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February 8, 2003
America Makes You Stupid #1The problem with ignorance and stupidity is that it's damned hard to get away with when the whole world is watching. The U.S. and British government's commitment to aggressive ignorance has once again been demonstrated by the fact that these world powers are using the equivalent of "Buy a Term Paper" services to assemble the documents used to justify their hawkish international policy. Turns out that Colin Powell's argument to the U.N. that we ought to invade Iraq was bolstered by a British dossier cobbled together out of apparently random position papers and articles by variously credentialed Middle East experts. You can read about it in the UK Guardian's Feb 7 article, "UK war dossier a sham, say experts." Riddled with plagiarism and inaccuracies, and supported by years-old data, this dossier would be a joke, if the punchline weren't a rain of bombs on innocent civilians. Posted by kalital at February 8, 2003 1:52 PM Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsPost a comment |
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