Weapons threat based on "fairytales"

THE federal Government had deliberately "skewed the truth" about the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program, former Office of National Assessments analyst Andrew Wilkie claimed yesterday.

Giving evidence before a parliamentary inquiry into the handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence, Mr Wilkie said the Government had created a picture of a mythical Iraq where "every factory was up to no good and weaponisation was continuing apace". The Government had taken the ambiguity out of the more qualified assessments prepared by intelligence agencies, including the peak assessment body ONA.

Mr Wilkie claimed a key problem for Australian agencies was their heavy reliance on allied intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, the threat being sometimes overestimated as a result of the "fairytales" coming out of the US...

Australia is looking into it:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7038000%255E421,00.html

The extent to which Downing Street sought to convince a doubting British public of the need to go to war in Iraq was exposed before the Hutton inquiry yesterday.

Hitherto unpublished official papers disclosed at the inquiry showed grave doubts at the highest level of government about its own case for supporting the invasion of Iraq.

Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, admitted a week before the publication of the Iraq weapons dossier that it did "nothing to demonstrate a threat, let alone an imminent threat from Saddam", the inquiry was told yesterday...

Britain is looking into it:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=435148
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3170593.stm

And as usual, America is doing diddly squat.

I saw "So Graham Norton" the other day on BBC America. He was filming some shows in the US, and said, gee, guess what, I took a flight over to the US, turned on the TV, and suddenly - we're winning in Iraq!!!

I am SO disgusted by our media.

What about that trailer park with test tubes in it? And what about that box of pencils found in one of Saddam's palaces? The pencils were just a cover for lead to be used for chemical WEAPONS!!!

inquires into the administration that actually initiated and drove this whole invasion and occupation?

If we are so free and value democracy, why isn't our government demanding this administration get it's collective ass in front of Congress and answer questions about their actions/motives regarding their lies for war, under oath?

Yo, people, I know this is dry stuff, and the thead is going to sink like a stone, but

think about passing these links along, God knows they are getting a near total blackout in the American media

the fact is Britain and Australia are hard at work uncovering Bush's lies

and America is laying down like Bush's faithful lapdog