Scott McClellan, White House spokesman, acknowledges that the two-year search for “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq have proven fruitless.  There have been no WMD in Iraq since 1991.

       NOTE: The existence of WMD was the primary reason for the pre-emptive war against Iraq.

       [restored 1/6/2024] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.

       Is it strange that militaristic states always exhibit the same symptoms?  People that think like fascist/socialists usually act like the statists they are, no matter the flag the happen to ‘serve’ under. –– JL

       Robert L. Hutchings, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, releases Mapping the Global Future, a 119-page report, warning that Iraq is replacing Afghanistan as the next preparation center for international terrorism.

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       Isn’t “National Intelligence Council” a euphemistic oxymoron for a department of “The Ministry of Truth”?–– JL

       At the court martial of United States Army Reserve Specialist-4 Charles Graner (private mercenary), Hussein Mutar, former inmate at Abu Ghraib prison, in Baghdad, Iraq, in videotaped testimony, says,

       I couldn’t believe in the beginning that this could happen, but I wished I could kill myself because no one was there to stop it. …

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       They were torturing us as though it was theater for them….

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       I was extremely emotional because (even) Saddam didn’t do this to us.

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