Michael A. Hoffman II
Wall Street Journal Admits Iraq is not a Threat
Thu Sep 19 21:34:45 2002
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Wall Street Journal Admits Iraq is not a Threat

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To gauge the extent of delusion inherent in the ridiculous

"Iraq-is-a-deadly-threat-to-the United States notion" now playing in
Limbaugh-land, please turn to the September 19, 2002 issue of the
Wall Street Journal. In a front page article (continued on p. 10),
by three investigative reporters, buried within their economic
analysis, the authors make a startling admission in a single
sentence:

"On the military front, experts doubt that Mr. Hussein has the technological
might to cause much damage to his neighbors." ("In Oil Fallout From Iraq War,
Iran Could Gain, Saudis Lose," by Neil King Jr., John J. Fialka and Bhushan
Bahree, Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 19, 2002, pp.
A1 and A10).

Surely most Americans suspect that fact already, as columnist Thomas Friedman
conceded on the editorial page of the New York Times of Sept. 18. Friedman
questioned polls that allegedly "show strong support among Americans for
military action against Iraq." We are being stampeded into war, against the
people's wishes, by the Israeli Knesset's western branch (sometimes known as
the U.S. Congress) by the western oil consortia, and the corporate media.
But now and then, in dealing with something as absurd as fifth-rate Iraq
posing a threat to an America which can instantly vaporize it in a mushroom
cloud, the massive truth which the people know but the pundits dare not say,
leaks forth, and we have it here today in the Wall Street Journal. The experts
doubt Saddam can do much damage, even to his immediate neighbors in the
Middle East. How then is he any threat to America? Truth is the first
casualty of war.

--Michael A. Hoffman II - hoffman@hoffman-info.com