Tuesday,
June 10, 2008
Gianni Riotta, Rai TV,
The ANNOTICO
Report
These are the
Lies that Bush repeated to Italian Journalist Gianni Riotta without Questioning
, which I remedy:
(1) BUSH: .. "everybody
thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction"
BECAUSE, Bush , Colin Powell, and
Condi Rice ALL assured the WORLD that they had UNDENIABLE Evidence that for
National Security reasons they could not reveal.When in Reality they took ALL
Intelligence that did not support their position and either ignored it, or had
it deleted in a rewrite.
(2) BUSH: That "Security
Council Resolution 1441 was 15 to nothing .." (to invade
WRONG: US Ambassador Negroponte
stated at the time that UN Res.1441 " contains no "hidden
triggers" and no "automaticity" with respect to the use of
force. If there is a further Iraqi breach, reported to the Council by
UNMOVIC, the IAEA or a Member State, th e matter will return to the Council for
discussions as required" The UK
Ambassador repeated that statement, and the Syrian Ambassador stated:
Res 1441 "would not be used as a pretext for striking against Iraq"
(3) BUSH: "getting
rid of Saddam Hussein was the right thing..... , because that is the place from
which the terrorists launched their attacks....
WRONG: Bin Laden is
Fundamentalist Muslim and Hussein was Secular, and they were Strong
Adversaries, NOT Allies!!!!!!
Interview of President
Bush by Gianni Riotta, Rai TV,
Saturday, June
07, 2008
WASHINGTON, June
7, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX
The following is
an excerpt from an interview of President Bush by Gianni Riotta, Rai TV,
....Question:
You're aware that history will ask you about
PRESIDENT BUSH :
Well, look, I want to remind people, the report yesterday was one of many
reports that -- everybody thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction. I will remind people -- and one of the things important about
history is to remember the true history. And so the Security Council
Resolution 1441 was 15 to nothing on Saddam Hussein: disclose, disarm or
face serious consequences. European nations --
And so,
absolutely, getting rid of Saddam Hussein was the right thing. And it
was -- we're all disappointed the intelligence wasn't what it was. But
now the challenge is to help this young democracy survive. And a democracy in
the heart of the
THE FULL
INTERVIEW IS AT: http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/interview-president-bush-gianni-riotta-rai-tv-italy/
A
resolution by the UN Security Council, passed unanimously on November 8, 2002, offering Iraq "a final opportunity to comply with
its disarmament obligations" that had been set out in several previous
resolutions (Resolution 660, Resolution 661, Resolution 678, Resolution 686, Resolution 687, Resolution 688, Resolution 707,
Resolution 715,
Resolution 986, and Resolution 1284).
Resolution Statement
Resolution 1441
specifically stated:
On 12 September 2002, President Bush spoke before the General Assembly of the United Nations and
outlined a catalogue of complaints against the Iraqi government. These
included:
Following the
speech, intensive negotiations began with other members of the Security
Council. In particular, three permanent members (with veto power) of the
Council were known to have misgivings about an invasion of
In the meantime,
The resolution
text was drafted jointly by the United States and the UK, the result of eight weeks of tumultuous
negotiations, particularly with Russia and France.
On 8 November
2002, the Security Council passed Resolution 1441 by a unanimous 15 to 0 vote,
which included
While some
politicians have argued that the resolution could authorize war under certain
circumstances,
the representatives in the meeting were clear that this was not the case. The
ambassador for the
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[T]his resolution contains no "hidden
triggers" and no "automaticity" with respect to the use of
force. If there is a further Iraqi
breach, reported to the Council by UNMOVIC, the IAEA or a |
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The ambassador
for the
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We heard loud and clear during the negotiations the concerns about "automaticity" and "hidden triggers" -- the concern that on a decision so crucial we should not rush into military action; that on a decision so crucial any Iraqi violations should be discussed by the Council. Let me be equally clear in response... There is no "automaticity" in this resolution. If there is a further Iraqi breach of its disarmament obligations, the matter will return to the Council for discussion as required in paragraph 12. We would expect the Security Council then to meet its responsibilities. |
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The message was
further confirmed by the ambassador for
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Iraq agreed to
the Resolution
on 13 November. Weapons inspectors returned on November 27, led
by Hans Blix of UNMOVIC and Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic
Energy Agency. The inspectors had been absent from
Inspectors began
visiting sites where WMD production was suspected, but found no evidence of
such activities, except for 18 undeclared 122mm chemical rockets that were
destroyed under UNMOVIC supervision. P. 30 As was discovered after the invasion
of
Debate about
Resolution 1441 therefore turns on whether, despite the absence of WMDs and the
acceptance of inspections,
On December 7,
2002, Iraq filed its 12,000-page weapons declaration with the UN in order to
meet requirements for this resolution....By March, Blix declared that the
December 7 report had not brought any new documentary evidence to light.Iraq
claimed that it had disposed of its AMDs, but UNMOVIC found this impossible to
confirm since Iraq had not allowed the destruction to be witnessed by
inspectors.
At this point,
the US Administration asserted that
Before the
meeting took place, French president Jacques Chirac declared on March 10 that
In the leadup to
the meeting, it became apparent that a majority of UNSC members would oppose
any resolution leading to war. As a result, no such resolution was put to
the Council.
At the
In June 2006, the
National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), a US Department of Defense entity,
released a report detailing the weapons of mass destruction that had been found
in
The Bush
administration commissioned the Iraq Survey Group to determine whether in fact
any WMD existed in
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"While a small number of old, abandoned
chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that |
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The review was
conducted by Charles
Duelfer and the Iraq Survey Group. In October 2004, Bush
said of Duelfer' s analysis. "The chief weapons inspector, Charles
Duelfer, has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier
conclusion of David Kay
that
Factual questions
about the Iraqi declaration still remain. To date the contents have still not
been made public for independent scrutiny. When the
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