Update to the Travel Blog
30-Aug-03
A pretty sizeable wrap-up of Burlington. And no more photos probably until I’m back in Indy. Mayeb while I’m on the way home you’ll see a few from Montreal.
Update to the Travel Blog
29-Aug-03
Not much time for an update. Not much in this one, but you can read it if you want to.
Update to the Travel Blog
26-Aug-03
I’m off to Burlington, VT. Read about my last day in Burlington over on the travel blog.
Update to the Travel Blog
24-Aug-03
More from Montreal. All the dirty (well not so dirty really) details are on the travel blog.
Update to the Travel Blog
24-Aug-03
I’m in Montreal now. Not much to this update but it coveres my trip here and a few things I’ve seen so far while I’m here. Go read all about it at this conveniently provided link.
Update to the Travel BLog
23-Aug-03
I’m in Massena, NY ready to cross into Canada tomorrow on my way to Montreal. Had a great day today driving the New York Seaway Trail all the way here. Check it all out in the latest entry of the travel blog.
Update to the Travel Blog
22-Aug-03
I’m in Rochester, NY now. Check out the new entry in the travel blog for my take on my drive through NY wine country and seeing Niagra Falls.
Update to the Travel Blog
21-Aug-03
Another update to the travel blog, still in Cleveland. Go check it out, if you so desire.
Update to the Travel BLog
21-Aug-03
I’m in Cleveland. Check out the update in the travelblog.
Lies, Lies Everywhere
18-Aug-03
This is a must-read kids.
This article is based on interviews with analysts and policymakers inside and outside the U.S. government, and access to internal documents and technical evidence not previously made public.
The new information indicates a pattern in which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their subordinates — in public and behind the scenes — made allegations depicting Iraq’s nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent in its threat than the data they had would support. On occasion administration advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views. The White House seldom corrected misstatements or acknowledged loss of confidence in information upon which it had previously relied:
(source:Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence)
The article is very long and very detailed. It describes multiple lies and half thruths todl by the White House leading up to the war, but most of its focus is on the aluminum tube lie, where the White House said they were for a centrifuge to enrich uranium but they actually couldn’t be used for that. Another bit from teh article I foudn enlightening…
He [Colin Powell at the U.N.] said different batches [of the aluminum tubes] “seized clandestinely before they reached Iraq” showed a “progression to higher and higher levels of specification, including in the latest batch an anodized coating on extremely smooth inner and outer surfaces. . . .
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An anodized coating is actually a strong argument for use in rockets, according to several scientists in and out of government. It resists corrosion of the sort that ruined Iraq’s previous rocket supply. To use the tubes in a centrifuge, experts told the government, Iraq would have to remove the anodized coating.
(source:ibid)
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An anodized coating is actually a strong argument for use in rockets, according to several scientists in and out of government. It resists corrosion of the sort that ruined Iraq’s previous rocket supply. To use the tubes in a centrifuge, experts told the government, Iraq would have to remove the anodized coating.
(source:ibid)
Read the whole article. It’s very interesting and sheds alot of light on the extent to which the White House went to portray the Iraqi “menace” as much wrose than it was to justify an invasion.