February 27, 2003
The joke is on all of us, and it’s not funny.
Salon’s Joe Conason asks “Why is the U.N. -- at the White House's request -- censoring 8,000 pages of Iraq's weapons declaration?” He goes on to answer his question, including pointing out that…
Evidently those documents name corporations and other entities from all those countries that supplied the Iraqi weapons industries, back when our politicians still considered Saddam Hussein preferable to the alternatives and cared little for the fate of the Kurds, the Shia and the tortured Iraqi people.
As Conason goes on to explain:
The role of Western governments and companies in arming Saddam is not exactly a secret, of course. Covert U.S. financial and military assistance to Iraq was the subject of one of the unfinished scandals of the first Bush administration -- named "Iraqgate" by William Safire, if I recall correctly. Only a few news organizations, notably the L.A. Times and the Financial Times, pursued that story aggressively, but it scared the Republicans badly. These days, they have little to fear from the docile press corps.
Time to join the movement to impeach Dubya.
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