Wojna w Iraku

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    • Gość: Kerry Re: Bush wprowadzil w blad kazdego z nas IP: 168.103.126.* 20.06.03, 15:03
      Bush 'misled every one of us', says rival for White House
      By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
      20 June 2003


      The leading Democratic presidential contender John Kerry has brought the Iraqi
      weapons controversy to the forefront of the White House race, accusing George
      Bush of "misleading every one of us" when he took the US to war against Saddam
      Hussein.

      Senator Kerry said the President made the case for war based on at least two
      faulty intelligence findings - that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Niger,
      and that the Baghdad regime had drones able to mount biological attacks on the
      US. Mr Kerry, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, said Mr Bush broke his
      promise to build an international coalition against Saddam and then waged a war
      based on questionable intelligence. "He misled every one of us," the
      Massachusetts Senator said. "That's one reason why I'm running to be President
      of the United States."

      Despite Mr Kerry's robust language, it remains to be seen whether his broadside
      will ignite a political debate on Iraq's missing weapons. The debate in the
      United States has been relatively low key compared with the controversy in
      Britain, despite the post-conflict turmoil which has seen several American
      soldiers killed by Iraqis.

      One reason that Mr Bush has had an easier ride than Tony Blair is the
      continuing public support for the war. The divisions among the nine Democrats
      seeking to win his job in 2004 have also helped. Three of the main candidates,
      Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator John Edwards and the former House minority
      leader Dick Gephardt, have strongly backed the war. Two other candidates, the
      former Vermont governor Howard Dean and Senator Bob Graham, have sharply
      questioned pre-war intelligence and the use made of it by the Bush
      administration.

      But none of them has the stature on security issues of Mr Kerry, a decorated
      Vietnam veteran who later became a vehement opponent of that war.

      On Iraq, he has been somewhere in the middle. He supported the congressional
      resolution last autumn giving Mr Bush the right to use force against Saddam,
      yet has been a strong critic of how the President went about the job.

      But he has not always judged the mood right, running into a storm of criticism
      on the eve of the war when he suggested that there was a need for regime change
      in Washington as well as Baghdad.

      He is on safer ground now, with his call for a full-scale investigation on
      Capitol Hill. Mr Kerry said said that it was too early to conclude whether or
      not war with Iraq was justified. But a congressional investigation into US
      intelligence on Iraq was essential.

      He said: "I will not let him off the hook throughout this campaign with respect
      to America's credibility and credibility to me, because if he lied, he lied to
      me personally."

      He said that it was not clear whether Mr Bush acted on poor, distorted or
      politicised intelligence. "I don't have the answer," Mr Kerry said. "I want the
      answer and the American people deserve the answer. I will get to the bottom of
      this."

      * Former vice-president Al Gore, once a newspaper reporter, may be returning to
      the media business.

      Mr Gore has been meeting potential investors interested in establishing a cable
      television network, according to Time magazine's online edition. Democrats are
      reportedly keen to launch a network to counter dominant Republican voices in
      the American
    • Gość: grzegorz kwasniewski z millerem powinni to codziennie IP: *.pppool.de 20.06.03, 16:36
      po piec razy ogladac, chociaz i tak nic im by nie pomoglo
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        You wouldn't know if from listening to the leading Democratic candidates for
        President, but "Weaponsgate" may ultimately bring about the downfall of the
        Bush regime and its allies in London, Canberra, and elsewhere. The neo-
        conservatives may have also finally stirred something in the Fourth Estate,
        which has suddenly begun challenging the lying echo chambers in the White House
        and Number 10 Downing Street.

        The arrogance displayed by the Bush regime, somewhat surprising since it gained
        power through a fraudulent election process, is what may result in its eventual
        undoing. Bush may or may not ever realize how he was ill served by the neo-con
        blight that took root within his administration, particularly within the
        Department of Defense. But the historians and scholars, who will look back on
        what turned the tide for a supposedly "popular" war president, will point to
        the self-described "cabal" whose lies brought about a credibility gap unseen in
        the United States since the days of Watergate. In fact, Bush's "Weaponsgate"
        will be viewed as a more serious scandal than Watergate because 1) U.S. and
        allied military personnel were killed and injured as a result of the caper; 2)
        Innocent Iraqi civilians, including women and children, died in a needless
        military adventure; and 3) the political effects of the scandal extended far
        beyond U.S. shores to the United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and other countries.

        Other effects of Weaponsgate are already apparent. Defense Secretary Donald
        Rumsfeld, the majordomo of the neo-cons within the Pentagon, cannot find anyone
        to take the place of outgoing Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki.
        Generals Tommy Franks and Shinseki's vice chief, General John "Jack" Keane,
        want no part of the job. After winning a lightning war against Iraq, Franks
        suddenly announced his retirement. He and Keane witnessed how Rumsfeld and his
        coterie of advisers and consultants, who never once lifted a weapon in the
        defense of their country, constantly ignored and publicly abused Shinseki. Army
        Secretary and retired General Tom White resigned after a number of clashes with
        Rumsfeld and his cabal. The Commander of the First Marine Expeditionary Force
        in Iraq, Lt. Gen. James Conway, said he was surprised that he encountered no
        chemical weapons in Iraq.

        Perhaps Conway was surprised because that is what the neo-cons wanted him and
        his fellow Marines to believe. Conway and his troops were merely additional
        victims of "Weaponsgate." Paul Wolfowitz, a chief neo-con cabalist, let the cat
        out of the bag in Singapore when he said that everyone could agree on a cause
        of war being Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. That would be the common
        denominator in justifying an attack, whether or not such weapons could ever be
        found. Wolfowitz also stated that Iraq's swimming on a "sea of oil" was the
        reason it had to be attacked and not, for example, North Korea. The fact that
        weapons of mass destruction are actually possessed by North Korea, a country
        lacking any significant natural resources, is of no concern to the neo-cons.
        Oil was and is the bottom line in Iraq. Sometimes, even the liars trip up and
        actually tell the truth. But only in a world where the neo-cons have enjoyed a
        stranglehold on the corporate media can Wolfowitz's supporters claim he was
        misquoted and the UK's Guardian be forced to print a clarification, one step
        short of a retraction. Congenital liars like Wolfowitz should never be given
        the benefit of the doubt on any issue..

        Bush's Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, who has had his own problem with
        recognizing the truth, was obviously concerned how the history books will treat
        him. He decided to leave his post mid-term rather than face the music over his
        repeated distortions about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction as a casus belli.
        Other Bush administration officials, political and career, have also jumped off
        what appears to be a rapidly sinking ship of state. They include Richard Haass,
        who as the director for policy planning, was number three at the State
        Department; Christine Todd Whitman, Environmental Protection Agency
        administrator; Rand Beers, the senior National Security Council director for
        counter-terrorism; Charlotte Beers, the State Department chief for
        International Public Diplomacy (who was said to have resigned for
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