willravel, Mojo and stevo simply regurgitate the talking points that the Bushco
neocons and the Fox-Goebbels spin machine have fed them, They are incapable
of independent thought or research. Blind adherence evinces from Mojo the
curious phenomena of denial of the newer reality confirmed from Bush's own
lips.......Saddam did not co-operate with Al-Queda, and no WMD's were found
in an exhaustive and expensive post invasion search of Iraq that would
vindicate Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice/Powell pre-invasion rhetoric/bluster/propaganda/justification for invasion.
The brainwashed/in denial, "Bush can do no wrong" mindset cannot cope with
facts like the miniscule numbers of foreign fighters killed or captured in Iraq,
or that Al-Zarqawi is a Bushco hyped excuse to justify the needless, senseless,
and unjustified 10000 plus U.S. military casualties we have suffered as a
result of the criminal, incompetent, Bush regime's illegal, deadend, sideshow
invasion of Iraq. Bush put on a desperate show last night in a pathetic attempt to convince the citizenry that the young marine(s) who died for
nothing in Iraq, actually accomplished something noteworthy for American
security by the destruction of Fallujah, using his emotionally devastated parents as a propaganda stage prop. If Bush was motivated by anything other than his pre-election polling, why did he call a halt to the well advanced
drive against Fallujah, last april, pulling back then to allow the Iraqi insurgency to strenghthen itself and provide even more dealy resistance once
Bush could carry out the planned military agenda, with the accountability of
the Noember election behind him?
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=144396&page=2">http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=144396&page=2</a>
................"This is a murky story," said Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser. "I'm sure we'll find out more but what we do know about Zarqawi is that he knew Iraq well."
Since then, the president has subtly altered his language when discussing Zarqawi's presence in Baghdad before the war. Bush no longer maintains Zarqawi was harbored by Saddam, just that he was there.
In campaign stops on Oct. 1 and 2, Bush said, "Zarqawi was in and out of Baghdad."
Now Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he knows of no intelligence linking Saddam and al Qaeda. ................
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Now......ten months after the following MSNBC report was published, (back
then, bogeyman Zarqawi was credited with 700 deaths !!!!!....... he is
supposedly still alive and fomenting resistance.)
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<a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/">http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/</a>
Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind
Abu Musab Zarqawi blamed for more than 700 killings in Iraq
By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:14 p.m. ET March 2, 2004
With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.
But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.
In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.
‘People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of pre-emption against terrorists.’
— Roger Cressey
Terrorism expert
“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.
“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.
In January 2003, the threat turned real. Police in London arrested six terror suspects and discovered a ricin lab connected to the camp in Iraq.
The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war, but it was too late — Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone. “Here’s a case where they waited, they waited too long and now we’re suffering as a result inside Iraq,” Cressey added.
And despite the Bush administration’s tough talk about hitting the terrorists before they strike, Zarqawi’s killing streak continues today
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Or....is Zarqawi simply an elaborate U.S. propaganda, domestic "psy-ops"
creation of the Bushco. itself ?
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<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4466324/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4466324/</a>
By Rod Nordland
Newsweek
Updated: 3:01 a.m. ET March 7, 2004
March 6 - The stark fact is that we don’t even know for sure how many legs Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has, let alone whether the Jordanian terrorist, purportedly tied to al Qaeda, is really behind the latest outrages in Iraq.
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<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO405B.html">Who is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi?</a>
.................Al Zarqawi's Links to Al Qaeda
Al Zarqawi is often described as an "Osama associate", the bogyman, allegedly responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in several countries. In other reports, often emanating from the same sources, it is stated that he has no links to Al Qaeda and operates quite independently. He is often presented as an individual who is challenging the leadership of bin Laden.
His name crops up on numerous occasions in press reports and official statements. Since early 2004, he is in the news almost on a daily basis.
Osama belongs to the powerful bin Laden family, which historically had business ties to the Bushes and prominent members of the Texas oil establishment. Bin Laden was recruited by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war and fought as a Mujahideen. In other words, there is a longstanding documented history of bin Laden-CIA and bin Laden-Bush family links, which are an obvious source of embarrassment to the US government.
In contrast to bin Laden, Al-Zarqawi has no family history. He comes from an impoverished Palestinian family in Jordan. His parents are dead. He emerges out of the blue.
He is described by CNN as "a lone wolf" who is said to act quite independently of the Al Qaeda network. Yet surprisingly, this lone wolf is present in several countries, in Iraq, which is now his base, but also in Western Europe. He is also suspected of preparing a terrorist attack on American soil.
He seems to be in several places at the same time. He is described as "the chief U.S. enemy", "a master of disguise and bogus identification papers". We are led to believe that this "lone wolf" manages to outwit the most astute US intelligence operatives.
According to The Weekly Standard --which is known to have a close relationship to the Neocons in the Bush administration:
"Abu Musab al Zarqawi is hot right now. He masterminded not only Berg's murder but also the Madrid carnage on March 11, the bombardment of Shia worshippers in Iraq the same month, and the April 24 suicide attack on the port of Basra. But he is far from a newcomer to slaughter. Well before 9/11, he had already concocted a plot to kill Israeli and American tourists in Jordan. His label is on terrorist groups and attacks on four continents." (Weekly Standard, 24 May 2004)
Al-Zarqawi's profile "is mounting a challenge to bin Laden's leadership of the global jihad."
In Iraq, he is said to be determined to "ignite a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites". But is that not precisely what US intelligence is aiming at ( "divide and rule") as confirmed by several analysts of the US led war? Pitting one group against the other with a view to weakening the resistance movement. .......................
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willravel...... I read their parroted Bushco propaganda with amusement and
with frustrated fascination. They blindly follow an incompetent idiot president,
vehemently defending his record of total failure and contradiction:
1.)Bushco failed to respond to early August 2001 warning of possible
infrastructure attacks via hijacked airliners. Indeed, Bushco presided
over a stand down of U.S. air defenses on 9/11.
2.)Bush vowed to capture Bin Laden, and months later, with no results,
declared to the press that Bin Laden was irrelevant and "he hardly thought
about him !".
3.)Entire administration proved wrong on reasons to invade Iraq. No WMD
threat found, no Al-Qaeda ties to Saddam. Bushco simply blamed failure
and incompetence on shoddy intelligence.
4.)Bush recently awarded the nation's highest civilian medals to failed
intelligence chief Tenent, and to failed post Iraq invasion CPA authority
Bremer, the man who dissolved all existing Iraqi military and police,
botched the infrastructure rebuilding goals, and now apparently lost track
of $9 billion in oil revenues that belonged to the Iraqi people.
Through it all, these deluded Bushco supporters are steadfast in their
ignorance; their misplaced confidence still firmly committed to an idiot
war criminal and his still evolving fascist corporate/government alliance.