The lying game

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=526965

An A-Z of the Iraq war and its aftermath, focusing on misrepresentation, manipulation, and mistakes

01 June 2004


A Mohammed Atta. The Bush administration claimed that a meeting between the lead hijacker of the 11 September attacks and a senior Iraqi intelligence officer proved a connection between al-Qa'ida and Saddam Hussein. But there is no evidence such a meeting took place.

B Bush and Blair: The two leaders have reacted strongly to all suggestions they misled their respective electorates over the war, and maintain time will prove they were right to go to war. Both, though, are suffering poll difficulties, as problems in Iraq become worse, and each needs speedy improvement to shore up his position.

C Ahmed Chalabi. The leader of the Iraq National Congress, who is a member of the Iraq Governing Council, is now accused of having duped the Bush administration, as well as the media, into believing that Saddam Hussein represented a direct threat to US and British security.

D Dollars. Between 1992 and the US raid on Ahmed Chalabi's home last week, the US government channelled more than $100m (£55m) to his Iraqi National Congress. The money may have been a motivating factor for defectors to say what they thought the Americans wanted to hear. That funding has now been stopped.

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[Malva Zebrina]

1. Powell not mentioned

yet he played a major part in the lying before the UN and a major actor in front of TV cameras.

thanks for the link

[Just Me]

2. Very cool link!!!

I'm printing the A - Z list to share *smile*.

[struggle4progress]

3. The rest of the world sees it clearly.

[Miss Authoritiva]

4. Here's a silly observation:

"The Iraqi scientist Hamdi Shukuir Ubaydi buried documents related to Iraq's nuclear programme in his garden, and they were found last June in the search for WMD after the war last June. However there was no confirmation of the US claim that they were the "smoking gun" the Americans were looking for."

How sophisticated could the Iraqi nuclear program be if one of its lead scientists buries paper documents in his garden -- rather than storing and secreting them digitally?

Just a thought.

[donhakman]

5. The lieing game