Saddam Did Have Yellow Cake After All

Until Iraq decided to stop cooperating with the inspectors, something some people have conveniently "forgotten".

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which he then started to again, something some people have conveniently "forgotten"

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Cazzo: "Iraq decided to stop cooperating with the inspectors"

There was a certain and consistent level of Iraqi non-cooperation throughout the weapons inspection saga. There was no sudden decision on Saddam's part to stop cooperating that triggered war. Just as you misunderstand Iraq today, you still woefully misunderstand why Saddam had to drag his feet, for all he was worth, with UNSCOM an UNMOVIC from start to finish: Saddam's power entirely rested on his deterrent ability with his many enemies, across Iraq's borders and within them. The weapons inspection circus in Iraq went far beyond determining the Iraqi threat, into directly threatening the Iraqi regime. The mission creeped from sizing up an arsenal to changing a regime, which had to be kept quiet because such a mission violates the UN Charter and US Constitution.

Many who fail to understand this duck away insisting that they cannot abide, and that it is wrong to abide being concerned with what concerned Saddam. Such disregard is at the core of how the US enterprise in Iraq continues to fail: We aren't interested in Iraqi concerns that do not mesh with our own intentions. The warpath that the US neoconservatives took us on had no consideration for Iraqi sovereignty then or now. This mentality also persists in disregard for the salient facts that have come fully to light. The weapons inspectors/intelligence operatives (and yes, there was much overlap proven) in Iraq really did determine that Iraq's arsenal was no serious or remarkable threat to the world. But the obsessed and incompetent architects of this war weren't interested in that answer being broadcast, and neither was Saddam. So they actively suppressed such knowledge.

It's amazing to me how such a thorough job of propaganda was done, that we are still painstakingly setting out the basics of recent history for those who swallowed the most disinformation, because it fit so comfortably into a simplistic Us-Them, Good-Bad mentality. It is no minor sociopathy for populations to be mobilized into such modes of collective thinking. When the Bush cabinet decided to push the marketing of war in Iraq as they did, they delved into the domestic psychological-manipulation territory perfected by history's most heinous and cataclysmic regimes. The damage they have wrought goes on in Iraq's agony, and in the cognitive dysfunction of this unnecessary war's holdout supporters.

Hans Blix, 2003:

Scott Ritter, 2005:

 

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Please stop lying. I suppose revising history to your liking is how you live with yourself. You probably never got the accurate story to begin with, since Fox and "friends" lie constantly. The Bush administration even sent out people to pretend to be experts for the corporate media, even though they were employees of the Pentagon.

 

Once again, The Onion.

Saddam Enrages Bush With Full Compliance

February 12, 2003 | Issue 39•05


WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush expressed frustration and anger Monday over a U.N. report stating that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is now fully complying with weapons inspections. "Enough is enough," a determined Bush told reporters. "We are not fooled by Saddam's devious attempts to sway world opinion by doing everything the U.N. asked him to do. We will not be intimidated into backing down and, if we have any say in the matter, neither will Saddam." Bush added that any further Iraqi attempt to meet the demands of the U.N. or U.S. will be regarded as "an act of war."


It's funny because it's true.