'I'm protesting for Iraq's children' (VOMITING TILL YOU DIE ALERT)

Anti-war group Voices in the Wilderness is protesting at the armed forces' HQ in Northwood, west London, on Saturday, against possible conflict with Iraq.

Protester Richard Byrne explains why he thinks military action would be catastrophic.

"I am opposed to the war on Iraq for lots of reasons, mainly because it is likely to cause massive civilian casualties.

Like the porky guy with the chemical weapons doesn't? Ever hear of the secret police? - Ivan

And also because all violence produces cycles of violence which come back again and again.

Perhaps someone should explain that to Saddam first - after all, he invaded both Iran and Kuwait - Ivan

After the attack on Iraq in 1991, the UN assessment team described the scene there as "near apocalyptic destruction, with most modern means of life support destroyed or rendered tenuous."

Twelve years of comprehensive economic UN sanctions have greatly reduced Iraq's ability to repair that damage.

Ever hear of "Oil for Food", moron? The thing that is limiting Saddam from repairing anything is Saddam, and the fact that he wants 50 odd presidential palaces - Ivan

I saw the effects of that for myself when I visited Iraq in January 2001 - children dying quietly in hospital wards from malnutrition and pneumonia.

Again, ever hear of "Oil for Food" - perhaps you ought to ask Saddam to cut back on the caviar for once before you blame the West - Ivan

They are the children killed by sanctions - the weapon of mass destruction Hans Blix is not looking for but which he will encounter everywhere in Iraq.

A weapon apparently deployed by Saddam with great effect on the idiotic and gullible - Ivan

In Iraq children get diarrhoea from dirty drinking water because Iraq's public health infrastructure, which before 1990 compared well with western Europe, was largely destroyed by the bombing in 1991.

Iraq is in the Third World. Being in the 3rd World, means infrastructure is crap. As such, the fact remains that Saddam is running the place into the ground - which means he should be removed, and you, you fool, should be protesting Saddam, not George W. Bush - Ivan

They get treated in hospital, they get better, they go back to the dirty water, they come back into hospital.

Every time they come back they are a bit more malnourished, their immune systems a bit more depleted, on a downward spiral.

Carol de Rooy, head of UN children's body Unicef, estimated nearly one in four children in Iraq under the age of five is now malnourished.

This war that George Bush seems to want so much will produce many more dead and malnourished children in Iraq.

No, Saddam will be removed and all sanctions removed. Plus, he won't be able to rob the Iraqi people anymore so they can afford to eat and live better. Why are you so opposed to this idea, may I ask - Ivan

Medact, the global health campaign, estimates between 48,000 and 500,000 people, predominantly civilians, could die.

And the more horrific the statistic, the more you want to believe it. Are you related to Scott Ritter? - Ivan

And the UN estimates that the impact would be worse than the first Gulf attacks.

There are about 22 million people in Iraq, 9.6 million of whom are under the age of 16.

They will be most affected by war. It is children whom all wars affect the most.

As I have worked for the last few years campaigning against sanctions on Iraq and lately against the "war on terrorism", I have realised we have to oppose all war, not just some wars.

Osama bin Laden thanks you, as does every other evil dictator in the world who does not share your pacifist philosophy. Standing up to evil is necessary, otherwise you condone it - Ivan

When we talk about the war on Iraq - whether the weapons inspectors might find something, whether there will be another UN resolution or not - it all ultimately distracts from the truth that our addiction to weapons and militarism will always drive government policy to condemn children to suffer.

I'll wager you're unmarried, have no spouse, and thus have no idea about protecting them from terrorist attacks - Ivan

It is right to try to influence politicians while we are stuck with them, but it is easy to become too focused on the politicians and forget that every person who works in the military is making an individual choice to help the war machine.

At Northwood, Britain's military HQ where we will be gathering this weekend, the people who run the war machine spend every day planning wars, looking around the world to see what "use" Britain can put it's military to, to further Britain's economic and strategic interests.

We have to do what we can to disrupt the war machine and we have to drag Northwood out of the shadows and put it on the map.

I hope that people will keep coming back to Northwood once they know what an important part of the war machine it is.

Maybe if enough people do, then Britain's ability to ruin futures for children all over the world will be diminished.

I caught this statement on the post. "We have to drag Northwood out of the shadows and put it on the map". Worked for two years 1948-50 in Northwood High Street. My next "job" was National Service(conscription).

This "History of Mr Polly ",Edwardian Street, was visited by me, 25 years later. Buildings there- old pub the Clifton/Iron Bridge there. Multi-culture taken over almost everything. I do digress though.

1944 Summer, just two kids going to play scratch cricket, watching. A flying bomb hit Addison Way, Northwood. The laconic press statement said..... an "elderly woman died" - yeah, not much I suppose. Later I learned two women had died,from this guided missile.

A nation had gone to war, to try to stop more bombings like Warsaw,and Rotterdam,and belatedly Guernica. A nation may now have to go to war, to stop "bombings" like the WTC and countless other cowardly atrocities.

May the ghost of civilian dead haunt these flabby, misguided dupes.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "IRAQ SAID TO BE STASHING ARMS" by Rowan Scarborough (011703)

GOOGLE Search Term: "TIKRIT"

***An Informative Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com article by Jonathan Schanzer, THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: "ANSAR AL-ISLAM: IRAQ'S AL-QAEDA CONNECTION" (January 17, 2003)

***AFTENPOSTEN.no: "USA WANTS NORWAY TO WATCH KREKAR" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mullah Krekar has been, and likely remains, the leader of Ansar al-Islam, a fringe Islamic group in Iranian Kurdistan accused of having connections to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network. The New York Times reported the connection last week after interviews with Ansa al-Islam members, and after finding documents in Afghanistan mentioning direct links to al-Qaeda.") (January 17, 2003)

***FOX NEWS.com: "INSPECTORS FIND CHEMICAL WARHEADS IN IRAQ" (January 16, 2003)

***FOX NEWS.com: "INSPECTORS WHISK AWAY IRAQI SCIENTIST" (January 16, 2003)

An Interesting and Informative Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com - Topic: "UN INSPECTORS FIND 12 EMPTY CHEMICAL WARHEADS --- Fox News Alert" (January 16, 2003)

***ALBAWABA.com: "GROUP CONFIRMS ABU ABBAS VISITED CAIRO, EGYPT DENIES" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "Abu Abbas, also known as Mohammed Abbas, is the leader of the Palestine Liberation Front, which hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro in the eastern Mediterranean in 1985. A disabled elderly American, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed during the operation. The Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, said on Thursday that Abu Abbas arrived in Cairo on Monday night to participate in Palestinian talks on an end to attacks on civilians in Israel."..."An official of his Abu Abbas group said Friday he came to Egypt this week for talks with the government. "He did visit Cairo, but I can't say where he is now for his own safety," said Nazim el-Youssef of the Palestine Liberation Front in Lebanon. The group issued a statement earlier in the week saying a delegation led by Abu Abbas had arrived in Cairo at the invitation of Egyptian authorities for talks to "unite the Palestinian groups to enable them to face Israeli aggression."" (Albawaba.com)) (January 11, 2003)

stepping back in time...SPECIAL OPERATIONS.com: "ACHILLE LAURO HIJACKING, Mediterranean Sea, October 1985"

***TERRORISM FILES.org: "TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS: PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT (PLF)" (TERRORISM FILE SNIPPET: "Location/Area of Operation: PLO faction based in Tunisia until Achille Lauro attack. Now based in Iraq. External Aid: Receives support mainly from Iraq. Has received support from Libya in the past.")

***ALBAWABA.com: "THE IRAQI WOMAN BUSH WANTS TO LAY HIS HANDS ON" (ARTICLE NOTE: Dr. Rihab Tahat is known as "Dr. Germ.") (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In Dr. Germ's highly secret laboratories, Taha and her team of some 100 Iraqi scientists worked immensely to weaponize the most lethal viruses and bacteria known to man. According to United Nations estimates, Taha created 8400 liters of anthrax"..."grew 19,000 liters of botulinum"..."She also cultivated 2000 liters of aflatoxin"..."These experiments may have never come to light if it were not for the defection of General Hussein Kamal, son-in-law of Saddam Hussein and a weapons of mass destruction expert. In 1995, Kamal defected from Iraq to Jordan where he told the world about Dr. Germ, thus making him the first to expose Taha's work and the killer diseases that Iraq holds in reserve."..."The original UN weapons inspectors tried to find out where Iraq's biological weapons were and destroy them, but failed. Eventually, UN inspectors found out that Dr. Germ was the lover and wife of Lieutenant General Amer Rashid, the Iraqi official whose job was to work with the UN inspectors. It is now believed Rashid warned his wife of possible raids, thus giving her enough time to get rid of any evidence. Until recently, Rashid served as the oil minister in Saddam Hussein's government."(January 14, 2003)

***News.TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "CHEMICAL WAR THREAT BY IRAQ'S 'TALIBAN'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mullah Mohammad Hasan is the new leader of Ansar Al-Islam, a radical Taliban-style mini-state in Northern Iraq where ricin and other chemical agents have been been tested as potential weapons. He has vowed to use his arsenal to fight America and its allies if a war is launched against Saddam Hussein. Ansar has also given shelter to Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi - the al-Qaeda quartermaster responsible for planning the terrorist group's attacks - in its camps, according to Kurdish officials in the area. The group has told recent visitors to its enclave that it holds stocks of the deadly chemical agents ricin, cyanide gas and aflatoxin.") (January 12, 2003)

stepping back in time...CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: "TALIBAN-STYLE GROUP GROWS IN IRAQ" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "HALABJA, NORTHERN IRAQ - A radical Islamist group - with possible links to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein - is growing and threatening the stability of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq."..."Since, Ansar al-Islam has nearly doubled in size to 700, including Iraqis, Jordanians, Moroccans, Palestinians, and Afghans - a composition similar to the multinational Al Qaeda network. Villagers here claim it has ransacked and razed beauty salons, burned schools for girls, and murdered women in the streets for refusing to wear the burqa. It has seized a Taliban-style enclave of 4,000 civilians and several villages near the Iran border.") (March 15, 2002)

GOOGLE Search Term: "ANSAR-AL-ISLAM"

HAARETZ.com: "'ARMS FROM IRAQ CAUSED BLAST AT HEZBOLLAH BASE'" (010302)

***WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "IRAQ URGES ARABS TO FOLLOW NORTH KOREA" (010203)

***MuslimThai.com/TALIBANonline (VOICE OF THE TALIBAN): "IRAQI MUSLIMS DECLARE HOLY WAR ON U.S." (*Note: URL subject to change or expire.) (122602)

***ALBAWABA.com - The Middle East Gateway: "SADDAM SAYS IRAQ READY TO FIGHT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that Iraqis were ready to fight a holy war against the United States...") (122502)

IDF.il - Spokesperson's Unit: "IRAQ CONTINUES TO AWARD FUNDS TO FAMILIES OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS" (122502)

***U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE: "ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF OMISSIONS FROM THE IRAQI DECLARATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL" (121902)

HAARETZ DAILY.com: "REPORT: SADDAM PLANNED TO USE BIOLOGICAL WEAPON AGAINST ISRAEL" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The document says that Iraq sent three MiG-21 planes to bomb Israeli targets with regular bombs to check whether they were able to penetrate the Israeli air defense system. At the second stage, three more MiGs armed with conventional weaponry were to be sent to Israel as a diversion, together with a Sukhoi airplane armed with biological weapons. But the operation failed during the first stage, when the three MiGs were downed over the Persian Gulf a short time after takeoff.") (122302)

SEATTLE TIMES.com: "JUDGE SETS BAIL FOR MAN ACCUSED OF AIDING IRAQ" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A federal judge has set bond at $100,000 for an Iraqi American accused of illegally funneling millions in cash and goods into Iraq in violation of U.S. trade sanctions. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Weinberg yesterday said prosecutors had failed to show that Hussein Alshafei was a flight risk, or that his money-wiring business had helped finance "weaponry or war preparations in Iraq." The judge added that rumblings of war and "popular sentiment against Iraq" must not undermine the law.") (122502)

SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: "12 LINKED TO IRAQ MONEY-LAUNDERING PLAN" (121902)

***Quote.BLOOMBERG.com News: "UN ENLARGES IRAQ TEAM; AZIZ WARNS OF TERROR THREAT (Update 4)" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Any U.S. move against Iraq to rid the country of weapons will mean the "hatred against the United States will reach its peak," Aziz said on the U.S.'s "Fox News Sunday" program. It would prompt attacks against U.S. citizens at home and abroad, he said, without specifying who might carry out the strikes.")(121602)

WHITE HOUSE.gov: "SADDAM HUSSEIN'S IRAQ: A DECADE OF DEFIANCE AND DECEPTION"

IRAQ WATCH.org

GLOBAL SECURITY.org (includes Public Eye)

FREEREPUBLIC.com - Discussion Threads - Search Term: "IRAN AND IRAQ"

CNS NEWS.com: "ISRAEL QUIETLY 'CONCERNED' ABOUT RUSSIAN-IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEAL" by Julie Stahl (122702)

An Informative discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a commentary by Joseph Farah in WORLDNETDAILY.com: "OUR 'FRIENDS' IN PAKISTAN" (010803)

***INSIGHT On The News online: "SEARCHING FOR 'DIRTY BOMBS'" by Anthony L. Kimery (January 6, 2003)

***MEMRI.org Special Dispatch Series No.455 - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: "INTERVIEW WITH AFGHAN ISLAMIST LEADER ON JIHAD AGAINST U.S." (ARTICLE NOTE: The "Islamist Leader on Jihad Against U.S" is identified as Gulboddin Hekmatyar.) (January 6, 2003)

TALIBAN ONLINE: "TALIBAN CLAIMS TO HAVE CHEMICAL WEAPONS...Hekmatyar Joins Hands With Omar" -Taliban Online via UmmahNews) (January 5, 2003)

***www.JANG.com.pk - THE NEWS International: "TALIBAN POSSESS CHEMICAL WEAPONS: EX-LEADER" (010403)

***ISLAM-ONLINE.net: "MULLAH OMAR URGES JIHAD AGAINST U.S. WAR ON IRAQ" by Hasbanullah Mutawakel, IOL Correspondent (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Peshawar, December 18 (IslamOnline) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar exhorted Muslims on Tuesday, December 17, to prepare for Jihad against the United States if it unleashes a military offensive against Iraq. In a statement published in the Pakistani Mashraq newspaper, Mullah Omar stressed it was time for the Islamic nation to stand in the face of world atheism and to attack American interests worldwide.") (121802)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): Islamabad, Pakistan. "AFGHAN WARLORD TO AID AL-QAEDA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An Afghan rebel leader yesterday said that his forces have allied with Taliban and al Qaeda fugitives, and that a "holy war" would be stepped up to target international forces and peacekeepers. "We are together" with the fugitive fighters, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a Pashto-language message distributed in Pakistan by his followers.") (122602)

GOOGLE Search Term: "GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR"

GOOGLE Search Term: "GOLBUDDIN HEKMATYAR"

GOOGLE Search Term: "HEZB-E-ISLAMI"

NY POST.com: "IRAQ ADMITS IT'S ON THE BRINK OF CREATING NUKES" by Vincent Morris (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A top adviser to Saddam Hussein admitted yesterday that Iraq is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. "We have the complete documentation, from design to all the other things," Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi told reporters in Baghdad. "We haven't reached the final assembly of a bomb nor tested it."") (120902) *Note: Url has expired.

WorldNetDaily.com: "NEW EVIDENCE LINKS SADDAM, BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Unit 999 of Iraqi intelligence has helped train both Arafat's shock troops and bin Laden's Islamists for suicide operations utilizing weapons of mass destruction. According to Bodansky's book, some of these terrorists have already "succeeded in infiltrating several Arab countries. They are provided with instructions, secret codes and advanced weapons." According to Israeli sources, the Iraqis permitted the terrorist trainees to test chemical weapons in southern Kurdistan.") (120902)

DAILY STAR.com.lb - Lebanese News: "IRAQI DISSIDENT FOUND MURDERED IN SOUTH" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An Iraqi refugee was found dead Wednesday in an apartment belonging to an Iraqi opposition group in Tyre. Walid Ibrahim al-Mayahi, 33, was discovered with a rope around his neck. He appeared to have been strangled. Mayahi was staying in a two-room apartment that doubled as an office for supporters of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq Sadr, a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric who was murdered along with his two sons in the southern Iraqi city of Najjaf in 1999. Unconfirmed reports said that Mayahi had recently gained a visa to travel to the United States to take part in training with Iraqi opposition forces. But a US Embassy spokesperson said that there was "no record of granting a visa" to Mayahi.") (120502)

"BLOODY FRIDAY - CHEMICAL MASSACRE OF THE PEOPLE OF HALABJA BY THE IRAQI REGIME MARCH 1988" (ALERT: This BLOODY FRIDAY site should not be viewed by children.)

FREEREPUBLIC.com - Search Term for News Discussion Threads: "SADDAM"

FREE CONGRESS.org - THE FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION - Notable News: "ONE WHO DARES CALL IT 'TREASON'" -Commentary by Paul M. Weyrich (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "So how does Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) justify holding a reception for the Mujahedin-e Kalq? The U.S. State Department, since 1994, has listed this group as one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the world. The State Department says that this Marxist-Muslim group has killed many Americans and had blown up a number of U.S. facilities in Iran. This group participated in the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. This group had a falling out with the Ayatollah Khomeni, according to The Washington Times, so the group fled to Iraq and now is funded by Saddam Hussein. The group helped Hussein fight the Kurds in the North of Iraq when chemical weapons were used.") (112502)

GOOGLE Search Term: "MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ"

GOOGLE Search Term: "MUJAHEDIN-E KHALIQ"

GOOGLE Search Term: "MUJAHEDIN-E KALQ"

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding an opinion-commentary by GEORGE GALLOWAY in THE GUARDIAN (UK): "IN THE HANDS OF THE THREE WITCHES There Will Be Only One Winner of an Iraqi War - Osama Bin Laden" (112702)

TOWNHALL.com: "THE IRAQI INFILTRATION" -Column by Michelle Malkin (112002)

NY POST.com: "MUSTARD GAS FOUND IN IRAQ" (120502) Note: URL has expired.

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: "IRAQ NEWSWIRE No. 12" (120302)

ABC NEWS.go.com: "SMALLPOX IN IRAQ? CIA Investigates Allegations that Soviet Scientist Transferred Virus to Iraq" (120302)

SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: "'DR. GERM' BUILT IRAQ'S STOCKPILES OF DEADLY BIOWEAPONS" by Lisa Hoffman, Scripps Howard News Service (120302)

NEWS.com.au: "UN WARNED IRAQIS OF VISIT" by Ezzedine Said in Baghdad (December 2, 2002)

MEMRI.org - THE MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Alert No.4: "UNIDENTIFIED SENIOR IRAQI OFFICIAL: WE DID NOT HESITATE TO USE WMD IN THE PAST AND WILL NOT STAND IDLY BY THIS TIME EITHER" (112602)

Dubai GULF NEWS.com: "SMUGGLING THRIVES IN THE SHADOW OF SANCTIONS" by Bob Drogin - London (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "Hidden inside the trucks was a bonanza of banned military materiel - including night vision devices, global positioning systems, communications gear and other highly specialised electronic equipment from South Korea"..."In all, the engineer said, he helped sneak at least 25 loads of contraband cargo into Iraq for hefty commissions. Among them: 2,500 tyres for armoured personnel carriers from Ukraine, two trucks of high-tech laboratory equipment from Germany and mainframe South Korean computers inside empty refrigerator boxes. Saddam, anything he wants, he can get," said the Iraqi, who recently moved to Britain.") (112502)

BBC NEWS: "IRAQ OPENS BORDER WITH SAUDI" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Saudi goods imported by Iraq under the UN's oil for food programme have had to be transported via Jordan. The reopening of the Ar'ra crossing will mean they can be trucked straight across the border.") (103102)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding this article by Philip Sherwell ad David Wastell posted on www.OPINION.TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "SADDAM 'HIDING THE WEAPONS IN MOSQUES'" (111702)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): "IRAQ TAKES DELIVERY OF POWDER USED IN CHEMICAL ARMS" (ARTICLES SNIPPETS: "Iraqi scientists know how to make chemical weapons that can penetrate military protective clothing, and Iraq imported up to 25 metric tons last month of a powder that is a crucial ingredient to such "dusty" weapons. Iraq told the United Nations the powder was destined for a pharmaceutical company."..."The powder, sold under the brand name Aerosil...") (111802)

BBC NEWS: "IRAQIS 'INFILTRATED UK GERM LABS'" (111602)

TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "SADDAM PAYS GADDAFI $3 BILLION TO GIVE HIS FAMILY SAFE HAVEN IN LIBYA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Word of Saddam's deal with the Libyan leader has emerged from diplomatic sources in Tripoli following a visit to the Libyan capital on September 8 by General Ali Hasan al-Majid, a cousin and trusted member of Saddam's clan. General al-Majid is known by the Kurds of northern Iraq as "Chemical Ali" because he was in charge of the Iraqi forces which launched a chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. He was also initially the "Governor" of Kuwait after Iraq's invasion of the Gulf state in August 1990, and is now one of the Baath Party regional command leaders. He is believed to have travelled to Tripoli to deliver a personal missive from Saddam to the Libyan leader, confirming the arrangements for his family.") (111602)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "BAGHDAD INCREASES RANGE OF SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES" by Bill Gertz (111502)

FOX NEWS.com: "IRAQ STOCKPILING GAS ANTIDOTE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The fate of 31,600 chemical munitions, 550 mustard gas bombs and 4,000 tons of chemical precursors remain unknown, according to Congressional Research Services. In fact, the primary remaining chemical weapons questions center on the VX nerve agent, which atropine can be used to counter. By 1995, UNSCOM uncovered enough evidence to force Iraq to admit to producing about 4 tons of VX, but UNSCOM thought the country had imported enough material to actually produce 200 tons of VX, according to CRS.") (111202)

MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE: "IRAQ PREPARES MISSILE, AIRCRAFT NEAR SAUDI BORDER" (October, 2002)

WorldNetDaily.com: "NO LONGER AN ACCIDENT" -Commentary by Jack Cashill (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "A fourth point of interest is the behavior of President Bill Clinton. Although she served as an adviser to Clinton during his 1992 campaign, Mylroie finds his reaction to Iraqi-backed terrorism "inexplicable." In fact, throughout the book, Mylroie quietly condemns the seeming "policy disarray" that leads time and again to inaction. The administration, she notes, suffered from the inability to tell the truth about Iraq even to itself.") (111902)

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