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[January 23 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Iraq's Parliament Is Back In Action And They Are Actually Getting Something Done... That's More Than Can Be Said For The U.S. Congress - Sitrep

by: Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service

Publication date: 2008-01-23

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In The News: Jose Padilla - A federal judge sentences him to 17 years, NOT LIFE as requested by the prosecution, and further, required vocational training for him in prison, which means he WILL NOT be kept in a SuperMax lockdown, comments that there WAS NO LINK between Padilla and any terrorist act. An appeal is possible and hopefully likely. More....

Arnold Schwarzenegger is attempting to drive a wedge into the federal boycott of Cuba by sending an agricultural trade delegation. You go Arnold!

The Dow Jones plunged some more yesterday but the global financial markets are beginning to stabilize. Details.

Fred Thompson drops out of the Rethuglican presidential race.

A new Iraqi flag has been voted by the Iraqi parliament! Yes! Reconstruction!

There are now 3931 dead American soldiers in our illegal war on Iraq, it's people, and it's culture.

Do you wonder how we got to this juncture? Juan Cole informs:

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
935 False Statements that Led a Nation to War

The Center for Public Integrity has published a study finding that
'President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.

On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war. '
Although the study starts out in a neutral tone, as you read, it becomes clear that the authors think the database of administration statements they have compiled shows a deliberate pattern of misrepresentation.

The study won't create a lot of controversy, since the American people long ago concluded that BushCo had lied us into a destructive and dangerous quagmire of a war. But it is nice to see someone nail down the specifics of the Goebbels-like propaganda campaign that was run on us.

The report continues... [In Full]

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Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service

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