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> Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cited from
> Richard Miniter's book:
> >
> > Found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
> >............................................
> > Found: 1,000 radioactive materials--ideal for
> > radioactive dirty bombs
>
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Things are worse than I thought with regard to this
> bogus post-hoc war propaganda book by Richard
> Miniter, ironically, and aptly
> titled "Disinformation" because that is what it
> appears to contain.
>
Mario clarifies:
>
The title of the book "Disinformation" refers to the
disinformation that has been spread for so long by the
left wing media as well as those who supported Saddam
Hussein's brutal and oppressive regime and opposed and
apparently continue to oppose the liberation of Iraq.
This group apparently includes Santosh. The book is
"post-hoc" because the evidence in it was discovered
"post-hoc".
>
Santosh writes:
>
> It turns out that the above assertions regarding
> uranium and radioactive materials are outright
> deceptions.
>
Mario responds:
>
The book by Richard Miniter has been written after
much research and asserts that the outright deceptions
are by those who supported the regime of Saddam
Hussein and opposed the liberation of Iraq from his
brutal and sadistic dictatorship.
>
Santosh writes:
>
> Please read the following USA Today news report
> entitled "U.S. transferred uranium from Iraq without
> U.N. authorization" to understand what I am talking
> about:
>
Mario replies:
>
Please read the book "Disinformation" by Richard
Miniter in which Miniter systematically dissects the
"No-WMD Myth" (how it started, and why it continues),
as well as 21 other War-on-Terror myths perpetuated by
the media, including the newspaper USA Today that
Santosh cites above.
>
Santosh writes:
>
Personal attacks and insults against me as a result of
this exposure of bogus information will be regarded as
vindication of my point of view. They will therefore
be triumphantly ignored.
>
Mario observes:
>
Santosh should cite any personal attacks against him
as a result of his staunch defense of the
disinformation by the extreme left wing and the media
about Iraq's WMDs as alleged in the book
"Disinformation" by Richard Miniter.
>
The truth about Iraq's WMDs can be summarized very
simply and irrefutably as follows:
1. In the cease fire agreement of 1991, Iraq admitted
having WMDs and agreed to destroy these and provide
the UN with an accounting that they had done so.
>
2. The entire UN, through 16 resolutions over the
following 12 years demanded that Iraq comply with the
1991 agreement on WMDs, which they never did.
>
3. If Saddam "had no WMDs" as his supporters,
including Santosh, allege, then why was he unable to
show the UN inspectors that he had none? He lost his
cushy dictatorship as a result.
>
4. Does it make sense to any sensible person that
Saddam would destroy his WMDs, and then, after taking
the trouble to do so, lose his cushy dictatorship
because he didn't want to prove that he had done so?
>
5. The reason he was unable to is obvious. He was
unable to show that he had destroyed these is BECAUSE
HE HADN'T. The Miniter book only provides further
evidence of this simple logic on some of Iraq's
missing WMDs. The rest are still hidden somewhere.
