POINT OF VIEW. Cont'd.
Stephen Hess from the Brookings Institution says: ?Everyone who opens the
mouth, makes mistakes, and we pardon them.¦ He adds that some of the
exaggerations pronounced by George W. Bush are just accidental mistakes, but
what is more alarming, some of them seem to be well considered. The president
has an obligation to speak correctly about politics, prospective wars and
about enemies of the country.
Bush-s high politics is saturated with lies; many facts are far-fetched so
convincingly that people even start believing these facts. Let-s get back to
Iraq. At a meeting with British Prime Minister Anthony Blair in Camp David on
September 7 George W. Bush told journalists: ?I want to mention that when
UNMOVIC inspectors got to Iraq for the first time, they were finally denied
access; at that, the IAEA reported that Iraq was six months away from
developing weapons of mass destruction. I don-t know what other evidence we
need.
Another considered lie invented by the US president is a missile shield.
The IAEA actually issued a report in 1998, approximately at the time when the
inspectors were not allowed to Iraq last time, but the report contained no
resolutions of this kind. It said: ?Based on reliable information, the IAEA
discovered no evidence of Iraq-s success in development of nuclear weapons, no
evidence of Iraq-s capabilities for weapons development or evidence proving
that Iraq illegally obtained nuclear materials for weapons development.¦ It
was also reported that Iraq had been 24 months away from developing weapons of
mass destruction before the 1991 Gulf War. The White House declared that
George W. Bush was ?not correct¦ with the statement, as it was not the IAEA,
but the US Intelligence that was the source of the information. It might be
called a trivial detail, but the US-s large-scale politics is based upon such
details.
Another considered lie invented by the US president is a missile shield. In
December 2002, President Bush declared that the USA would create the first
effective system of anti-missile defense in 2004 already. This is the most
important promise concerning national security that had been made during the
pre-election campaign. The president of America decided to keep the promise
because of threats from such countries as North Korea, and also because of the
increasing danger of an alliance to be made up by those terrorist groups and
countries that have weapons capable to reach the USA. Until recently, eight
tests of an anti-missile defense system were held. During the tests, a missile
launched in California was to intercept and liquidate a missile launched by
the enemy from an island in the Pacific Ocean. Three of the tests failed, but
the White House declared that data obtained during the test were encouraging
for realization of a project at the cost of not less than 60 billion dollars.
The company Raytheon got the order for creation of a nuclear shield, and
Lincoln Laboratory, a structure of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
financed from the federal funds, worked on scientific substantiation of the
project and supported it. However, Professor Postol from the same institution
sticks to a different opinion. In his words, results of the tests were forged
in order to create an impression that the system performed much better than it
actually did in fact. The scholar said that together with a group of
scientists he had sent a letter to the Congress to say that interceptor
missiles couldn-t distinguish real missiles from abstractive ones. If the
scientists are right, enemies can easily deliver a blow against the USA with
the help of real carriers with abstractive missiles, and this is not a
fantasy. The order for making sensor systems responsible for defining targets
was given to the company Twr. Despite the fact that the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology confirmed effectiveness of the systems, Twr staffer
Nira Schwarz blamed the leadership of the company of data manipulation. La
Stampa reports, the US Congress-s General Accounting Office confirmed the
credibility of claims laid by Schwarz.
Dmitry Litvinovich.
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