39 years ago this month the 'Torrey Canyon', the first of the big supertankers carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of oil struck Pollard's Rock between the Scilly Isles and Land's End, killing most of marine life along the British and French coasts. It's quite fitting a bigger disaster from the oil industry now reaches Liverpool.


"But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt." - Condoleezza Rice, CNN Late Edition, 29 July 2001


"There is no mystery to voluntary disarmament. Countries that decide to disarm lead inspectors to weapons and production sites, answer questions before they are asked, state publicly and often the intention to disarm and urge their citizens to cooperate. " - Condoleezza Rice, New York Times, January 23, 2003


"certain to this day that this regime was a threat, that it was pursuing a nuclear weapon, that it had biological and chemical weapons, that it had used them."- Condoleezza Rice, 7th August 2003


Rice on Iraq: "This War Came To Us, Not The Other Way Around"
In Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made a surprise visit to Baghdad Sunday. During her top-secret trip Rice claimed the U.S. invasion of Iraq was not a preemptive attack. She said "this war came to us, not the other way around." Rice vowed the U.S. would remain in Iraq until Iraq can "defend itself." She also warned Syria that it is "standing in the way of the Iraqi people's desire for peace."  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1329238

Watch and weep.

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