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‘Roman Kuzniar is no militant pacifist, but a well-known geo-strategist. A month ago, he still directed Warsaw's diplomatic academy. What happened? "At the end of January, I wrote a classified memo to my country's main officials," this understated man with graying temples recounts. "Therein, I explained why, in my opinion, it was altogether contrary to our national interest to participate in the American antimissile shield as the Bush administration asks us to do. So, they showed me the door."
Why this opposition to the American plan? "Because it's a bad response to a problem that doesn't exist," explains Roman Kuzniar. "In spite of what Washington maintains, the so-called "rogue" states, Iran and North Korea, have neither the ability nor the intention of attacking Europe or America with long-range ballistic missiles. Consequently, this purported shield is not defensive, as the Pentagon claims. In reality, it is offensive. Deployed, it would allow the United States to conduct a military operation against any country it would choose as an enemy with impunity. They much be prevented from doing that."’
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The seed of crap
John Simpson
By John Simpson
BBC World Affairs Editor
On the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Baghdad experienced at least six bomb explosions, with up to 20 dead and dozens of injuries. Much of Iraq is still in a state of violence and fear.
It has emerged that MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, was up-front about its lack of first-class intelligence about Iraq.
It told Tony Blair it hadn't known much about Iraq's work on chemical and biological weapons since 1988.
But that wasn't the impression Mr Blair gave to Parliament. As we've seen, he called the intelligence "extensive, detailed and authoritative".
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Now, though, a very senior figure in Whitehall, heavily involved during the run-up to the war, has told me privately it was one of the great regrets of his career, with the benefit of hindsight, that he didn't challenge how the intelligence was used.
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Gus: This is grand escapism fiction from the reality... a way for the powers in place to calm the inevitable storms created by their deceit, by still acknowledging a seed of doubt... a risk that could not be taken... In fact, Bush, Blair and Howard, all knew with EXACTITUDE (so did the French and the Germans) that Saddam had got rid of his WMDs (WMDs that had been supplied by the West) long time before the war.
The main hole in "their" argument voiced by this "very senior figure in Whitehall" is that no one in their right mind would go and attack someone who had WMDs so well hidden, they could not track them, but so much on the ready "they were able to reach Cyprus" ...
In the preliminary stages before the war, Saddam would have had to be a dummy (he was not) not to know war was coming his way, and would place his WMDs in key position to inflict maximum damage... Thus the US, UK and Australia had to KNOW that Saddam had NOT any WMDs about to hit the invading troops, OTHERWISE the casualty rate would have been "horrendous" . It is Gus' own estimate from his knowledge of warfare, that had Saddam got REAL WMDs, the Coalition of the Windmills would have suffered at least 50,000 casualties in the first week of invasion alone...
So let say that the "Whitehall mole" (unless he's a toad) is spreading a bit of manure in the hope the seeds of crap will grow to become flowers of accepted version of events... No way.