In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
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Follow up on these stories that seem to have disappeared:
Iraq uranium row spreads to Italy
But on Wednesday, the left-wing Italian paper La Repubblica published details of what it said were documents obtained by Italy and passed to MI6 in London.
The paper said that the documents, reportedly obtained by Italian secret services from an African diplomat, contained huge inconsistencies which suggested they were forgeries.
One, for example, was a letter both addressed to and signed by the president of Niger. Another referred to an event which had not happened at the time the letter was dated.
The US has already retracted its uranium claims against Iraq, apologising for accepting as true documents which have since turned out to be forgeries.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna has confirmed that documents which it has seen are forgeries.
Okay the uranium claim was one of the biggest claims in getting people concerned about Iraq, and they were based on forgeries... really bad forgeries.
So don't you think looking into who made the forgeries would be a big story?
I mean, I don't think it was the CIA, they'd do a better job (I'd hope)
But how about some zealous American Neocons?
Chalabi? Someone from the Iraqi National Congress?
or how about Iranian intelligence. (I'll get back to that later).
Now here is another story that screams the need to go big time:
Iraqis fail to regain control of oil revenue
The latest Iraqi attempts to recover control of the country's oil revenues from the United States appear to have hit a dead end with a special delegation being rebuffed in its bid to secure UN help.
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Daylight robbery
Muzhir al-Dulaymi, spokesman for the League for the Defence of Iraqi Peoples' Rights, told Aljazeera the US was systematically milking Iraq of its oil.
"A daylight robbery is going in Iraq. I have first hand information from sources in al-Bakr port in southern Iraq, and in the Turkish port of Jihan, confirming that three million oil barrels are being taken out of Iraq on a daily basis" al-Dulaymi said.
"Oil sale contracts only go to the Iraqi oil ministry for signing. They cannot say a word about them; not to mention the fact that there are many sealed contracts which the Iraqi ministry of oil is not notified of."
Al-Dulaymi says the Bush administration is benefiting from the process.
Is this true? How much money are we talking about? Where is it going? Is it being rerouted to help rebuild Iraq or are the pools of the board of Chevron getting gold plated tileing?
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