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Die Kriegslüge nun nachgewiesen. The War Lies Now Documented.

Wie manipuliert eine Regierung eine Nation in einen unsinnigen Krieg?
How can a nation be manipulated into an unnecessary war?
False Pretenses.
Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. By Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith.
The Center for Public Integrity. January 2008.
Charles Lewis
and Mark Reading-Smith of the research center say their work has documented “at least 935 false statements” on hundreds of occasions, particularly that Iraq had unconventional weapons, links to Al Qaeda, or both. (NYT, 23.1.08).
An Online Scavenger Hunt on Prewar Claims: What Did You Find? By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. (NYT, 23.1.08).

MICHAEL CROWLEY on Ron Suskind's “The Way of the World”: "
The White House in­structed the C.I.A. to forge a letter, backdated to July 2001, stating that the 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta had trained in Iraq and, furthermore, that Iraq had received suspicious shipments (presumably of yellowcake) from Niger with Al Qaeda’s help. The letter was to be written and signed by Tahir Jalil Habbush (a former Iraqi intelligence chief) on Iraqi government station­ery and addressed to Hussein himself. This preposterously convenient summary of what a perfect case for war might look like almost resembled some wry gag from The Onion. But at the end of 2003 the letter did, in fact, turn up in a British newspaper, before seeping into the American media." (NYT, 9/12/08).

Tom Hayden (Ex-SDS): 

"Widerstand, bis Hoffnung keimt"
Tom Hayden
gehört in Amerika zu den Symbolfiguren des Jahres 1968 - Im STANDARD-
Interview vom 4.4.08 über den Irakkrieg, das demokratische Duell um die Präsidentschaft und die Generation YouTube.
Nimmt man die Umfragen, so gelangte die öffentliche Meinung im Falle des Irak schneller als im Falle Vietnams zum Schluss, dass der Krieg ein Fehler ist. Obwohl im Irak fünfzehnmal weniger Amerikaner starben als in Vietnam. Obwohl es heute, anders als damals, keine Wehrpflicht gibt. Diesmal rebellieren wir nicht als Außenseiter, sondern versuchen es innerhalb des Systems.