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Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:46:56 +0100

What Hussein said about having weapons (before he was captured) wasn’t important. It was more what he was doing: like putting on a show for our satellites as to what type truck went to what building; what came out of a particular plant covered by tarps over it; what type of facilities were being built or pretending to be built etc, etc; The communicates he allowed us to intercept, and what he was trying to buy or pretending to buy on the black market. The fact that it is so difficult to get spies into such a closed country to see what is under those tarps, or photograph documents etc, etc. Hussein knew what type of assumptions the U.S. would have to arrive at to err on the side of safety. Some might say if Hussein had lied so many times in the past why trust what he said about making us think he had the weapons. Obviously, after he was captured he had different incentives. The gig was up at that point!!! - Anon

Dan Rather Interview

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:09:00 +0100

I appreciate this article. I am wondering, however, why you did not reference the interview that Dan Rather did on 60 Minutes with Saddam Hussein before the US invasion. I distinctly remember watching that one-on-one interview where Hussein told him point blank that he had no WMDs. I have scoured the internet for a clip of this interview, aired sometime in 2003, but have had no luck. I know I didn't imagine it, and I do remember the story was slanted so to make the viewer assume Hussein was lying. But despite the slant, I remember thinking that Hussein was telling Rather the truth, there were no WMDs in Iraq, and he knew he wouldn't be believed. Was he just getting it on the record? What happened to this clip? Why isn't it available to writers like you doing articles like this? As these things unfold, it becomes clear that the backhanded justification for invading Iraq is the shining example of the mainstream media's continuing complicity in the propaganda necessary to justify this mess. They are making themselves obsolete as the agenda becomes obvious even to the most oblivious consumer. The curtain is falling on the illusions that have mesmerized the populace. Articles like this are our mechanism for regaining control of the truth. Keep up the good work. - lelabear

60 Minutes of Revisionism on the Iraq "War"

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Dan Rather Interview