Tuesday, February 28, 2006

"German Intelligence Gave U.S. Iraqi Defense Plan, Report Says". There are several things about this report. First: you have to remember that the German chancellor Schroder launched his campaign on an anti-war stance. So he had lied to his own people in that regard. Then you read this defense by the German government: "In a report released Thursday, German officials said much of the assistance was restricted to identifying civilian sites so they would not be attacked by mistake." But then you read this: "On Thursday, the German government released a new report that acknowledged that German agents had provided some intelligence but suggested it was very limited. The 90-page report is the public version of a much longer classified account. The public report, for example, stated that the agents provided information on "civilian protected or other humanitarian sites, such as Synagogues and Torah rolls and the possible locations of missing U.S. pilots." Don't you like this definition of "civilian sites" What about the Iraqi population? They were not civilian sites that the German government was keen on protecting? So the Torah rolls were more important to protect than the Iraqi civilian population? And let us not forget the deceptive Arab regimes who say one thing to their own people and do something else: "Egypt and Saudi Arabia, for example, provided more help than they have disclosed. Egypt gave access for refueling planes, while Saudi Arabia allowed American special operations forces to initiate attacks from its territory, United States military officials say."