Biggest apparent non-story of yesterday

Massive anti-terrorism rally in Iraq yesterday. Featuring slogans like “NO NO to terrorism, YES YES for peace” and people telling Al-Arabiyah network reporters “For once, speak the truth”.

Aziz Al-Yassiri secretary of the Iraqi Democratic Trend described the daily attacks in Iraq as acts of terrorism and that any attempt to legitimize or justify these acts as ‘resistance’ are ridiculous. … Protestors carried signs and banners that said ‘No to terrorism’, ‘Yes for peace’, ‘Iraqis stand united against terror and violence’, ‘Thanks to CPA soldiers’, ‘We thank the coalition for our FREEDOM’.

BTW, in another underreported story, the Iraqi Army officer responsible for the 45-minute claim regarding the lead time for Hussein to launch a WMD attack has come forward and is sticking with his story.

“Forget 45 minutes, we could have fired these within half an hour,” al-Dabbagh added.

He said the weapons were not used because most of the Iraqi army did not want to fight for Saddam.

The newspaper said al-Dabbagh works as an adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council and said he has received death threats from Saddam loyalists.

It reported that Iyad Allawi, the head of the Iraqi National Accord and a prominent council member, confirmed he had passed information from al-Dabbagh on Saddam’s weapons to British and American intelligence officials in the spring and summer of 2002

But guess what - Folks are going to spin that all of this is manipulation by the Bush media machine, all designed to guarantee his re-election.

But we all know that Howard Dean is right: “It only becomes more and more clear every day what a mistake this administration made in launching a preemptive war in Iraq”. I’m sure the folks at Healing Iraq would agree completely. We should have left Saddam in power, for sure.

26 million Iraqis freed, and at least 10,000 not murdered by their own government. Ten thousand. At 400 a year, that’s more than everyone who’s ever graduated from Caddo Magnet High School.

Look, I support freedom of ideas as much as the next person, but why the heck can’t a non-kook garner a decent amount of support?

Posted by jank at December 11, 2003 9:50 PM