| Date |
Lie |
Fact |
| Late 2002 to May 2003 |
"Saddam Hussein has WMD which are a threat
to the security of the United States and his neighbours" Source Bush, Blair, Bertie, all the corporate media in US, Irl & UK. |
The UN could not find any WMD before and when
the war started. Saddam is ousted as leader of Iraqi and most of his army dead but he never used WMD to defend Iraq. Some pro-war fanatics insist they are still hidden somewhere and just waiting to be found but this is highly unlikely since what good are they to Saddam if they are miles underground. Why didn't these omniscient beings tell the UN where they are buried before the war ? The UK's accusation of a 45 minute launch time for WMDs has long fallen apart. Other pro-war people say Saddam has just smuggled them to Syria etc. Hard to imagine an Iraqi convoy of nuclear missiles escaping US spy satellites etc. In the event of Syria being invaded and no WMD found there either I would expect those same people to say that Saddam has just smuggled out all his WMD to Iran, Palestine, Gibralter etc... The non-finding of WMD has received very little press or analysis in the corporate media.. |
| 2003, Oct 21 |
"The United States, Israel's key ally, opposes
exiling Arafat." http://home.eircom.net/... |
The US actually vetoed the Syrian proposed
UN resolution asking Israel to withdraw its threat or "removing" Arafat. |
| 2003, Nov 30 | Irish Independent smear campaign www.independent.ie/... |
From the "Can you believe it? RTE's anti-war 'star'
" headline to the ravings against "meddling left", "bleeding heart lobby",
RTE and Iraqi woman Nuria Mustafas right to protest over the Iraq
invasion this article is sickening. No evidence is presented to back up
the claim that Nuria is wrong, just ranting anti-anti-war drivel. |
| 2003, Dec6 |
"Gardai
to carry new batons for first time at Shannon demo" www.unison.ie/irish_independent/... |
No new telescopic batons were to be seen at
the Dec 6 March / Blockade in Shannon. The only weapon the Gardai used
were clear plastic shields. Corporate media such as the Irish Independent
use the baton headline to infer there is a need for them in their quest
to criminalise any anti-war protests. The focus of the protest about 115,157
soldiers on 1,464 flights appears as a footnote near the end of their
report.Obviously "new retractable batons" is more sensational than over
half the US army in Iraq coming through Ireland.. |
| 2003 Dec 17 |
www.clarefm.ie
archives disappear |
This radio station which is the local one
for Co. Clare where Shannon airport is located was a goldmine of information
about events such as protests at the airport. Particularly so since the local
newspaper "The Clare Champion"s website contains no news, just an ad for
the paper. The Clare FM archives section existed up to July / August but
disappeared sometime in November ! The radio station was contacted about
it but no reply received. This technically isn't a lie, but there is a fine
line between lying and withholding / withdrawing the truth. Some stories which they ran, and their now obsolete links are listed below: http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/26.htm Ed Horgan (citizen who brought government to court over Shannon use) trial date set. http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/25.htm World Airways (see Nov 26 public meeting report on homepage) DC 10 makes emergency landing - described as "Non-military" ??? http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/21.htm Sile De Valera "regrets" war but says Shannon use not unconstitutional.. Your name is on the "name and shame" list for voting pro Shannon warport. Please stop lying Sile. Also pictures of CW5 (Catholic Worker 5) and Mary Kelly. http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/20.htm Bishop of Killaloe Dr Willie Walsh has criticised the use of Shannon Rare report of a representative of the Irish Catholic church condemning military use of Shannon. The Protestant & Anglican church in the UK is far more vocal in its condemnation. http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/08.htm Anti war protest in Shannon http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/07.htm Pictures of scuffles at Shannon warport. http://www.clarefm.ie/news/2003/march/04.htm Rebecca Garcia arrested during protests re Afghanistan War at Shannon Airport. |
| "Iraq war reader" - "Everything you need
to know about the war in Iraq". |
•Actually has a Saddam double on the cover
according to "The wars against Saddam" John Simpson pg 19. |
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| 2004 |
Irish Times has an pro-war stance |
• Harry Browne ( an Irish American born in
NJ) was sacked by the Irish Times in 2003 for his anti-war stance after spending
13 yrs working for the paper. He now has some articles on www.indymedia.ie • An Irishmans Diary, by Kevin Myers. This column is constantly pro-war / war apologist. Some people think someone other that Kevin Myers actually writes this since it's so one sided. Here are extracts from it on Friday April 9, 2004: "Afri is one of those ghastly little relics from a time when everyone believed in peace man, and lurv, and equality and justice and was opposed to war and hunger & other things which damaged flowers and children and other living creatures. Almost makes most right-minded people vomit" Afri have a new publication out: "Death from a distance: the ongoing militarisation of Ireland". "Yet this cretinous moral superiority so informs our pulic ethos that Afri's baseless denunciations of our universities for becoming centres for military research are treated as a matter for serious journalistic enquiry, instead of being hurled where they belong, in the bin". "Mankind is a violent species and he who doesn't defend his borders and his beliers will sooner or later find the borders crossed by armoured columns and his political systems forcibly exchanged for someone elses". - hmmm - the last line could be used to argue in favour of the Iraqis defending Iraq instead of for the US etc. soldiers invading it. |
| Sunday Independent 11/4/4 |
Brendan O'Connor is the Kevin Myers of the
Indo as far as the war is concerned. On Page 2 of the Living section he says: "But now that Americans, who look a bit like us are dying, I'm thinking we should maybe get out. We should just let them at their civil war or whatever it is they're at". - civil war ?!?! Brendan is not the only person I've heard say this. So the US invasion was "humanitarian intervention" in a "civil war" all along ? When both the Shia & Sunni are revolting against the US its a very international war, not a civil one. "Don't worry. I have a solution. I like to call it an Irish solution to an Iraqi problem. We should do nothing but then feel really bad about it afterwards. We should do what is know as "A Rwanda'..." - The Irish government has already contributed massively towards the killing of ~30,000 Iraqis and the removal of Iraqi Independence all in the name of the lie aobut WMDs. We should "feel really bad about it" based on the events of the last year. Brendan must be sleepless at night at the news that Spain, Poland, Honduras etc are pulling out their troops from April 20 onwards... |
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| Sunday Independent 27/6/4 pg18 |
"They are putting something in protestor's water"
"Marchers should look to the issues at home, writes Leslie Mallory" Choice quotes: • "You have to wonder at the sanity of parents who believe the "guarantees" of organisers promising "child-friendly" protests. Or the ranting of some residents affecting to fear another Tianamen Square, but burning their Garda security passes" -The organisers have plenty of marshals and no arrests were made on the previous day, so the June 26 marches were indeed "child-friendly". Only uniformed gardai, not riot police were visible. • "You don't see many big protest marches about [Raw sewage etc. contaminating the drinking water of hundreds of people in Dundalk etc.]. Pollution can wait while the anti-Washington strutting in the streets leads where and achieves what? Apart, of course from boosting the bubble reputations of the next lot of Tariq Ali ..." -They were anti-war protests Leslie, nott anti-Washington. • "As for the woman-nutter who told a chat-show it is the Americans fault that hostages are bing beheaded on TV, I am putting Al-Qaeda on notice. Unless they cease this distasteful but understandable pracice, I may have to stop them by having a fancy-dress protest march in the west of Ireland which will make them think again." Similarly on page 18 under "Singling out American from a whole legion of torturers": • "..the President of China, a country whith which Ireland maintains perfectly amicable relations , was in town. Consistency sureley demanded that [Michael] McDowell and [Mary] O'Rourke should use the occasion to loudly declare what the latter called last week her 'distaste" for torture [but they didn't]." - China didn't lie about Iraqi WMD &; were against the invasion of Iraq in the UN. • "..Russian President Vladimir Putin, were he to land in Shannon, would not be met by thousands of the unwashed out to show how virtous and caring they are." - Russia didn't lie about Iraqi WMD &p; were against the invasion of Iraq in the UN. • "...Bush-haters seem to have little problem with Slick Willie. [Bill Clinton].....Do bombs dropped by Democratic presidents not kill people too?" - Many of the anti-war protesters are awware of Clintons bombing campaigns - see "Clinton's War" link on homeepage, but he did manage to hide his military ambitions a lot better than Bush, at the time. On the postive side (pg 23): • "The Irish Organisation of President George Bush's visit turned into farce yesterday when scores of journalists were kept late for the final press conference. A 15-minute straight journey became a two-hour nightmare as the official buses full of media were brought on a massive detour of Co. Clare in order to miss the protesters - only to find that the protesters had out-smarted gardai and blocked the road. It all meant the President of the United States was delayed and the press conference started half an hour late" - Who said Governer Bush wouldn't noticee the protests ?! |
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