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Titolo: Le bugie che ci hanno detto: un riassunto

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/03/27_lies.html
A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY
 by Kelley Kramer 
Here is a list of the serial lying from the Bush Regime about Iraq,
including links to a cross section of all the news sources.
It's nowhere near a complete list, and you probably already knew about
most of these lies, but its a great list to send any annoying
dittohead who buys into this fake war.
 Best,
 Kelley Kramer
Note - I lifted much of this from an internet forum and lost the link,
apologies for not being able to give due credit.
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 If Iraq is so bad, why does the Bush Administration have to
repeatedly Lie to start a war?
 1. Powell relies on FORGED documents to link Saddam to terror.
MSNBC: "They have been the closest of allies. But under the intense
pressure of a diplomatic crisis at the United Nations and an imminent
war in Iraq, the friendship between the United States and Britain is
beginning to fray. The most recent strain emerged when U.N. nuclear
inspectors concluded last week that U.S. and British claims about
Iraq's secret nuclear program were based on forged documents. The fake
letters supposedly laid out how Iraqi agents had tried to purchase
uranium from officials in Niger, central Africa."
MORE: 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/883164.asp?cp1=1
CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Intelligence documents that U.S. and British
governments said were strong evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear
weapons have been dismissed as forgeries by U.N. weapons inspectors.
MORE: 
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/14/sprj.irq.documents/index.html
 Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: The head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has demonstrated that UK and
US intelligence authorities relied on forged documents to support
assertions that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa.
MORE: 
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/15/1047583740556.html
LA Times: WASHINGTON -- Phony weapons documents cited by the United
States and Britain as evidence against Saddam Hussein were initially
obtained by Italian intelligence authorities, who may have been duped
into paying for the forgeries, U.S. officials said Friday. The
documents, which purport to show Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium from
Niger, were exposed as fraudulent by U.N. weapons inspectors last
week. The matter has embarrassed U.S. and British officials.
MORE: 
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-docs15mar15,0,5016930.story
And even more: 
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=africa+uranium+forged+documents
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2. Bush/Powell's UN "evidence" relies on even MORE supposedly "up to
date" FORGED documents to link Saddam to terror.
 CNN: Large chunks of the 19-page report -- highlighted by U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.N. as a " fine paper ...
which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities" --
contains large chunks lifted from other sources, according to several
academics. " The British government's dossier is 19 pages long and
most of pages 6 to 16 are copied directly from that document word for
word, even the grammatical errors and typographical mistakes,"
Rangwala said. Al-Marashi's article, published last September, was
based on information obtained at the time of the 1991 Gulf War,
Rangwala said. " The information he was using is 12 years old and he
acknowledges this in his article. The British government, when it
transplants that information into its own dossier, does not make that
acknowledgement. " So it is presented as current information about
Iraq, when really the information it is using is 12 years old."
MORE: 
http://asia.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/07/sprj.irq.uk.dossier/
 UK Guardian: Downing Street was last night plunged into acute
international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the
British government's latest dossier on Iraq - allegedly based on
"intelligence material" - were taken from published academic articles,
some of them several years old. Amid charges of "scandalous"
plagiarism on the night when Tony Blair attempted to rally support for
the US-led campaign against Saddam Hussein, Whitehall's dismay was
compounded by the knowledge that the disputed document was singled out
for praise by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, in his speech
to the UN security council on Wednesday.
MORE: 
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,892069,00.html
 
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,890962,00.html
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/207939.htm
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 3. Bush/Powell tries to use edited audio-tape to LIE about Saddam/Bin
Laden Connection.
 NY Times: It offered little evidence of an alliance between Mr.
Hussein and Mr. bin Laden, but it did seem to validate Arab leaders'
warnings that Islamic extremists would exploit any assault on Baghdad
to further inflame the region.
MORE: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/12/international/middleeast/12TAPE.html
NY Times: Germany dismissed Wednesday U.S. claims that a new audiotape
purportedly by Osama bin Laden proved he was in league with Iraq,
while some Muslims were cheered by the possibility the accused
mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks was still alive.
More: Article Link
Philadelphia Daily News: But if bin Laden was trying to show personal
solidarity with Saddam himself, he had a strange way of doing so. He
denounced Saddam's secular, socialist al-Baath party as "infidels."
What's more, the statement said that Iraq's rulers had "lost their
credibility long ago" and that "socialists are infidels wherever they
are." He didn't even mention Saddam by name.
MORE: 
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/5157847.htm
 Salon.com: War, lies and audiotape If truth is the first casualty of
war, then this war's second casualty is the credibility of Colin
Powell. Yesterday morning he insisted that the new tape from Osama bin
Laden would show a "partnership" between al-Qaida and Iraq. He told
the nation that he had a transcript of bin Laden's remarks.
Understandably, however, the secretary of state didn't read from the
transcript he claimed to have in his possession -- because it so
clearly contradicted the headlines he was trying to create.
MORE: 
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/02/12/osama/index_np.html
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4. Bush/Powell LIES again about Saddam's ability to deliver weapons of
mass destruction.
News Interactive: An Iraqi drone found by UN weapons inspectors is of
"very primitive" design and is definitely not capable of flying 500km
as suggested by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Jane's Defence
Weekly said today.
On February 5, Powell told the UN Security Council that the Iraqis
possessed a drone that could fly 500km, violating UN rules that limit
the range of Iraqi weapons to 150km. " There is no possibility that
the design shown on 12 March has the capability to fly anywhere near
500 kilometres," drones expert Ken Munson said on Jane's website
(
http://jdw.janes.com
). " The design looks very primitive, and the
engines -- which have their pistons exposed -- appear to be
low-powered," he said.
MORE: Article Link
 Originally from the NY Times: AL TAJI, Iraq -- To hear senior Bush
administration officials tell it, Iraq's latest pilotless drone has
the potential to be one of Saddam Hussein's deadliest weapons, able to
deliver terrifying payloads of chemical and biological warfare agents
across Iraq's borders to Israel or other neighboring states. It could
even, they say, be broken down and smuggled into the United States for
use in terrorist attacks. But viewed up close yesterday by reporters
hastened by Iraqi officials to the Ibn Firnas weapons plant outside
Baghdad, the vehicle the Iraqis have code-named RPV-30A, for remotely
piloted vehicle, looked more like something out of the Rube Goldberg
museum of aeronautical design than anything that could threaten Iraq's
foes. To the layman's eye, the unveiling of the Iraqi prototype seemed
to lend the crisis over Iraq's weapons an aura less of deadly threat
than of farce.
"In any case, he and other officials said, the vehicle could not be
controlled from a distance of more than 5 miles, in good weather,
since its controllers tracked it "with the naked eye."
MORE: 
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/112262_drone13.shtml
Boston Globe: Duct tape reinforced by aluminum foil held together the
black and white drone's balsa wood wings. The wooden propellers and
tiny engines were fastened to a well-worn fuselage, fashioned from the
fuel tank of a larger aircraft. The words ''God is Great'' were hand
painted in red ink on both sides. Perched on a sawhorse at a military
research base 20 miles north of Baghdad, the drone looked more like a
large school science project than a vehicle capable of delivering
chemical and biological weapons. Iraqi officials denied the airplane
had any strategic use.
More: Article Link
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5. Bush/Powell LIE about Iraq's Nuclear capabilities concerning
"aluminum tubes":
ABC News: Before Congress, and in public, President Bush and Secretary
of State Colin Powell have repeatedly pointed to aluminum tubes
imported by Iraq which they say are for use in making nuclear weapons.
But on Friday, head United Nations nuclear inspector Mohammad
ElBaradei told the Security Council that it wasn't likely that the
tubes were for that use. ElBaradei also said that documents Bush had
cited and relied upon to make the case that Iraq tried to buy uranium
from a country in central Africa were fake.
More: 
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/2020/GMA030310Iraq_weapons_evidence.html
 Washington Post: The finding: Iraq had tried to buy thousands of
high-strength aluminum tubes, which Bush said were "used to enrich
uranium for a nuclear weapon." But according to government officials
and weapons experts, the claim now appears to be seriously in doubt.
After weeks of investigation, U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq are
increasingly confident that the aluminum tubes were never meant for
enriching uranium, according to officials familiar with the inspection
process. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the
U.N.-chartered nuclear watchdog, reported in a Jan. 8 preliminary
assessment that the tubes were "not directly suitable" for uranium
enrichment
More: Article Link

apologies for not being able to give due credit.
*ROTFL*
Gia' questo squaligica tutto.
-Stefano