The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest
 

Vol: 33 Issue: 27 - Sunday, June 27, 2004

Fact or Fiction?
by Jack Kinsella

Being temporarily internet challenged until we can move into our house,
I've had little material to work from other than the talking heads on TV.

Good heavens!   (And more Americans get their news from ABC than any other
source.)

I listened to one hour's worth with a notepad at my side.  I just jotted
down the allegations and compared them to just a few of the known,
indisputable, provable facts.

Allegation:  There is no evidence of pre-9/11 collaboration between Saddam
Hussein's government and Osama bin-Laden.

Fact:  New documents signed by Uday Hussein prove that there was a direct,
collaborative effort to conduct joint terrorist attacks between Iraq and
bin-Laden's 'group' that were, in the words of the Iraqi intelligence
document, "initiated by our (Iraq's) side."

Allegation:  The White House 'ginned' up evidence to support a case for
war.

Fact: There is clear evidence that until America actually got boots on the
ground, that EVERYBODY, from the French to the conveniently amnesiac Al
Gore, ALSO expected to find WMD.

Allegation:  Saddam did NOT have weapons of mass destruction because he
destroyed them all during the weapons inspection's regime.

Fact:  In order to use weapons, one must first HAVE them.

Fact: Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction on numerous
occasions in the past.

Fact:  There exists the possibility that those weapons may yet turn up
either buried in Iraq, or transferred to neighboring Syria or Lebanon.  At
best, all we know now is that we can't find them.

Allegation:  The Bush administration did not have Congressional
authorization for invading Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Fact:  Congress authorized the White House in September 2001, to make war
on any country that collaborated with al-Qaeda.

Allegation:  The Bush administration used the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to
remove Saddam at the expense of the war against al-Qaeda.

Fact: America made war on Afghanistan in October, 2001.  Documents found
there linked al-Qaeda and Taliban to Saddam Hussein.

Fact: America did not go to war against Saddam Hussein until 2003, and
after those linkages discovered in Afghanistan had been investigated.

Allegation:  The United States acted unilaterally in invading Saddam's
Iraq.

Fact: The United States headed a larger coalition of nations when we went
into Iraq in 2003 than his father put together in 1991.

Allegation:  The United States ignored the United Nations, and in so
doing, defied world opinion.

Fact: The Oil-for-Food investigation has already established that UN
officials, French officials, German officials and Russian officials were
being paid off by Saddam Hussein.

Allegation:  The United States was only interested in stealing control of
Iraq's rich oil fields.

Fact: The first thing the United States restored to Iraqi sovereign
control was Iraq's oil industry.

Is there an alternate universe?  If not, somebody is lying.  Check the
facts. Maybe I'm the liar.  Or confused?  Or uniformed? You tell me.

Things that are different are not the same.