AS WE SPEAK!

The attached video, courtesy of Airman Brian Kolfage is a stark reminder of how much the main stream media distorts reality.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=622410927821028&fref=nf

The conventional wisdom is that George W. Bush lied to congress about the WMD in Iraq. The conventional wisdom is that there was no relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.  The conventional wisdom is that George W. Bush made a huge mistake by invading Iraq.  The conventional wisdom is based on repeated lies and distortions by the main stream media.  The truth is there for anyone willing to see.  This is well documented, but I suspect most people know none of this.

Bill Clinton is the one who claimed that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of WMD.  Watch the video of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.  Then explain to me how Bush managed to trick them into doing this?  Nonsense.

The truth is that every major official in the Clinton Administration and every top Democrat in congress believed that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of WMD. So did the Bush administration and top Republicans in congress.  That is because the U.S. intelligence community strongly believed that to be true.  There were only a handful of people who expressed doubt, but none of them had any credible evidence to support their opinion.

It gets worse.  The Clinton administration had reason to believe that Iraq was providing nerve gas to al Qaeda.  The following incident has been ignored or downplayed by the main stream media.  Yet, this seems really significant.  Most people are shocked to learn that there was at least some evidence that Saddam Hussein was helping al Qaeda get nerve gas. Here is what the main stream media, and unfortunately the Bush administration, never told you.

Bill Clinton attacked a factory owned by Osama bin Laden in the Sudan because the CIA found verex the precursor to Sarin gas on the site.  The intelligence said that this came from Iraq.  Later a site inspection failed to verify the presence of verex.  That is why Republicans joked about Clinton bombing an aspirin factory.  If only that were true.  However, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.   This incident is well documented.  The following excerpt is from page 116 of the 9-11 Commission Report:

Ever since March 1995, American officials had had in the backs of their minds Aum Shinrikyo’s release of sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway.  President Clinton himself had expressed great concern about chemical and biological terrorism in the United states.  Bin Ladin had reportedly been heard to speak of wanting a “Hiroshima” and at least 10,000 casualties.  The CIA reported that a soil sample from the vicinity of the al Shifa plant had tested positive for EMPTA, a precursor chemica for VX, a nerve gas whose lone use was for mass killing.  Two days before the embassy bombings, Clarke’s staff wrote that Bin Ladin has invested in and almost certainly has access to VX produced at a plane in the Sudan.

Much public commentary turned immediately to scalding criticism that the action was too aggressive.  The Sudanese denied that al Shifa produced nerve gas, and they allowed journalists to visit what was left of a seemingly harmless factory.  President Clinton, Vice President Gor, Berger, Tenet and Clarke insisted to us that there judgment was right, point to the soil sample evidence.  No independent evience has emerged to corroborate the CIA’s assessment.

A contemporary CNN report from 1998 confirms not only the suspicion that this was a chemical plant, but that there was a direct connection between Osama bin Laden and Iraq:

The U.S. knew bin Laden had been pursuing the development of chemical weapons “within his organization and in cooperation with Sudan’s National Islamic Front,” the official said. Bin Laden had worked with the Sudanese in the 1990s to test “various poisonous substances and to improve techniques for using and producing them,” the official said.

Bin Laden “has provided significant funding for Sudan to build its military-industrial complex,” the official said. The National Islamic Front’s leader Hassan al-Turabi has said bin Laden’s organization would “furnish weapons and munitions for use against enemies of Islam.”

Read the following and ask yourself if there is any evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden:

The U.S. also believes Iraq has been a “foreign benefactor” of Sudan’s chemical weapons efforts.

Iraq admitted to UNSCOM that it planned to produce VX for its CW program using the EMPTA process,” the official said. “And prior to the Sudanese soil sample, Iraq was the only country we knew of to have pursued this production process.”

Additionally, Shifa officials were in contact with Iraq about its VX program, the official said. Shifa had signed an agreement to provide veterinary drugs to Iraq as part of the oil-for-food program, but according to the United Nations, the contracted material was never delivered.

The main stream media continues to report that there was no relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.  They shout down anyone who dares question that conventional wisdom.  They ridicule Bush and Cheney for even hinting at a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. The facts, obviously, tell a very different story. It was Bill Clinton who determined that such a relationship existed long before Bush became President.  It was Bill Clinton who indicted Osama bin Laden for conspiring with Iraq to conduct terrorist attacks.  The following excerpt is from that indictment:

https://www.fas.org/irp/news/1998/11/indict1.pdf

In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular

projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda

would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq

We’ve been lied to by the main stream media over and over and over again. I will never understand why the Bush administration didn’t fight back.  I also don’t understand why Republicans did not rally around their President.  I am astonished that so many people in the main stream media ignored the obvious and reported the ridiculous.

Did they really think that Bush lied to trick us into an unnecessary war?  If I thought Bush did that I would lead the impeachment parade myself.  There was never any evidence of this.  Yet liberals wanted to believe that Bush was capable of this, so they pretended that this was true.  If there was a shred of evidence supporting this theory Democrats would have rushed to impeach Bush.  They were bitterly angry at the Clinton Impeachment and they wanted revenge.   Sadly these outrageous lies have been repeated so many times that far too many people believe them to be true.  However, repeating a lie does not make it the truth. It is terrible that the media covered up the serial lying by Brian Williams, but it is far worse that the media has been lying about the Iraq war since day one.

Ask yourself a simple question.  Imagine you are President Bush.  Imagine watching the horror of 9-11.  Wouldn’t it be logical to worry about al Qaeda getting possession of a WMD?  You know that Osama bin Laden wants another “Hiroshima” with at least 10,000 deaths.  You have read the report about the al Shifa factory.  You have seen the intelligence suggesting that Saddam Hussein is ready, willing and able to provide nerve gas to terrorists.  What would you do?  Would you just ignore this and hope the CIA was wrong?

This is not speculation.  This is well documented.  No one disputes any of the above. They just ignore it and keep repeating the same lies.  Are they too stupid to recognize the truth or are they just too biased.  Ultimately, does it matter?  The important thing to understand is that the main stream media has lied about this over and over again.

I strongly believe that if most people knew about al Shifa and they knew that there was evidence that Saddam Hussein was providing Sarin nerve gas to al Qaeda their perspective on the Iraq war would change significantly. Isn’t it about time someone reported the cold hard truth?  Is that too much to ask?

TDM