I'm posting this because righties love quoting Pravda:
"As Russia had said, Iraq did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction. The only source which claimed that Iraq had such weapons and was linked to Al Qaeda was the Bush regime. Now the first days of the Iraq Enquiry in London have blown the lid off the lies, the treachery, the skullduggery and the downright deceit, the web of lies spun by Bush and Co. Time for responsibility, time for accountability.
Before the Bush regime was swept to power by road blocks in Florida in November 2000, Condoleeza Rice was already writing articles about "regime change" in Baghdad and Bush was already speaking of revenge for President Hussein's supposed attempt on the life of his "Daddy".
There then ensued repeated claims from the Pentagon, which started to exert growing influence over the State Department, that Iraq not only had WMD, but was able to deploy them with "immediate" effect and posed a real danger to the USA and its allies. Claims were made to the UNO that WMD was being "driven around the desert in vehicles", complete with photos of milk powder being presented and described as dangerous chemicals.
Anyone with an iota of intelligence could see that there was no evidence whatsoever and the proof presented for a causus belli was simply hearsay, rumour and conjecture. In short, paramount to someone in some rural backwater pointing at a villager from another village, saying "He's a witch" and the poor man being set upon with machetes.
Attempts to claim Saddam Hussein had WMD, attempts to link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda were ridiculed in this column at the time, while the Bush regime and its puppy-dog sycophants in Europe were warned they were making a grave mistake.
Six and a half years on, the Iraq Enquiry in London proves us right and the perpetrators of this act of slaughter wrong. Among the wealth of evidence supporting our claims and relegating those of the Bush regime to an act of mass murder and war crimes is the following: "
english.pravda.ru
