Bush Mob Used Recently Found Air Force Pilot As Excuse For Iraq
They waved this pilot around until they got what they wanted, and then tossed him aside.
An 18 Year Old Mystery Is Solved and Another Piece of the Case for War Crumbles
"On January 17, 1991, Navy Lt. Commander Michael Speicher was shot down over the Iraqi desert, apparently by an Iraqi Air Force aircraft. The 18 year mystery of what happened to him after that is finally solved today, as his remains were found at the crash site.
Speicher, who continued to receive promotions after his death rising all the way to the rank of captain, was declared killed in action (KIA) at the end of the 1991 war, but his story didn’t end there. In 2001 the Navy changed his status from KIA to missing in action (MIA), citing “additional information.”
This put a man dead for over a decade smack into the middle of the Bush Administration’s campaign for war. In March 2002 the National Review ran an article arguing that Speicher’s recovery should be an “integral part” of US policy toward Iraq. That same month Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz claimed to have “hard evidence” Speicher was alive and in Iraqi custody. The claim was denied by the Iraqi government, but Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he didn’t believe anything that government said.
Though the war he fought and died in had been over for over a decade, Speicher had become a key part of the propaganda battle to support the US invasion. Indeed just two months before US troops invaded and occupied the nation, Defense Department officials leaked an intelligence report that claimed he was alive and had been repeatedly moved by the Hussein government.
Speicher’s usefulness as an excuse to invade was over as soon as American boots hit the ground in March 2003, and so did administration claims about his status. It was only three months later that Secretary Rumsfeld, when pressed on Speicher’s fate, conceded that “nothing had turned up” from the invasion. The final confirmation of that had to wait until today, though 132,000 US troops remain in Iraqi territory, still fighting the war, and officials are left with one fewer excuse for it."
An 18 Year Old Mystery Is Solved and Another Piece of the Case for War Crumbles
"On January 17, 1991, Navy Lt. Commander Michael Speicher was shot down over the Iraqi desert, apparently by an Iraqi Air Force aircraft. The 18 year mystery of what happened to him after that is finally solved today, as his remains were found at the crash site.
Speicher, who continued to receive promotions after his death rising all the way to the rank of captain, was declared killed in action (KIA) at the end of the 1991 war, but his story didn’t end there. In 2001 the Navy changed his status from KIA to missing in action (MIA), citing “additional information.”
This put a man dead for over a decade smack into the middle of the Bush Administration’s campaign for war. In March 2002 the National Review ran an article arguing that Speicher’s recovery should be an “integral part” of US policy toward Iraq. That same month Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz claimed to have “hard evidence” Speicher was alive and in Iraqi custody. The claim was denied by the Iraqi government, but Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he didn’t believe anything that government said.
Though the war he fought and died in had been over for over a decade, Speicher had become a key part of the propaganda battle to support the US invasion. Indeed just two months before US troops invaded and occupied the nation, Defense Department officials leaked an intelligence report that claimed he was alive and had been repeatedly moved by the Hussein government.
Speicher’s usefulness as an excuse to invade was over as soon as American boots hit the ground in March 2003, and so did administration claims about his status. It was only three months later that Secretary Rumsfeld, when pressed on Speicher’s fate, conceded that “nothing had turned up” from the invasion. The final confirmation of that had to wait until today, though 132,000 US troops remain in Iraqi territory, still fighting the war, and officials are left with one fewer excuse for it."
posted by nolocontendere at 8:11 PM
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Donald Rumsfeld said he didn’t believe anything that government said
Same to yours, Rummy. What a huge bunch of hypocritical liars your gang turned out to be.
The only thing they wanted was to occupy the country. Crocodile tears for this dead airman was part of their act.
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