents to support a firm conclusion about \r\nIraq's weapons of mass destruction.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Retired CIA analysts calling themselves \"Veteran Intelligence Professionals for \r\nSanity\" wrote in an open letter: \"The preponderant view, then as now, among nuclear \r\nscientists and engineers of the Intelligence Community and the Department of Energy's national \r\nlaboratories is that Iraq...had no nuclear program worthy of the name.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>In Britain, it is reported that MI6 (the British CIA) opposed publishing the \r\n\"September dossier\" which claimed Iraq's military could \"deploy chemical weapons \r\nwithin 45 minutes.\" <\/i>(Guardian, May 30, 2003)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
What Others Were Saying at the Time<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The evidence that the U.S. government was lying was available but rarely made it into the \r\nmainstream U.S. press before the war.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Guardian, Oct. 25: \"Donald Rumsfeld, the hawkish American Defense Secretary, has \r\nassembled a team of experts to scour intelligence data for links between Iraq and al-Qaida... Officials in \r\nthe intelligence establishment said the team was part of an effort by Mr. Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul \r\nWolfowitz, to force the facts to fit their version of reality, according to which Saddam Hussein is working \r\nclosely with terrorists and poses a serious threat to the U.S.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Revolutionary Worker, Nov. 10, 2002: \"An aide to Secretary of Defense \r\nDonald Rumsfeld recalls that within hours after a plane crashed into the Pentagon, Rumsfeld told him to \r\nstart preparing war with Iraq. No one in the world has seen any evidence that Iraq has links to al-Qaida or \r\nwas involved in any way in the September 11 events--though that doesn't stop prominent figures in the U.S. \r\ngovernment from repeatedly claiming they have some.... there is no evidence that Iraq has any fissionable \r\nmaterial at all to make a bomb with.... The White House claims that the U.S. is vulnerable and Iraq is \r\nthreatening--but it has a very hard time making the case. The facts are clearly the other way \r\naround.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Revolutionary Worker, after Powell's speech to the UN, Feb. 16, 2003: \"To frighten people \r\nin the U.S., Powell has to paint a picture of Iraq threatening the American `homeland.' ...Iraq (unlike \r\nGeneral Powell) does not have any means of bombing a country halfway around the world. So to create \r\nfear of `threat,' Powell must suggest that Iraq may give biological poisons to al-Qaida operatives to deliver \r\nin some U.S. city. The problem is that there is no evidence of such `links'... So Powell must invent evidence \r\nfor the `missing links.' This speech was a smokescreen--not a `smoking gun'--it was designed to hide the \r\nreal reasons and motive of this war. Nothing in Powell's disinformation was believable, and even if some of \r\nit were true, it would not justify the massive war crime about to pound down on Iraq's people...As the U.S. \r\ngovernment ruthlessly prepares to start this war, people need to cut through this smoke, and expose the lies \r\nthat portray this imperialist conquest as a way to make people safer.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, says he knew before the war that the U.S. \r\nclaims were false (BBC News, May 24): \"We went to a great many sites that were given to us by \r\nintelligence, and only in three cases did we find anything--and they did not relate to weapons of mass \r\ndestruction. That shook me a bit, I must say...because we had been told that they would give the best \r\nintelligence they had, so I thought: `My God, if this is the best intelligence they had and we find nothing, \r\nwhat about the rest?' \"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Iraqi government itself insisted that it had no weapons of mass destruction. And this, apparently, \r\ncontinues to be claimed after the war <\/i>by Iraqi scientists and officials who are interrogated by the \r\nU.S. invaders.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
What the Facts Now Show:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Lieut. Gen. James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, May 30, 2003: \r\n\"It was a surprise to me then, it remains a surprise to me now, that we have not uncovered \r\n[chemical and biological] weapons... Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually every \r\nammunition supply point between the Kuwait border and Baghdad, but they're simply not \r\nthere.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>AP, June 9, 2003: \"U.S. military units assigned to track down Iraqi weapons \r\nof mass destruction have run out of places to look and are getting time off or being assigned to other \r\nduties... The slowdown comes after checks of more than 230 sites.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
What the GovernmentsNow Claim<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b><\/b>
Method #1: Deny the Lies<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Prime Minister Blair: \"The idea that we authorized or made our intelligence agencies \r\ninvent some piece of evidence is completely absurd.\" <\/i>(Washington Post, May 31, 2003)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
CIA Director George Tenet, May 30, 2002: \"The integrity of our process was maintained \r\nthroughout, and any suggestion to the contrary is simply wrong.'' <\/i>(AP, June 7, 2003)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Colin Powell on Fox news: \"More evidence and more proof will come forward as we go \r\ndown this road.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Dick Gephardt, Democratic candidate for president: \"There is long, consistent, \r\nclear evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. And I'm still convinced that we are \r\ngoing to find them.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i><\/b><\/i>
<\/i><\/b> Method #2: Switch Terminology<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
George Bush, June 9, 2003: \"Intelligence throughout the decade shows they had a \r\nweapons program. I am absolutely convinced that with time, we'll find out they did have a weapons \r\nprogram.\"<\/i>(AP)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Suddenly Bush is not talking about finding weapons <\/i>--but something very different \"a \r\nweapons program <\/i>.\" A \"weapons program\" merely means that a government \r\ncould potentially <\/i>build a weapon--that they have experts, materials, and dual use facilities. There is \r\na world of dishonesty between charging Iraq with having specific weapons and charging Iraq with having \r\nthe potential to build some weapons (which almost any country with a modern chemical and \r\npharmaceutical industry has).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The change in terminology is appearing elsewhere: On May 28, State Department spokesman \r\nRichard Boucher said that two trailers were discovered in the north of Iraq and declared, \"It is \r\nvery important to recognize that programs that we had said existed do exist; that the kind of equipment that \r\nwe had said existed.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i><\/b><\/i>
<\/i><\/b> Method #3: Say it doesn't matter<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
On May 27, Donald Rumsfeld said that the Iraqi government \"may have had time to \r\ndestroy them\" <\/i>before the war. He said this casually as if the whole issue doesn't matter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In Britain, Rumsfeld's remarks were a bombshell. Robin Cook, a leader of the House of Commons, \r\nsaid Rumsfeld had blown \"an enormous gaping hole through the case for war that was made on \r\nboth sides of the Atlantic.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In the U.S., Rummy's views were quickly parroted. International Herald Tribune, June 9, 2003: \r\n\"The latest vogue in Washington is the proposition that it really doesn't matter whether Saddam \r\nHussein maintained an arsenal of unconventional weapons in recent years.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>Senator John McCain: \"The American people support what the president did, \r\nwhether we find those weapons or not.\" <\/i>(NYT, June 4, 2003)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Senator Pete Domenici: \"For those kind of experts to say that has changed the dynamics in \r\nthe Middle East... seems to me to outweigh all the questions about did we have every bit of evidence that we \r\nsay we had or not.\" <\/i>(NYT, June 4, 2003)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In a Vanity Fair <\/i>interview, Paul Wolfowitz said it was only \"bureaucratic \r\nreasons\" that led the U.S. government to talk about Iraq's arsenal, and said other reasons for war \r\nwere important if not often discussed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
Method #4: Claim they already found them<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
George Bush came up with the slickest move of all--simply claim the WMD were already \r\nfound.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In the end of May, he said: \"You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the \r\nworld, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. \r\nThey're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two.... for those who say we \r\nhaven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found \r\nthem.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
<\/i>When two trailers were found, \"experts\" were rushed there, and under great \r\npressured declared they were \"mobile weapons labs.\" \"Everyone has wanted to find \r\nthe `smoking gun' so much that they may have wanted to have reached this conclusion,\" <\/i>one \r\nintelligence expert told the NYT <\/i>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The trailers had no signs of biological weaponry. The British Observer <\/i>reported they were \r\nsold by Britain to Iraq's military in 1987 to produce hydrogen gas for weather balloons on artillery ranges. \r\nThe New York Times <\/i>(June 7, 2003) documented that Iraqi scientists all identified the trailers as \r\nhydrogen producers. A number of experts told the NYT <\/i>the trailers could not possible produce germ \r\nweapons. \"It is not built and designed as a standard fermenter,\"<\/i> said one. \r\n\"Certainly, if you modify it enough you could use it. But that's true of any tin can.\" \r\n<\/i>They pointed out that the trailers lacked essential equipment for sterilizing, growing and drying \r\nbacteria, without which no weapons materials could have been produced.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In short, the talk of \"mobile weapons lab\" are just more lies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b>
The Liar Next Time<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
John Dean, the Nixon aide who did prison time for covering up Watergate lies, now \r\nsays: \"In the three decades since Watergate, this is the first potential scandal I have seen that \r\ncould make Watergate pale by comparison...To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation \r\ninto war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security \r\nintelligence data, if proven, could be `a high crime' under the Constitution's impeachment \r\nclause.\"<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
New York Times, June 8, 2003: \"If such weapons are not found, some historians, \r\npoliticians and others worry about what might happen if Mr. Bush or a successor tried to rally American or \r\ninternational backing for another war--say, with Iran or North Korea--using disputed evidence to buttress \r\nthe case... What if, after a long and unsuccessful occupation, with American combat casualties taking a toll \r\non the national psyche, the question `Why are we in Iraq?' becomes the modern equivalent of `Why are we \r\nin Vietnam?'<\/i><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/i>
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Revolutionary \r\n Worker,<\/span><\/i><\/b> Nov. 10, 2002: \"No \r\n one in the world has seen any evidence that Iraq has links to al-Qaida or was \r\n involved in any way in the September 11 events--though that doesn't stop prominent \r\n figures in the U.S. government from repeatedly claiming they have some.... The \r\n White House claims that the U.S. is vulnerable and Iraq is threatening--but \r\n it has a very hard time making the case. The facts are clearly the other way \r\n around.\"<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n *****<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/b><\/b><\/b>\r\n Revolutionary \r\n Worker <\/span><\/i><\/b> after Powell's speech to \r\n the UN, (Feb. 16, 2003): \"...Iraq (unlike General Powell) does not have \r\n any means of bombing a country halfway around the world. So to create fear of \r\n `threat,' Powell must suggest that Iraq may give biological poisons to al-Qaida \r\n operatives to deliver in some U.S. city. The problem is that there is no evidence \r\n of such `links'... So Powell must invent evidence for the `missing links.' This \r\n speech was a smokescreen--not a `smoking gun'--it was designed to hide the real \r\n reasons and motive of this war. Nothing in Powell's disinformation was believable... \r\n As the U.S. government ruthlessly prepares to start this war, people need to \r\n cut through this smoke, and expose the lies that portray this imperialist conquest \r\n as a way to make people safer.\"<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n Links to \r\nPrevious Articles:<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\nPart I<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\nPart II<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p> <\/p> This article is posted in English and Spanish on Revolutionary Worker Online \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/rwor.org - Revolutionary Worker Online<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/rwor.org\/resistance -RW resource page on resisting the juggernaut of \r\nwar and repression<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/2changetheworld.info - Discuss \r\nrevolutionary strategy and the RCP's Draft Programme<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":".","numcomment":7,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/06\/65674.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":65693,"heading":"Biggest Lie: 9\/11\/01 Reichstag Fire","article":"The biggest lie the Nazi Bush Administration has told while in office is the Reichstag Fire of 9\/11\/01, an inside job perpetrated by the US military and the CIA to promote fascism at home and war abroad. It was the CIA's Operation Northwood realized. See Body of Secrets by James Bramford on Operation Northwood. There were no attacks from the outside; there were no hijackers on those planes as they were on automatic pilot, the cell phone calls were staged; the towers in New York were brought down with construction explosives and the Pentagon was hit by an American guided missile. The evidence is clearly stated all over the Internet and in such excellent books as: \r\nThe War on Freedom by Nafeez Mosaddez Ahmed; \r\nPainful Questions by Eric Hufschmid (See http:\/\/www.dpgear.com) \r\nPentagate and 9\/11: The Big Lie, both by Thierry Meyssan \r\n\r\nThe question remains: Why doesn't the socialist press of the US expose the Reichstag Fire of 9\/11\/01? After all, it was the communist, George Dimitrov, who exposed the Nazis' Reichstag Fire in a courtroom to the world, proving that the Nazis burned their own government building, the Reichstag, to promote fascism at home and war abroad. The socialist press I knew in the 1960s exposed the assassination of Pres. Kennedy as being an inside job, and the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald, the falsely accused assassin, did not kill anyone on November 22, 1963. \r\n\r\nIt is long overdue that the American socialist press catch up to the rest of the world's progressive community and lots of very aware people in the US who have good scientific and legal training and expose the grandest lie of all from Nazi Bush: 9\/11\/01 was a grand hoax, a crime against humanity, mass murder and certainly an impeachable offense mandating the eviction of Nazi Bush and his entire cabinet from office, disbarring all attorneys he appointed to office, barring all members of the Bush Administration from holding public office ever again; and large fines of all the wealthy members of Nazi Bush's administration, including Bush, for the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings, the Pentagon, the airplanes, and most importantly, the lives of the people murdered by the American government on 9\/11\/01 at their Reichstag Fire. 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