Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama is all good and well. I agree he gave a very powerful answer as to why he supports Obama and a very eloquent response to questions outside NBC’s studio. I can see why his words are important for Americans.
But then remember this is a man who lied to the world about Iraq.
Phoney Bliar’s smug grin returns to the television screen.
The lies told in the run up to the Iraq invasion are the best arguments against 9/11 (and 7/7) conspiracy theories.
Human rights watch, Afghanistan:
The Times has some more, including a video of the aftermath. Note who the US military thinks acts as ‘independent evidence’:
The government has been told by the Information Commissioner that it must release information on the September 2002 dossier. This document contained the infamous claim that Saddam Hussein was capable of launching WMDs within “45 minutes”.
Joe Biden once ripped off Neil Kinnock.
It seems John McCain wanted to show the world his skill in using The Internets by ripping off Wikipedia.
Still at least American politicians don’t rip off dissertations by postgraduate students in order to justify war. (Though that is largely due to American politicians not caring too much about justifying wars they are about to launch.)
Ron Suskind claims the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.
As noted by Booman Tribune, this was then leaked to the Daily Telegraph’s Con Coughlin (an appropriate name given his dubious record in tub-thumping for war on Iraq and Iran).
Alan Dershowitz said that the killing of Robert Kennedy was the United States’ first taste of “Islamic terrorism”.
Is that statement true? I am pretty certain the man who killed Kennedy was a Christian, motivated by Palestinian nationalism.
Hassan Butt, who claimed to be a leading terrorist operative in the United Kingdom, told the police that he made up a number of key details and stories that form part of his book, Leaving Al-Qaeda. You see the Channel 4 news report on this at Indigo Jo.
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