American Fib Factory (Canada's premier foreign correspondent opines on Iraq)

The Toronto Sun ^ | June 6, 2004 | Eric Margolis

[quidnunc]

The White House's Iraq fib factory went into overdrive last week, ballyhooing claims that the new "caretaker government" the UN had supposedly just installed in Baghdad was "fully sovereign" and "totally independent."

We would like to believe American president George Bush. But this latest claim comes from the same truth-deficient people who concocted Iraq's imminent threat to destroy the U.S. with nuclear and germ weapons, Saddam Hussein's vans and drones of death, Saddam's tryst with Osama bin Laden, and a slew of other preposterous whoppers that would have made the Nazis' propagandist, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, blush deep crimson.

A political charade

The latest U.S.-authored regime change in Iraq was a political charade designed to soothe uneasy American voters who are increasingly alarmed by the aimlessness, mounting casualties and $186-billion US cost — as much as the Vietnam War at its height — of the Iraq misadventure.

The White House dreads the oncoming national uproar when the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq hits 1,000. It desperately needs to show some light at the end of the Iraq tunnel before November's elections.

So it arm-twisted the UN's weak secretary general, Kofi Annan, into allowing his organization to be crudely misused to legitimize continuing U.S.-British occupation of Iraq by supposedly selecting candidates for the new "sovereign" regime.

In the end, Washington chose its own men and simply ignored the UN after it provided the required fig leaf.

The result: Iraq's new regime, installed under the guns of U.S. tanks, makes the former Soviet Union's Eastern European satellite states look like paragons of unfettered independence.

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[Bobber58]

as with all straw man arguments
I believe the proper response is
"pizzer off, ya wanker"

[TiaS]

Peep.

[Steely Tom]

Sunday morning drivel from the pigmy empire.

(steely)

[meenie]

The proof will be in the pudding. All he will have to do is wait to see the outcome in the future. Hindsight will be a better indicator than foresight.

[Zeppo]

But this latest claim comes from the same truth-deficient people who concocted Iraq's imminent threat to destroy the U.S. with nuclear and germ weapons

It takes a great deal of chutzpah, Eric, to tell a whopper of a lie when you're accusing someone else of lying, huh...