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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
US suspected of hiding motives for mass destruction
The United Nations has urged president Bush to allow UN motives inspectors into the United States. The US is suspected of developing secret motives for mass destruction.
In the past few months, the US has repeatedly stated that it will attack Iraq, justifying the attack plans with allegations that Iraq is assisting Al-Qaeda and that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction. However, the promised evidence to back up those allegations has failed to materialize. The US is now widely suspected of secretly developing forbidden motives for attacking Iraq.
Experts are worried that the US is hiding its motives because the motives violate the Geneva Conventions. The strong opposition of the US against the International Criminal Court only strengthens this suspicion, one expert said.
But the head of the UN motives inspections team said that the US "probably doesn't have any good motives for attacking Iraq yet. That's why we should not push this inspections issue too hard. If we go in now, and establish that there are no real motives, the Americans will look ridiculous in front of the complete international community. We have to give them some time to save face."
Seymour Woodstein, a journalist who has been successfully investigating hidden motives for over 30 years, disagrees. "According to my sources, the Pentagon has clear motives for attacking Iraq. Most people in the government don't care if those motives violate Geneva Conventions, and they don't care whether rest of the world knows about those motives or not. The one person they are hiding the real motives from is president Bush. Bush appears to be a very righteous guy, and his aides are afraid that when he would find out about the real motives for attacking Iraq, he might order a massive attack on Washington for the same reasons."
President Bush, asked whether he knew the real motives for attacking Iraq, reacted impatiently. "I know exactly what I am doing," he said. "We have to attack Iraq because Saddam Hussein has to go. Why? Because Saddam is a bad guy. Isn't that a good reason? You have to do something about the bad guys. That's how the world works." posted by Anonymous12:34 PM
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