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| Axis of Evil |
| 'Lies! All lies!' |
| 2003-02-05 |
| You maybe expected them to say something different? A senior Iraqi member of parliament dismissed as "lies" evidence presented Wednesday by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the U.N. Security Council on alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. "Made it up. Fibber! Liar, liar, pants on fire!" "These are lies and fabrications which have no material proof. They are aimed at creating a pretext for military aggression against Iraq," Salem al-Kubaisi, head of Arab and foreign relations committee at Iraq's national assembly, told Reuters. "Tapes? Doctored! Photos? Doctored! Defectors? All traitors, liars and thieves!" Powell addressed the Security Council for just over an hour, laying out what he said was evidence gathered by intelligence sources, telephone intercepts, satellite footage and defectors on Iraq's ongoing weapons of mass destruction programs. I liked the photos of Sammy with the nekkid 14-year-old Yemenette in the bunker with the sign that said "No warheads over 20 kiloton, please!". And the one of Tariq Aziz dumping the bucket of anthrax out with the garbage... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |