Leave it to the AUsies to find the Truth

NEWS.com.au | Journo claims proof of WMD lies (September 23, 2003)

A television report by Pilger aired on British screens overnight said US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice confirmed in early 2001 that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had been disarmed and was no threat.

But after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 that year, Pilger claimed Rice said the US “must move to take advantage of these new opportunities” to attack Iraq and claim control of its oil.

Pilger uncovered video footage of Powell in Cairo on February 24, 2001 saying, “He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.”

Two months later, Rice reportedly said, “We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.”

Powell boasted this was because America’s policy of containment and its sanctions had effectively disarmed Saddam.

There’s more to it than this — Rummy and the Militans in DC wanted to use 9-11 to settle all accounts - attacking Iraq immediately and not going after the source of the terrorism, Osama Bin Laden.

Nice guys, those Bush Administration lackey’s — indebt your children to no end and sell fools around the country on the idea that we’re doing a good thing after we HAD been doing it all along, and a lot cheaper, since the gulf war — disarming and containing Saddam Hussein.