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Blix: WMD 'spin' sent allied forces into Iraq
ANDREW DENHOLM
HANS Blix, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq, last night
launched a thinly-veiled attack on spin at the heart of the government.
Speaking at Edinburgh University, Dr Blix criticised both Britain and the
United States for launching a war with "no justification" against Iraq.
He said he appreciated that governments had to present policies to the
public and take decisions without 100 per cent certainty.
But he added: "I think we want our governments to keep some distance from
the ways of the advertising world. We would like to be told about the real
world, not to be shown a virtual one."
This appeared to be a clear reference to the way Tony Blair, the Prime
Minister, used evidence on the possible existence of weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq to justify war, weapons which Dr Blix claimed in his
lecture to 1,000 students at Edinburgh University last night, never actually
existed
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"We are going to fight them and impose our will
on them and we will capture or, if necessary, kill
them until we have imposed law and order upon
this country,"
-- US Viceroy Paul Bremer,
how U$A is going to win 'hearts and minds'
of the subjugated people of Iraq
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blix is al-qaeda, much like france and Canada (but not russia)
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hayden_flare wrote:
blix is al-qaeda, much like france and Canada (but not russia)
And what of nuclear Pakistan?
PS: Your tinfoil hat is on backwards ... no protection that way.
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"Naturally, the common people don't want war;
neither in Russia nor in England nor in America,
nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and
it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way
in any country."
- Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall
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BOEDICIA wrote:
Subject: => Blix: "No Justification" for Iraq Invasion - Bu$h /
Blair War Criminals !! <=
From: "- Vox Populi " vox@popu.li
Date: 2/25/04 11:21 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: <8ah%b.86$mA3.93416@news.uswest.net>
Blix: WMD 'spin' sent allied forces into Iraq
ANDREW DENHOLM
HANS Blix, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq, last
night launched a thinly-veiled attack on spin at the heart of the
government.
Speaking at Edinburgh University, Dr Blix criticised both Britain
and the United States for launching a war with "no justification"
against Iraq.
He said he appreciated that governments had to present policies to
the public and take decisions without 100 per cent certainty.
But he added: "I think we want our governments to keep some distance
from the ways of the advertising world. We would like to be told
about the real world, not to be shown a virtual one."
This appeared to be a clear reference to the way Tony Blair, the
Prime Minister, used evidence on the possible existence of weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq to justify war, weapons which Dr Blix
claimed in his lecture to 1,000 students at Edinburgh University
last night, never actually existed
or, if necessary, kill them until we have imposed law and order upon
this country,"
Jew isn't he? BTW There is no such thing as a "Viceroy" in U.S.
politics. The term means "repesenting the King".
King George W Bu$h ... appointed, not elected.
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Nov. 2, 2000, SEATTLE --
"If you don't stand for anything, you don't standfor anything!"
Gov. George W. Bush said to a packed rally at Bellevue Community College on
Tuesday night.
--Thanks, Michael.
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"They said this issue wouldn't resignate with the People. They've been proved
wrong, it does resignate." ("resonate"?!)
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"I believe a military of high morale is conducive to keeping the peace..."
not the worst but...
"...when we find a senior who has to choose between food and medicine-that's not
our vision of America." Am I missing something? Aren't the two parts of this
statement disconnected?
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"A surplus means there'll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called
a surplus."
-- Kalamazoo, MI 10/27/2000 - Jack
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If we are going to save a generation of young people, our children must know
they will face bad consequences for criminal behavior. Sadly, too many youths
are not getting that message. Our juvenile justice system must say to our
children: We love you, but we are going to hold you accountable for your
actions. --Bush campaign literature.
(Mr. Dubya: should you be held accountable for your youthful indiscretions when
you were a 30 year old "child"?!)
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"I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk
about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant
what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any
mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush
did 30 years ago is cool to try."
--Gov. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had
used "drugs, marijuana, cocaine"
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"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully
ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense
system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at
the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to
the level commiserate with keeping the peace."
-Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000
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"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take
dream."
-LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
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"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care,
we're going to have gag orders."
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"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to
know it."
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"It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term."
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"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a
gun."
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"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80
percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent
will get it if I'm the president."
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"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all
about."
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"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for,
then I'm for it."
-St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
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"Our priorities is our faith."
-Greensboro, N.C.,
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