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IRAQ: HOW WE WERE LIED INTO WAR
by Eric Margolis
March 23, 2019

Sixteen years ago, the US and Britain committed a crime of historic proportion, the invasion and destruction of Iraq. It was as egregious an aggression as Nazi Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland.

Large numbers of Iraqi civilians died from 2003-2007. Iraq’s water and sewage systems were bombed, causing widespread cholera. The UN estimated 500,000 Iraqi children alone died as a result. Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, said it was ‘a price worth paying.’

But not so much for the 4,424 US soldiers killed in Iraq, or the 31,952 wounded, many with devastating brain and neurological injuries. Nor for US taxpayers who forked out over $1 trillion for this botched war and are still paying the bill – which was hidden in the national debt.

In 2003, Iraq was the most advanced Arab nation in social welfare health, education, military power, and industrial development. But it was run by a megalomaniac, Saddam Hussein, who had been helped into power and sustained in his long war against Iran, by the United States, Britain and their Arab satraps.

When Saddam grew too big for his britches, Washington lured him into invading Kuwait, another American-British oil satrapy. A hue and cry went out from Washington and London that Iraq had secret nuclear weapons that threatened the entire globe. War, thundered US-British propaganda, was urgent and necessary.

As I knew from covering Iraq for many years, it had no nuclear weapons and no medium or long-ranged delivery systems. What it did have was a chemical/biological laboratory at Salman Pak that was staffed with British technicians producing lethal toxins for use against Iran. I discovered this secret operation and reported it. Meanwhile, the dim-witted Iraqis were threatening to hang me as an Israeli spy.

I watched with disgust and dismay as the US and Britain launched massive broadsides of lies against Iraq and those few, like myself, who insisted Baghdad had no nuclear weapons.

Almost the entire US and British media were compelled to act as mouthpieces for the George Bush/Tony Blair war against Iraq, trumpeting egregious lies designed to whip up war fever. Our media, supposedly the tribune of democracy, became lie factories, putting even the old Soviet media to shame.

The New York Times led the charge, along with the three main TV networks. I was in Iraq with its star correspondent, Judith Miller, who became a key agent of the pro-war campaign. So too the Murdoch press in Britain and Fox News. When the BBC tried to question the torrent of lies about Iraq, it was crushed by Tony Blair. A leading British nuclear expert who questioned the nuclear lies was murdered. Iraq was polluted by US depleted uranium shells.

Journalists like me were intimidated or marginalized. I was dropped by a leading US newspaper, a major Canadian TV chain, and by CNN for whom I had been a regular commentator. I was told the Bush White House had given orders, ‘get rid of Margolis.’ My sin: insisting Iraq had no nuclear weapons and was not threatening the US. Things became so absurd that the story went out that Saddam had ‘drones of death’ that were poised to attack America.

Of the US media, only the McClatchy chain and Christian Science Monitor reported the war honestly. Nearly all the rest of America’s TV talking heads brayed for war. Most are still there today, demanding war against Iran.

Who was behind the war? A combination of big oil, which wanted Iraq’s vast reserves, and the Israel lobby which wanted to see Iraq destroyed by US power. The Pentagon was taken over by pro-war neoconservatives: Wolfowitz, Feith, Rumsfeld. George Bush, an ignorant fool, was putty in the hands of VP Dick Cheney, a pro-war megalomaniac. The CIA played along. Even the respected former general, Colin Powell, made a fool of himself before the UN and the world by claiming Iraq had hidden weapons. It had chemical weapons, all right, but we had the receipts to show they came from the US and Britain.

No one in the US or Britain ever faced trial for war-mongering and killing vast numbers of people. The lying media escaped well-deserved censure. As for the lying politicians who brought on this disaster, they blamed poor intelligence and bad luck. Those few who opposed the war of aggression remain sidelined or silenced.

Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2019
 

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This is not a surprise. As we all now know, even the UN that was conducting an investigation, did not find any weapons of mass destruction. No doubt that this war will go down in History as the biggest fake evidence to have conducted it. This war has created the biggest mess in the Middle East, that has since resulted in terrorism that has costed thousands more lives around the world.
 

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IRAQ: HOW WE WERE LIED INTO WAR
by Eric Margolis
March 23, 2019

Sixteen years ago, the US and Britain committed a crime of historic proportion, the invasion and destruction of Iraq. It was as egregious an aggression as Nazi Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland.

Large numbers of Iraqi civilians died from 2003-2007. Iraq’s water and sewage systems were bombed, causing widespread cholera. The UN estimated 500,000 Iraqi children alone died as a result. Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, said it was ‘a price worth paying.’

But not so much for the 4,424 US soldiers killed in Iraq, or the 31,952 wounded, many with devastating brain and neurological injuries. Nor for US taxpayers who forked out over $1 trillion for this botched war and are still paying the bill – which was hidden in the national debt.

In 2003, Iraq was the most advanced Arab nation in social welfare health, education, military power, and industrial development. But it was run by a megalomaniac, Saddam Hussein, who had been helped into power and sustained in his long war against Iran, by the United States, Britain and their Arab satraps.

When Saddam grew too big for his britches, Washington lured him into invading Kuwait, another American-British oil satrapy. A hue and cry went out from Washington and London that Iraq had secret nuclear weapons that threatened the entire globe. War, thundered US-British propaganda, was urgent and necessary.

As I knew from covering Iraq for many years, it had no nuclear weapons and no medium or long-ranged delivery systems. What it did have was a chemical/biological laboratory at Salman Pak that was staffed with British technicians producing lethal toxins for use against Iran. I discovered this secret operation and reported it. Meanwhile, the dim-witted Iraqis were threatening to hang me as an Israeli spy.

I watched with disgust and dismay as the US and Britain launched massive broadsides of lies against Iraq and those few, like myself, who insisted Baghdad had no nuclear weapons.

Almost the entire US and British media were compelled to act as mouthpieces for the George Bush/Tony Blair war against Iraq, trumpeting egregious lies designed to whip up war fever. Our media, supposedly the tribune of democracy, became lie factories, putting even the old Soviet media to shame.

The New York Times led the charge, along with the three main TV networks. I was in Iraq with its star correspondent, Judith Miller, who became a key agent of the pro-war campaign. So too the Murdoch press in Britain and Fox News. When the BBC tried to question the torrent of lies about Iraq, it was crushed by Tony Blair. A leading British nuclear expert who questioned the nuclear lies was murdered. Iraq was polluted by US depleted uranium shells.

Journalists like me were intimidated or marginalized. I was dropped by a leading US newspaper, a major Canadian TV chain, and by CNN for whom I had been a regular commentator. I was told the Bush White House had given orders, ‘get rid of Margolis.’ My sin: insisting Iraq had no nuclear weapons and was not threatening the US. Things became so absurd that the story went out that Saddam had ‘drones of death’ that were poised to attack America.

Of the US media, only the McClatchy chain and Christian Science Monitor reported the war honestly. Nearly all the rest of America’s TV talking heads brayed for war. Most are still there today, demanding war against Iran.

Who was behind the war? A combination of big oil, which wanted Iraq’s vast reserves, and the Israel lobby which wanted to see Iraq destroyed by US power. The Pentagon was taken over by pro-war neoconservatives: Wolfowitz, Feith, Rumsfeld. George Bush, an ignorant fool, was putty in the hands of VP Dick Cheney, a pro-war megalomaniac. The CIA played along. Even the respected former general, Colin Powell, made a fool of himself before the UN and the world by claiming Iraq had hidden weapons. It had chemical weapons, all right, but we had the receipts to show they came from the US and Britain.

No one in the US or Britain ever faced trial for war-mongering and killing vast numbers of people. The lying media escaped well-deserved censure. As for the lying politicians who brought on this disaster, they blamed poor intelligence and bad luck. Those few who opposed the war of aggression remain sidelined or silenced.

Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2019
MainstreamMedia was one of the biggest cheerleader for the war in IRAQ. Maybe that why some people don't believe in the mainstreamMedia anymore.
 

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MainstreamMedia was one of the biggest cheerleader for the war in IRAQ. Maybe that why some people don't believe in the mainstreamMedia anymore.
Remember all the embedded journalists ? Besides that ...looks like someone has nothing better to do than bringing this up years latter ...again.
 

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MainstreamMedia was one of the biggest cheerleader for the war in IRAQ. Maybe that why some people don't believe in the mainstreamMedia anymore.
"Mainstream Media" only goes by the evidence provided by the Right Wing Republican Whitehouse that there were "weapons of mass destruction". Obviously, this was fake as it was a cover up by the Bush Governments.
Do you think that at the time of war, the media should turn against their Government?? Don't you think that it would amount to treason on their part, if they do so??? That is all the right wingers are about......... just blaming the media, when they should really throw that blame against the Right Wing Republican Bush administration for creating a war based on fake evidence!!
 

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"Mainstream Media" only goes by the evidence provided by the Right Wing Republican Whitehouse that there were "weapons of mass destruction". Obviously, this was fake as it was a cover up by the Bush Governments.
Do you think that at the time of war, the media should turn against their Government?? Don't you think that it would amount to treason on their part, if they do so??? That is all the right wingers are about......... just blaming the media, when they should really throw that blame against the Right Wing Republican Bush administration for creating a war based on fake evidence!!
There are plenty of blame to go around.

The IRAQ's fake WMD mess had massive real-world negative impact, leading to over a hundred thousand deaths and trillions in lost taxpayer dollars.

It is a purely journalistic failure, when they became the cheerleaders for Iraq war on the fake WMD. The sheer scale of the errors and exaggerations on IRAq WMD. Also, worse... they the journalists become sides-choosers, obliterating the concept of the press as an independent institution whose primary role is sorting fact and fiction.


On the final note Bush administration should get about 75%-85% of the blame on IRAQ WMD and the rest of the blame should be on the mainstream media!
 

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There are plenty of blame to go around.

The IRAQ's fake WMD mess had massive real-world negative impact, leading to over a hundred thousand deaths and trillions in lost taxpayer dollars.

It is a purely journalistic failure, when they became the cheerleaders for Iraq war on the fake WMD. The sheer scale of the errors and exaggerations on IRAq WMD. Also, worse... they the journalists become sides-choosers, obliterating the concept of the press as an independent institution whose primary role is sorting fact and fiction.


On the final note Bush administration should get about 75%-85% of the blame on IRAQ WMD and the rest of the blame should be on the mainstream media!
The Bush Administration should take the total responsibility for it. What else could the Journalists do but report on the actual war. During the time of war any journalists questioning the role of the American troops would be quelled from doing so. It would also be borderline treason as it may compromise the safety of the troops. The Fox News Network was the biggest cheerleader and even posted what became clear at a later date.......Fake News:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-hundreds-of-wmds-found-in-iraq
 

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The Bush Administration should take the total responsibility for it. What else could the Journalists do but report on the actual war. During the time of war any journalists questioning the role of the American troops would be quelled from doing so. It would also be borderline treason as it may compromise the safety of the troops. The Fox News Network was the biggest cheerleader and even posted what became clear at a later date.......Fake News:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/report-hundreds-of-wmds-found-in-iraq
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IRAQ: HOW WE WERE LIED INTO WAR
by Eric Margolis
March 23, 2019

Sixteen years ago, the US and Britain committed a crime of historic proportion, the invasion and destruction of Iraq. It was as egregious an aggression as Nazi Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland.

Almost the entire US and British media were compelled to act as mouthpieces for the George Bush/Tony Blair war against Iraq, trumpeting egregious lies designed to whip up war fever. Our media, supposedly the tribune of democracy, became lie factories, putting even the old Soviet media to shame.

The New York Times led the charge, along with the three main TV networks. I was in Iraq with its star correspondent, Judith Miller, who be
came a key agent of the pro-war campaign. So too the Murdoch press in Britain and Fox News. When the BBC tried to question the torrent of lies about Iraq, it was crushed by Tony Blair. A leading British nuclear expert who questioned the nuclear lies was murdered. Iraq was polluted by US depleted uranium shells.

Journalists like me were intimidated or marginalized. I was dropped by a leading US newspaper, a major Canadian TV chain, and by CNN for whom I had been a regular commentator. I was told the Bush White House had given orders, ‘get rid of Margolis.’ My sin: insisting Iraq had no nuclear weapons and was not threatening the US. Things became so absurd that the story went out that Saddam had ‘drones of death’ that were poised to attack America.

Of the US media, only the McClatchy chain and Christian Science Monitor reported the war honestly. Nearly all the rest of America’s TV talking heads brayed for war. Most are still there today, demanding war against Iran.


Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2019
This proves my cases...All mainstream media whether left / liberal (CNN/ CTV/ CBC/ ABC/ NY Time) & right ( Fox) are responsible too. That why some people don't trust mainstream media anymore.

Again.. Like I point out...It is a purely journalistic failure, when they ( 'mainstream media' ) became the cheerleaders for Iraq war on the fake WMD. The sheer scale of the errors and exaggerations on IRAQ's WMD. Also, worse... they the journalists become sides-choosers, obliterating the concept of the press as an independent institution whose primary role is sorting fact and fiction.
 

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Well, Saddam wasn't exactly innocent, either. He did bluff his way into the conflict by pretending to have WMD.
 

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Well, Saddam wasn't exactly innocent, either. He did bluff his way into the conflict by pretending to have WMD.
Nonsense, he invited inspectors in, they confirmed no WMD. Saddam was pretty desperate to avoid a war. How know from the rehersal he could not win.
 

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Nonsense, he invited inspectors in, they confirmed no WMD. Saddam was pretty desperate to avoid a war. How know from the rehersal he could not win.
He could not win the first one, either. Yet, he would not pull out of Kuwait. My point being, if you decide to assign blame, assign it honestly.
 

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He could not win the first one, either. Yet, he would not pull out of Kuwait. My point being, if you decide to assign blame, assign it honestly.
After the first one he knew he could not win the second one for sure. He was not sure the US would attack on the first one, on the second one he did everything to avoid it...but it didn't make a diff, Dubya wanted him dead
 

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After the first one he knew he could not win the second one for sure. He was not sure the US would attack on the first one, on the second one he did everything to avoid it...but it didn't make a diff, Dubya wanted him dead
He was not sure??? It was, what, six months between his invasion and the beginning of the Desert Storm? The massive air and sea lift eluded his attention? Did he miss the UN resolution and the massing of a coalition in Saudi, Qatar, etc? I don't disagree that destroying Irag had unintended consequences and that the Americans badly mishandled the conflict. But, again, let's not forget all the "little" details.
 

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He was not sure??? It was, what, six months between his invasion and the beginning of the Desert Storm? The massive air and sea lift eluded his attention? Did he miss the UN resolution and the massing of a coalition in Saudi, Qatar, etc? I don't disagree that destroying Irag had unintended consequences and that the Americans badly mishandled the conflict. But, again, let's not forget all the "little" details.
He wasn't sure they would attack BEFORE he invaded Kuwait, once he did it there was no backing down. The US ambassador also gave him, what he perceived to be a green light to take Kuwait. That is what the "baiting" in the article refers to.
 

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He wasn't sure they would attack BEFORE he invaded Kuwait, once he did it there was no backing down. The US ambassador also gave him, what he perceived to be a green light to take Kuwait. That is what the "baiting" in the article refers to.
Oh, please. As an undisputed master of all he surveyed, the absolute ruler of Iraq, all he had to do is order a withdrawal. He'd probably be alive, today.
 

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This is not a surprise. As we all now know, even the UN that was conducting an investigation, did not find any weapons of mass destruction. No doubt that this war will go down in History as the biggest fake evidence to have conducted it. This war has created the biggest mess in the Middle East, that has since resulted in terrorism that has costed thousands more lives around the world.
But Obama walks on water, why didn’t his highness fix it?
 
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