Robert Fisk : Folly Taken To A Scale We Haven't Seen Since WWII

[Manix]

When the attacks were launched against the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon two years ago today, who had ever heard of Fallujah or Hillah? When the Lebanese hijacker flew his plane into the ground in Pennsylvania, who would ever have believed that President George Bush would be announcing a "new front line in the war on terror" as his troops embarked on a hopeless campaign against the guerrillas of Iraq?

Who could ever have conceived of an American president calling the world to arms against "terrorism" in "Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza"? Gaza? What do the miserable, crushed, cruelly imprisoned Palestinians of Gaza have to do with the international crimes against humanity in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania?

Nothing, of course. Neither does Iraq have anything to do with 11 September. Nor were there any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, any al-Qa'ida links with Iraq, any 45-minute timeline for the deployment of chemical weapons nor was there any "liberation".

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[rjbcar27]

1. Good find Manix.

Thanks and Welcome! :hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Lies start at the top

Bush has so imbedded the notion that Iraq was the cause of 911 that a majority of those polled think it is so. Personally, I think polls are skewed to give the outcome desired, but it is still troubling to think that even a handful of Americans believe such nonsense.

[xchrom]

3. i think americans believe it

to cover their shame and ignorance.

[FuseONE]

4. .

Fisk is god.

[Free_Thinker]

5. Powerful point

Who could ever have conceived of an American president calling the world to arms against "terrorism" in "Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza"? Gaza? What do the miserable, crushed, cruelly imprisoned Palestinians of Gaza have to do with the international crimes against humanity in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania?

[sonias]

6. Fisk is a wonderful reporter

He's one of the old fashion kind who actually research their stories. He's been stationed in Beirut for about two decades writing for the UK paper "The Independent". I had the good fortune to attend one of his lectures on his last tour in the US in '02.

You can catch up on all of his articles since 3/01 here
http://www.robert-fisk.com/index_fisk_articles.htm

Fisk knows the Middle East very well.

Sonia