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Wilson adds ammo to hit war credibility gap
Wed Oct 15 18:05:39 2003
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Wilson adds ammo to hit war credibility gap

By Paul Bedard

10/15/03: (US News) Just as former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's story that Bushies blew his CIA wife's cover to get back at his criticism of the war in Iraq was getting old, he has stumbled on new ammo to hit the administration's credibility. Wilson tells us he plans to circulate the text of a briefing by analyst Sam Gardiner that suggests the White House and Pentagon made up or distorted over 50 war stories. You know some tall tales, like the Pvt. Jessica Lynch story. But there's more, says Gardiner, a war gamer who has taught at the National War College. Like how defense officials said the first Iraqi unit marines encountered, the 51st Mechanized Infantry Division, had surrendered four days before it actually did. And he says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers gave bad or deliberately incomplete info on several topics. Sure, propaganda has always been used in war to deceive and demoralize the enemy. But these guys went way overboard, Gardiner says. "Never before have so many stories been created to sell a war," he insists. "And they probably didn't need it."
Read: Pentagon war story credibility briefing:
Pages (PDF) 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-56
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4981.htm

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BUSH blames Arafat for convoy

United States President George W Bush has blamed Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat for a bomb attack that killed three and seriously wounded another
http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/weekly/newsnat-16oct2003-4.htm

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Gaza bomb attack: strategy shift?

"If this [attack] was done by Palestinians it would be a reply to the stubbornness of this administration and especially this last veto," says Palestinian political analyst Hani Masri
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1016/p01s01-wome.html

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"Can America 'Spin' Away Anti-U.S. Hatred in Islamic Countries?", by Ivan Eland:
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031014Eland.html

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Three Americans killed in Gaza blast:

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7017822.htm

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Diplomats: Americans Ordered to Leave Gaza
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031015_763.html

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Two killed in assassination attempt on Mubarak's son:

Two officers were killed and a driver was injured in a botched assassination attempt on the life of the son of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4978.htm

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Ex-Aide: Powell Misled Americans:

Greg Thielmann “…I think my conclusion [about Powell’s speech] now is that it’s probably one of the low points in his long distinguished service to the nation,” says Thielmann.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4980.htm

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Wilson adds ammo to hit war credibility gap:

Ambassador Joseph Wilson's tells us he plans to circulate the text of a briefing by analyst Sam Gardiner that suggests the White House and Pentagon made up or distorted over 50 war stories. "Never before have so many stories been created to sell a war," he insists. But there's more...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4981.htm

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Iraq War Swells Al Qaeda's Ranks, Report Says:

The 2003-2004 edition of the British-based think-tank's annual bible for defense analysts, said Washington's assertions after the Iraq conflict that it had turned the corner in the war on terror were "over-confident."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4979.htm

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Rumsfeld's $9 Billion Slush Fund:

For all the debate over President Bush's $87 billion supplemental request, no one seems to have noticed that the sum includes a slush fund of at least $9.3 billion, which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld can spend pretty much as he pleases.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4982.htm

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'Neo-con or just plain ol' imperialism unleashed?'

What is a neo-con and what are the objectives of the so-called neo-conservative agenda?
http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0113.html

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On Furlough, Soldier Savors Every Moment:

"In the beginning I was into this; we all were," he said. But now, he feels the war is a waste. "We haven't found anything, no weapons of mass destruction, no Saddam, no nothing. And the people there hate us."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4983.htm

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War's Bloody Fallout: Hundreds suffer horrible wounds
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/126008p-112902c.html

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States of War :

In America, the armed forces, whether they want it or not, are being dragged into the heart of political life. A mature democracy is in danger of turning itself into a military state.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1014-09.htm

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Firms Get Ready for Business in Iraq:

About 100 private companies, mainly from Britain and the US, gathered in London yesterday to discuss investment opportunities in post-Saddam Iraq.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1062567,00.html

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All the President's votes?:

A quiet revolution is taking place in US politics. By the time it's over, the integrity of elections will be in the unchallenged, unscrutinised control of a few large - and pro-Republican - corporations. Can democracy in America survive?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4984.htm
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Sumerian Artifacts - 100 "New" images

I have just uploaded the latest set of Sumerian Artifacts that I received
from the Louvre museum in Paris. Many of the Tablets show the daily events
of the people, as well as their interaction with their living gods, which
they called the Anunnaki. Some of these tablets acutely show depictions of
the outer planets such as Saturn, absolutely stunning. See the link below.

http://www.ufo411.com/images/louvre/tablets/

Jason Martell -- jason@xfacts.com
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