Posted on 04/29/2006 5:41:26 PM PDT by jmc1969
In the months leading up to the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein did try to cooperate with United Nations inspectors, a decision that, paradoxically, helped convince the West that he was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
By late 2002, Saddam finally tilted toward trying to persuade the international community that Iraq was cooperating with the inspectors of Unscom (the United Nations Special Commission) and that it no longer had W.M.D. programs. Saddam was insistent that Iraq would give full access to United Nations inspectors "in order not to give President Bush any excuses to start a war."
Ironically, it now appears that some of the actions resulting from Saddam's new policy of cooperation actually helped solidify the coalition's case for war.
What was meant to prevent suspicion thus ended up heightening it. The tidbit about removing the term "nerve agents" from radio instructions was prominently cited as an example of Iraqi bad faith by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in his Feb. 5, 2003, statement to the United Nations.
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Wow....they're into Damage Control a little early for November....
Have these idiots read the Duelffer Report?
It continues to amaze me just how stupid and dishonest the mainstream press is. The truth is whatever they want it to be - getting the facts to the public doesn't matter.
The lyrics are good, but I don't know the song.
The NYT is still Stuck On Stupid.
The NY Slimes must be trying to get another pulitzer for their pathetic panty waist reporters. This one is too much even for the defenders of Stalin.
Although the NY Times represents views which are antithetical to the spirit of liberty and the principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the First Amendment is too important to trash in order to silence its pages.
The marketplace could do that in a few months by simply not buying the paper.
Thomas Jefferson often was criticized by the newspapers of his day, but he understood the importance of a free press. He said:
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Jefferson (17431826), U.S. president. Letter, January 16, 1787, to Edward Carrington. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 11, p. 49, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).
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