"Creating Pretexts: The Post-9/11 Campaign Against Iraq"

[Doug Millison]

Creating Pretexts: The Post-9/11 Campaign Against Iraq
by Larry Everest
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/03everest.cfm

In the aftermath of September 11, powerful forces within the U.S.
establishment have been engaged in a campaign of lies, disinformation, and
speculation to pin blame for the World Trade Center attacks and the anthrax
mailings on Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Over the past decade, more than a
million Iraqis have died as a result of U.S. bombs and sanctions. Now,
pretexts are being manufactured to justify targeting Iraq in "phase two" of
"Americaís New War." [...continues at the url above, worth reading...]