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Found: Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction

by Greg Palast
December 3, 2006

[Washington]
This photo of condemned Iraqi ex-strongman Saddam Hussein amid exotic weapons of mass destruction, taken just before the liberation of Iraq, was released Saturday by the White House.
Proclaiming that the long-awaited evidence of Saddam’s deadly weaponry was now irrefutable, Presidential spokesman Tony Snow displayed the picture of Saddam with bow and arrows [read the original NY Times article] at a special briefing for the Washington press corp.
“These are ‘dirty’ arrows, capable of delivering radioactive materiel wherever shot,” said Snow.

Project Censored 2007 — All About The O.I.L.

by Greg Palast
October 9, 2006

In what has become a annual event Greg Palast wins two Project Censored awards. Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media. Both winning stories, Bush Didn’t Bungle Iraq, You Fools and Opec and the Economic Conquest of Iraq can be read below.
Bush Didn’t Bungle Iraq, You Fools: The Mission Was Indeed Accomplished
From The Guardian

Read More…Project Censored 2007 — All About The O.I.L.

Wolfowitz Turns Down World Bank Post

by Greg Palast
April 1, 2005

Neoconservative Accepts Blame for Intelligence Errors
[Brussels] In an unexpected turn of events, controversial US Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz has turned down the post of President of the World Bank. The Deputy Defense Secretary had won unanimous support of World Bank trustees in a vote Thursday despite widespread objections to the appointment in the European press.

Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil

by Greg Palast
March 17, 2005

By Greg Palast
Reporting for BBC Newsnight (London)
Why was Paul Wolfowitz pushed out of the Pentagon onto the World Bank — The answer lies in a 323-page document, secret until now, indicating that the allies of Big Oil in the Bush Administration have defeated neo-conservatives and their chief Wolfowitz. BBC Television Newsnight tells the true story of the fall of the neo-cons. An investigation conducted by BBC with Harper’s magazine will also reveal that the US State Department made detailed plans for war in Iraq — and for Iraq’s oil — within weeks of Bush’s first inauguration in 2001.

General Sacked by Bush Says He Wanted Early Elections

by Greg Palast
March 18, 2004

By David Leigh – The Guardian UK
[London] Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq’s first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle [after he called for swift and] free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatisation.

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Found: Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction

Project Censored 2007 — All About The O.I.L.

Wolfowitz Turns Down World Bank Post

Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil

General Sacked by Bush Says He Wanted Early Elections

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