Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong by Harry Browne

Harry Browne writes:

"You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons – past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq's weapons programs...

"Although the report was prepared for the United Nations, U.S. officials intercepted the report, edited out 8,000 pages (over two thirds) of it, and delivered its Reader's Digest version of the report to the UN...

"... the missing parts covered the Iraqis' acquisition of chemical and biological weapons from the U.S., the delivery of non-fissionable materials for a nuclear bomb by the U.S. to the Iraqis, and the training of Iraqi nuclear scientists at U.S. nuclear facilities in Los Alamos, Sandia, and Berkeley...

"UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said the conclusions stated in the report were basically true – that Iraq no longer had dangerous weapons...

"Colin Powell dismissed the report, calling it a 'catalogue of recycled information and flagrant omissions.' Of course, as we now know, the information was recycled because it happened to be true, and the omissions were flagrant because U.S. officials had done the omitting...

"Now here we are, over two years later. What have we learned?

"The hunt for Weapons of Mass Destruction has turned up exactly nothing, and so the hunt was been called off.

"Everything Hussein said about the weapons has turned out to be true.

"Everything George Bush said about Iraq's weapons has turned out to be false...

"In other words, the Butcher of Baghdad was correct; the President of the United States of America was wrong. The Butcher of Baghdad will be put on trial for 'war crimes.' The President of the United States of America was reelected to 'lead' the country for four more years."

Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong by Harry Browne