DISINFORMATION

-Revealed: the secret cabal which spun for Blair (Neil Mackay, 08 June 2003, Sunday Herald)

BRITAIN ran a covert 'dirty tricks' operation designed specifically to produce misleading intelligence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction to give the UK a justifiable excuse to wage war on Iraq.

Operation Rockingham, established by the Defence Intelligence Staff within the Ministry of Defence in 1991, was set up to 'cherry-pick' intelligence proving an active Iraqi WMD programme and to ignore and quash intelligence which indicated that Saddam's stockpiles had been destroyed or wound down.

The existence of Operation Rockingham has been confirmed by Scott Ritter...

Suffice it to say, Mr. Ritter is a thoroughly discredited source. Here he is on the children's prison that we liberated:

"The prison in question was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children--toddlers up to pre-adolescents--whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace."

How are we supposed to take seriously someone who has publicly admitted their willingness to recast the truth in Saddam's favor? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2003 7:02 AM