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isn't that the film MI6 based their fake iraq WMDs dossier on
by _dain_ 4y ago
isn't that the film MI6 based their fake iraq WMDs dossier on
- eru 4y ago'The Rock' came out in 1996. Which dossier are you talking about?
- gs17 4y ago2002 according to https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/08/it-was-such-obvious-bullshit-the-rock-writer-shocked-film-may-have-inspired-false-wmd-intelligence https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jul/08/it-was-such-obv...
- eru 4y agoOh, I misread _dain_'s comment. I thought they said The Rock was based on the dossier. Obviously, they meant it the other way round. I remember the official reasons for attacking Iraq back then being obvious bullshit. But that might have just been a function of living in Germany where the media was against the war (because the German public was a against the war), so the media would give that impression anyway.
- ncmncm 4y agoYes, Hans Blix, the UN inspector who visited the supposed labs well before the invasion, openly reported it was all bullshit. Even the New York Times, which was a huge invasion booster, ran that story. On page 18. Never forget, Thomas Friedman was the most rabid invasion advocate at the NYT. Never doubt that all of these people, and Colin Powell, knew all about Hans Blix's reports.
- redanddead 4y agoThat's insane. What happened in the 2000s? It's like people are just waking up from a bad hangover