The Iraq War Editorial That Disappeared

Dear friends,

The below article was published on the front page of the editorial section in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on June 8^th. Yet within weeks of its publication it disappeared from their website. To prove this yourself, go to the wonderful Internet tool at http://web.archive.org. In the "Wayback Machine" there, enter the original Internet address of this article: www.startribune.com/stories/1519/3920992.html. Then click the "Take Me Back" button. You will see only one link, dated June 11, 2003. This archive generally updates articles every month or more, showing that the article was removed from the website shortly after its publication.

I have an image of the original article sent to me by a supporter. I've copied the article below, though you can also access it directly at the link below. Why have none of our other media bothered to mention these most important facts? For the answer to this question, see a most enlightening article by a highly decorated U.S. general at www.WantToKnow.info/warisaracket. Please help to spread this vital news which someone doesn't want us to know by sharing this with your friends and colleagues.

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Maybe It Stands for War's Mission Disputed
Published June 8, 2003 in Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."

Vice President Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons."

President Bush, Sept. 12, 2002

"If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world."

White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, Dec. 2, 2002

"We know for a fact that there are weapons there."

Ari Fleischer, Jan. 9, 2003

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent."

President Bush, Jan. 28, 2003

"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."

Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5, 2003

"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."

President Bush, Feb. 8, 2003

"So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not."

Colin Powell, March 8, 2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

President Bush, March 17, 2003

"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes."

Ari Fleischer, March 21, 2003

"There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them."

Gen. Tommy Franks, March 22, 2003

"I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction."

Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman, March 23, 2003

"One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites."

Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark, March 22, 2003

"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad."

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003

"Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty."

Scholar Robert Kagan, April 9, 2003

"I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found."

Ari Fleischer, April 10, 2003

"We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them."

President Bush, April 24, 2003

"There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country."

Donald Rumsfeld, April 25, 2003

"We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so."

President Bush, May 3, 2003

"I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction."

Colin Powell, May 4, 2003

"I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country."

Donald Rumsfeld, May 4, 2003

"I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program."

President Bush, May 6, 2003

"I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, [or] whether they're still hidden."

Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commander, 101st Airborne, May 13, 2003

"Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found."

Gen. Michael Hagee, commandant of the Marine Corps, May 21, 2003

"Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction."

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 26, 2003

"They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer."

Donald Rumsfeld, May 27, 2003

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction [as justification for invading Iraq] because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, May 28, 2003

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