updated Fri. March 1, 2024
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RealClearPolitics
April 27, 2018
In fact, Libby told investigators that Cheney asked him to counter the false claims circulating in the press that the Bush administration concocted stories about Saddam Hussein's WMD programs. Libby' job was to explain—as was the case—that the CIA had confidently conveyed to the Bush administration ...
Pravda
April 20, 2018
My second point was that the evidence for Weapons of Mass Destruction had to be unequivocal and transparent. And when they went ahead ignoring the advice, I told them that I had been right and that nobody would ever believe a single word they said, ever again. And before and since then, what have ...
The Conversation UK
April 19, 2018
As the US, Russia and China test each other's patience and strategic focus, speculation about the chances of a world war has hit a new high. But many of the people seriously engaged in this weighty discussion often get it wrong. When it comes to estimating military capability, the Western media is ...
Truth In Media (blog)
April 17, 2018
Our government and our media have been peddling lies to justify war, from WMDs in Iraq to humanitarian intervention in Libya. The latest? ... Remember when Colin Powell and others in the Bush Administration said there was no doubt that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
Press-Enterprise
April 10, 2018
Now it is up to us and we are doing all we can: arranging walkouts, signing petitions and calls to action, calling our senators, using social media to create ... However, the only real change will come when political leaders vote to do something about the easily accessible weapons of mass destruction that are ...
Consortium News
March 31, 2018
As with past high-profile western-led WMD allegations against governments in Syria and Iraq (the US and UK are patently unconcerned with multiple allegations of 'rebel' terrorists in Syria caught using chemical weapons), an identical progression of events appears to be unfolding following the alleged ...
The Atlantic
March 29, 2018
He has spent his entire adult life in the interlocking world of hawkish think tanks, Washington law firms, Republican politics, and the right-wing media. .... possessed weapons of mass destruction, Bolton declared five months after America's invasion that the failure to find WMD was of no consequence. “Some ...
The Interpreter
March 27, 2018
Moreover, what is so wrong with establishing proof before the West escalates a very dangerous international situation? ... this month's fifteenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, which was based on Western intelligence that purportedly showed Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Channel 4 News
March 26, 2018
When a former Russian spy and his daughter were found slumped on a park bench in Salisbury, it wasn't long before investigators started looking at the Kremlin with suspicion. The pair were identified as Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. The British government said they had been poisoned with a ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
March 20, 2018
As Media Matters has documented, the Washington Post editorial page -- headed by Hiatt since 1999 -- repeatedly echoed the Bush administration's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. A February 6, 2003, editorial began, "After Secretary Of State Colin L. Powell's presentation to the United ...
The Independent
March 14, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn has cast doubt on evidence that led the Government to blame Russia for the Salisbury attack, pointing instead to the “WMD” saga before the Iraq War as reason ... "However, also, there's a history in relation to weapons of mass destruction and intelligence which is problematic to put it mildly.
Vox
March 14, 2018
He was credibly accused of manipulating US intelligence on weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War and of abusive treatment of his subordinates. He once ... But he got himself one of the top jobs in the country because of his savvy work in the world of conservative media and advocacy groups.
The Hill
March 2, 2018
On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush justified invading Iraq by invoking UN resolutions purportedly authorizing the U.S. “to use force in ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction.” A year later, Bush performed a skit at the Radio and Television Correspondents annual dinner featuring slides ...
AlterNet
December 31, 1999
The war itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of mass destruction. .... The WMD program is not shut down. It is up ... New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller says one of his biggest mistakes as editor was not addressing the paper's misleading pre-Iraq War coverage sooner, ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
For more than three decades Western politicians and the press have been claiming that Iran is a nuclear threat. ... weapons but nuclear weapons, to have programmes to prepare the capability at least to retaliate, in order to try to deter at the very least the attacks of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq.
