During the same press conference that Bush accepted personal responsibility for everything he says he boldly asserted WMD will be found. He said this knowing that to this date, not one scientist has supported the belief. This suggests a man who has no remorse for passing on faulty intelligence and instead will continue to buy ‘good press’ for his beleaguered administration by spinning whatever information they’ve gathered.
Adding to suspicions of his insincerity are the methods by which these scientists are being gathered and held.
The article reports arrests made after scientists initially offered to come in voluntarily, people being held incommunicado, and signs these scientists are being held in solitary confinement as well.
Amir Saadi, ‘Iraq’s 65-year-old chief liaison with United Nations weapons inspectors since last year’, has been detained over three months now, his status ‘yet to be determined’;
His wife said she suspects her husband is being held out of sight because “he is telling the truth. . . . They have realized there are no weapons of mass destruction and the quagmire they have created. They want to hold someone as a scapegoat.”
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