They tell loud lies, then whisper apologies Posted: Sunday, September 21, 2003
They are called 'The Searchers'. But what are they looking for? Tony Blair's hopes of finding WMD lie with the Iraq Survey Group. But, report Raymond Whitaker and Glen Rangwala, they don't appear to have much to do and have even less to report
How Americans have fooled themselves about the war in Iraq
Iraq's occupiers suspected of losing touch with reality
An administration in disarray
Blair gets the cold shoulder at Berlin summit
They tell loud lies, then whisper apologies It's hard to believe that it was just a slip of the tongue rather than a calculated lie when Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz sullied the memory of those who died on 9/11 by exploiting their deaths for propaganda purposes. The brainwashing of Americans, two-thirds of whom believe Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks, is too effective a political ploy for the Bush regime to suddenly let the truth get in the way.
Iraq adopts sweeping economic reforms The American-backed administration in Iraq has announced sweeping economic reforms, including the sale of all state industries except for oil.
US Troops Fire On Journalists
Flashback Americans Draw a Veil of Secrecy as Casualties Grow A culture of secrecy has descended upon the occupation authorities in Iraq. They will give no tally of the Iraqi civilian lives lost each day. They will not comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their own Iraqi interpreters yesterday - he was shot dead in front of the Italian diplomat who was the official adviser to the new Iraqi Ministry of Culture - and they cannot explain how General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, the former Iraqi minister of defense and a potential war criminal, should now be described by one of the most senior US officers in Iraq as "a man of honor and integrity".
Two different figures for same incident Flashback Eight US Soldiers Die in Iraq Ambush Flashback Three US soldiers die in ambush near Tikrit
Market Blast Kills 3 in Indian Kashmir
As the going gets tough ... Bush goes to the UN
America needs a bigger army
Mendouh survived Saddam ... but not Uncle Sam
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