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White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing
An anonymous reader writes "The White House has begun implementing a new policy toward the U.S. Geological Survey, in which all scientific papers and other public documents by USGS scientists must be screened for content. The USGS communications office must now be 'alerted about information products containing high-visibility topics or topics of a policy-sensitive nature.' Subjects fitting this description might include global warming, or research on the effects of oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve."
"We did not know one way or the other until we had troops on the ground."
... there is literally no point in being there. At all. I'm not anti-war. I'm anti-stupid ...
Exactly my point. The administration assured us they did know; they lied.
They had bad intelligence from the CIA, and they are hardly the first administration to suffer from that. Recall that Clinton bad intelligence regarding chmical weapon precursors and bombed a civilian pharmaceutical plant. Also recall the bad intelligence where Clinton bombed the Chinese embassy in the Balkans. Using the word "lie" simply demonstrates a political agenda, not a historical one.
"Iraq regularly fired upon US aircraft."
Let me actually finish that sentence for you: "Iraq regularly fired upon US aircraft flying in their airspace." And let me also point out that if Iraqi aircraft were flying in our airspace.
The no-fly zones protecting the shiites and kurds was established as part of the Gulf War cease fire. They surrendered, the agreed to terms, they violated those terms and continued to engage in hostile actions.
"Iraq was involved in assassination attempts of US citizens, a former president for example."
You mean like when Bush tried to kill Saddam in the very first bombing of the war?
Again, they did so after they surrendered.
When we sneakily dropped all manner of high powered weapons on a major city in Iraq using aircraft that were invisible to Iraqi defenses?
Saddam was warned prior to the attack. He was given a deadline.
Yet you exhibit stupidity by failing to recognize that your arguments are against the invasion, and not applicable to the current war. Again, today there *is* and al-quaeda presence, today there *is* an internation johadist presence, etc. That is what is relevant today, not WMD years ago. Again, the fixation and yesteryears WMD issue indicates a fixation on politics.