:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.20.2003 ::
:: Uncle Sam & Saddam ::
A transcript from CBC News Radio:
"It's not a story that's received a lot of play in western media. But last December, a German paper published a list of dozens of European and American companies reported to have supplied Saddam Hussein with materials for weapons of mass destruction. The paper claimed the list was included in Iraq's massive document on its weapons programs that it turned over to the United Nations. Jim Trautman is a freelance journalist in Ontario. On Commentary, he focuses on some of those American companies."
Excerpt:
"Companies on the list include: Dupont, Honeywell, Bechtel, Unisys, American Type Culture Collection, and the Los Almos and Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Facilities."
"The U.S. companies provided rocket engines, nuclear material, biological and chemical material for weapons of mass destruction. This included cultures to manufacture biological weapons."
And: "This is a war about covering up the deal made with the devil, and oil - always oil."
You can also download a digital recording of the commentary at the CBC link above.
posted by me
:: 10:36:00 PM [+] ::
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