{"id":1074,"date":"2004-02-02T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/its-all-a-web-of-lies\/"},"modified":"2004-02-02T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2004-02-02T20:06:27","slug":"its-all-a-web-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/its-all-a-web-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s all a web of lies.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNN.com – Transcript of Powell’s U.N. presentation – Feb. 5, 2003<\/a> (all 10 pages are online)<\/p>\n

Iraqi denials of supporting terrorism take the place alongside the other Iraqi denials of weapons of mass destruction. It is all a web of lies.<\/b> …<\/p>\n

The United States will not and cannot run that risk to the American people. Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months<\/i> or years is not an option, not in a post-September 11th world. …<\/p>\n

Today Iraq still poses a threat and Iraq still remains in material breach. <\/p>\n

Tallahassee Democrat | 02\/02\/2004 | Miscalculation or outright lie?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bush administration was left with a single rationale: Iraq’s imminent threat to America.
\nThus came Powell’s Feb. 5 multimedia extravaganza before the Security Council. You may remember it.<\/p>\n

“Look at this (satellite image). This one is about a weapons munition facility, a facility that holds ammunition at a place called Taji. This is one of about 65 such facilities in Iraq. We know that this one housed chemical munitions….<\/p>\n

“Here, you see 15 munitions bunkers in yellow and red outlines. The four that are in the red squares represent active chemical munitions bunkers.”<\/p>\n

Again:<\/p>\n

“At this biological-related facility, on Nov. 25, just two days before inspections resumed, this truck caravan appeared, something we almost never see at this facility, and we monitor it carefully and regularly. … Five large cargo trucks appeared along with the truck-mounted crane to move missiles. We saw this kind of house-cleaning close to 30 times.”<\/p>\n

Oh, and enough anthrax (one spoonful of which was enough to shut down the U.S. Senate in the fall of 2001) to “fill tens upon tens of thousands of teaspoons.”<\/p>\n

And this: “My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.<\/b>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN.com – Transcript of Powell’s U.N. presentation – Feb. 5, 2003 (all 10 pages are online) Iraqi denials of supporting terrorism take the place alongside the other Iraqi denials of weapons of mass destruction. It is all a web of lies. … The United States will not and cannot run that risk to the American … Continue reading ‘It’s all a web of lies.’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}