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Sept. 16, 2006 Recently I posted an article showing how one of this website’s contributors, Dr. Brooks Mick, had been duped into believing that the Iraqi government was complicit in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The ultimate source of the false information was Ahmad Chalabi. I gave some very brief biographical notes on Chalabi, stating, “He is currently under investigation by several US agencies and is wanted for bank fraud in Jordan .” I also mentioned that he aspired to the presidency of Iraq . This brought a wild, thoughtless response from another of this website’s contributors, Mike Haran, who absurdly objected that the above statement of mine was “nebulous”. He also asked snidely, “Which agencies? The UCLA, the Democrat national committee, maybe one that Keyes or some of his friends head?” I replied by mentioning that Chalabi has already been tried and sentenced in absentia in Jordan, and faces 22 years’ imprisonment there, and I provided links. Also I called Haran a smart-aleck for his UCLA remarks. Then he posted a surrebuttal, making the preposterous statement, “Because a Jordanian court finds Chalabi guilty Thomas Keyes automatically himself assumes that he is.” I didn’t say any such thing. I simply said he was wanted for bank fraud in Jordan . Haran said also that he stood by his smart-aleck remark about UCLA, and challenged me to name the agencies. So I will; they are the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA and the FBI. Haran can stand by his smart-aleck remarks all day, but they’re still smart-aleck remarks. Here’s an excerpt from an article on the Senate Intelligence Committee report: “A second part of the report concluded that false information from the Iraqi National Congress, an anti-Saddam group led by then-exile Ahmed Chalabi, was used to support key U.S. intelligence assessments on Iraq .” http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003119383 I criticized Haran’s mention of Rove and Bush in this matter, because all that I was arguing was that Chalabi provided false information, which is true. It doesn’t depend on anything whatsoever that Rove did. Haran argues that he is trying to draw an analogy. But I’m interested in facts, not analogies. So let me again say that this has nothing to do with Rove. Further down, Haran says, “The whole world believed Sadam (sic) had WMD.” This is the same thing that the abovesaid Dr. Mick has been saying, so I sense the existence of a cliché or party slogan to that effect. No, it is not true. The whole world did not believe it. Hans Blix of the UN had been inspecting for weapons in Iraq for some time, and had found no WMD. Mohamed el Baradei of the IAEA had likewise found nothing. China, Russia and France argued that Blix should have been allowed more time to complete his investigation. But the Bush administration acted as if Blix had been a doddering old, incompetent fool. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/14/sprj.irq.un/ I, for one, didn’t believe the WMD tales, but I couldn’t know for sure. Many websites challenged the allegations. Here is a page with all sorts of links to people who entertained doubts about the WMD. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3908733 Haran makes several idle generalizations, like, “Military plans do not evolve out of the blue,” and, “It is all very well to Monday morning quarter back but you have to look at history in the context of the time it occurred, not from the point of view of your own pet peeves and beliefs.” No one needs, wants or benefits from such useless ramblings. Haran continues with this fatuous comment, “Was there a connection between Al Qaeda and Sadam (sic) Hussein? Well, what can I say: war is war.” That is no answer to the question. The answer is, “No, there was no connection.” Haran shows himself to be a prize jackass with this remark, “If Thomas would but get his head out of the New York Times and from in front of the television set he could perhaps get a broader view of the world.” I haven’t watched a single television program for years and years, and I hate newspapers. Anyway, I’ve been in South America for almost two years. I have a broader view of the world than Haran , who is merely another bigoted loudmouth: http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/july/article229.html http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/06june/article149.html Haran adds this ridiculous remark, “I wont even bother getting into the Jewish conspiracy paragraph regarding Israeli pressure for the Iraq invasion as I now some how feel guilty of taking advantage of the mentally unbalanced.” Anyone who does not understand the centrality of Israel and the US pro-Israel lobby to all the strife in the Middle East should not be posting articles at all. This is a well-documented thesis that has been espoused by several former US Senators and Representatives, journalists and scholars. Saying that he feels “guilty of taking advantage of the mentally unbalanced,” Haran just makes himself out to be a sassy little jackanapes. Here are a couple of articles that this impostor must not have read; http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020610/massing http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html Uttering the word “conspiracy”, Haran overlooks the fact that he is trying to revive and justify already-debunked conspiracy theories that surrounded Saddam Hussein. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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