Powell's Pretext

Chiang Ching ChiangChing at alltel.net
Wed Feb 12 15:36:49 PST 2003


Powell's Pretext

"Much of what we know is akin to an impressionist painting. It's a compilation of several different strands of information that are then triangulated to draw a conclusion." Top U.S. government official, New York Times , January 25

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell stood in front of the United Nations, and the TV cameras of the world, to "make the U.S. case for war"--again.

It reminds us of the way Senator Trent Lott kept "apologizing" for his public racism, because no one believed him. On the global stage, U.S. officials keep having to "make the case" for this war because they have no believable argument.

They claim they are threatened by a small, battered third world country half a world away--a country that has been body-searched like a super-max prisoner. They claim Iraq might give weapons it doesn't have, to people who aren't named, for attacks that are not yet planned. They claim to "know" about huge stockpiles of weapons that no one can find.

And meanwhile, everyone knows that Iraq floats on a sea of oil--and everyone suspects that this is a big part of the unspoken real reasons why the U.S. government is so eager to take over.

Powell is considered the best "face" for the final pre-war arguments.

But on February 5, this mask of the "reasonable imperialist" dropped. General Powell is the guy who conquered the Persian Gulf once before for the U.S. and he was there at the UN to press for a new war to "finish the job" (as hawks say). rest of article is posted at : http://www.rwor.org/A/V24/1181-1190/1187/powellevidence.htm ------------------

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