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Monday, February 02, 2004

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski states the incredibly obvious (except, duh, I missed it)...
on NPR ATC, today.
Read this: when you think about it, it is a very very powerful indictment of Bush.

He was asked about President Bush's statement that the whole world was wrong about Iraq, not just us. Brzezinski says, well, if it weren't so serious a question it would be a joke: does anyone think that Argentina, South Korea, Finland, Portugal, etc had their own independent intelligence on Iraq?
The whole world thought Iraq had weapons because WE told them!
England? They had political interests: Blair and Bush are "born again", certain so did Russia and Israel. France? Yeah, they too had an agenda. But thats it: that's the "whole inteligence community"!
Up until now, we, the United States, were a reliable, honest source, and they believed us. (We're the guys that brokered peace in Ireland!!) Not any more.
It is the president who lied. Absolutely.
A question: IF, as a simple matter of fact, the president lied, would he be guilty of war crimes? If he lead his country into war on false pretenses? I'm sure he had the best of intensions, but of course, everyone who invades has the best of intensions: that's a tautology.

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