8 September 2006---PM

I simply am amazed at the willingness of the opinion leadership and the newsmakers from around the planet to join together and happily join in a lie. The U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence has released its findings on pre-Iraq war intelligence and the impact on its alleged errors by anti-Hussein exile groups (which are today involved in the Iraqi government, particularly one Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress). In that report, they contained "findings", which were a recitation of what they understand to be facts which they believe is different from what the SSCI believed to be true in March 2003, the beginning of the Iraq war. The report also contains a small section called "conclusions", which was added at the end of the full report by members of the panel who are Democrat Party members, along with a few Republicans. Those "conclusions" have been publicized and spread all over the world, with the lead story saying that, "No link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein found by Senate panel...major Bush claim discredited." The Democrats have used the "conclusions", made by their own, to claim that President Bush should just hide in the White House in shame and make no more public arguments that Iraq is a major battlefield in the war against Islamist Jihadism, that a second fundamental reason for going to war is now taken away from him, along with the lack of WMD. The "revelations" prove Bush to be a fraud, deceiving the world to take the USA to war, and thereby make him and his closest advisors guilty of monstrous war crimes. The pathetically weak responses by Republican senators, saying in effect, that the findings contain "nothing new", that the conclusions by Democrats are "unwarranted", sound like the whining of whipped puppies. George Bush now, the word is, even more of an incompetent idiot and criminal and pathological liar than ever. We have the grand conclusions of the "independent" body of august United States Senators!

The problem is, just as on the case of WMD, none of it is true. The factual findings are in complete contradiction to the "conclusions", and demonstrate that, while Saddam Hussein may not have personally shaken their hands, his government was up to its eyeballs with Al Qaeda in particular and Islamist terrorists in general. I shall continue this thread next time. Sad, how we can't observe the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks without spending our time lying about our leaders, protecting the guilty and criminal, and attacking and destroying the good names of the innocent. We are totally setting ourselves up for really serious trouble, and we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.

Back tomorrow. Shalom.