Noam dwells a fair bit on misinfromation in the mid-East.  I thought that
readers might find this interesting.
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>The disingenuous of American officials -- The Secretary of State and the
>Secretary of Defense at the top of the list -- is quite mindboggling.
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>Albright and Cohen have taken to ranting and raving in recent weeks
>about "Saddam's weapons of mass destruction."  Cohen has been carting
>around 5-pound bags of sugar -- enough Anthrax to kill half of
>Washington we are warned!  And they've been showing emotive picture
>from Halabja in 1988, Albright telling us how much she cares about
>the people of Iraq!
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>But there's a major problem with all this; and neither Albright or
>Cohen have come clean so far.
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>American officials are understandably hesitant to get into details,
>rather reluctant to talk about what was really going on just 10 years
>ago when the American-instigated war between Iraq and Iran was still
>rageing.  And here's why.
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>Ten years ago, at the time of Halabja, American officials were not
>only not condemning Saddam, they were courting him, financing him,
>praising him, and arming him!  The USA was very much a complicitous
>party to Halabja when and after it happened.
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>And what about the great Saddam Anthrax threat?
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>It now comes to light that that too has a "Made in the U.S.A." sticker!
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>If Albright or Cohen have any doubts, all they have to do is get
>in their limos and head over to a company known as American Type Culture
>Collection, just a few miles and a few minutes away in Rockville,
>Maryland.
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>Over lunch they could discuss how ATCC, with U.S. Government knowledge
>and blessings, sent 3 different lethal strains of deadly Anthrax to
>Iraq in 1986 and 1987!
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>Maybe its time to have a few more sanctions and inspections -- these
>in the Washington area!
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