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4 Reasons - Why confession is so skeptical

Friday, 16 March 2007

Excerpt from from an article which Don Williams of OPED News writes.

Here are four reasons why this highly publicized confession is so skeptical -

1. Torture. In his military hearing transcript, Khalid Shaikh um… Mohammed, alludes to torture. I’m sure you know I have big problems with torture. We know from press reports (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9991919/site/newsweek) that Shaykh Ibn al-Libi told a pack of whoppers, while being tortured, that made it into Colin Powell’s 2003 speech to the United Nations before we invaded Iraq.

2. Secrecy. Every page of the classified document hints at dark mysteries that may never make it into the public record. We have no way of confirming anything Khalid had to say. He disputes owning the computer, for instance, and we don’t see a chain of evidence in the government transcript linking that hard drive to him.

3. Lack of an oath. In one of Mohammed’s longest speeches in the transcript he goes into great detail about why he will not swear to telling the truth in American courts.

4. Consider the source. It was the Pentagon who told us pro footballer Pat Tillman went down with guns ablazin’ in Afghanistan, when in fact he was killed by so-called friendly fire. And wasn’t it the Pentagon who suggested Jessica Lynch had to be rescued commando style from a hospital where she’d been taken after fighting heroically to defend her convoy in Iraq? Come to think of it, the Bush Administration has lied about so much that only an idiot would take anything uttered by most anyone associated with it at face value.

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