The Bush administration has attributed the bulk of the
Iraqi resistance to a character named "Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi." There are
many people asking the legitimate question, does Zarqawi even exist?
Given the credibility of Bush and company -- the people who brought us
phantom weapons of mass destruction, false links between Saddam and bin
Laden, forged uranium documents, and a stack of other untruths -- there
is little reason to accept Bush's super-boogeyman on faith alone. As
pointed out in the Asia Times (Oct. 15, 2004): "Not a single source,
anywhere, claims to have actually seen ?Zarqawi' since late 2001 in
Afghanistan. Ask the Pentagon. Ask the CIA. Ask the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. No one, on the record, is able to independently verify
that ?Zarqawi' actually exists." Mainstream US corporate media has not
challenged the administration on this point, nor on most of the other
lies, distortions, omissions or obvious international crimes they have
committed. Rather Reuters, ABC, and Washington Post have uncritically
raised the phantom warrior to the status of a "Zarqawi movement." Never
mind they haven't made the case for Zarqawi the person, alive and
breathing. [more]
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