[Media-watch] Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski

[Mark and Andrea Priestley]

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color=#0000ff>With reference to the media alerts tonight, my offering. Please 
feel free to plagiarise this letter. Incidently, Paxman does normally 
reply. 
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Dear 
Jeremy
I was pleasantly 
surprised last night to hear Zbigniew Brzezinski calling UK and US policy on 
Iraq into question. It is not often in these times that you hear someone with 
his 'hawkish' credentials pouring cold water on the accepted wisdom that Iraq 
needs to be attacked. In particular he stated that the current resolution 
is merely a pretext for a war. 
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  <FONT 
  face="Comic Sans MS">'When I look at the 6 points, 2 of 
  them strike me as utterly frivolous... The first one that Saddam has to appear 
  on television and speak in Arabic and so forth.  That's clearly designed 
  to humiliate and to provoke a negative reaction.  And the second one 
  which is that he has to promise to destroy mobile production facilities for 
  biological weapons.  Something that he denies having.  Something 
  that the Inspectors have not located and something which neither the UK nor 
  the US have produced any evidence that they 
  exist.'
Why then 
did you not make more of this? Why dismiss his comments as abruptly as you did? 
A senior and credible US figure, lucidly stating arguments which have been 
put forward by opponents of the war, and which until now have not received the 
media coverage they deserve, is surely worthy of more 
attention.
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As I have 
pointed out to the BBC before, there is compelling evidence against Iraq 
possessing weapons of mass destruction (UNSCOM reports;  the recently 
emerged transcripts of interviews with Hussein Kamel [<A 
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size=3>http://middleeastreference.org.uk/kamel.html]; and a recent 
dossier produced by Dr Glen Rangwala - found at <FONT 
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href="http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweapons.html">http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweapons.html 
). In contrast the evidence produced to support 
war has been flimsy, reliant on assertion, and in some cases 
downright risible (e.g.the plagiarised UK dossier). It only retains its 
credibility because the media continues to assert it as fact while ignoring the 
former evidence. The Hussein Kamel transcript is a case in point; this briefly 
emerged on Today at 6.45 in the morning, and then disappeared. It never surfaced 
on Newsnight.
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I call 
upon you to give more credence to the views expressed by those who oppose this 
war. In particular I ask you to fully investigate the claims made by Mr. 
Brzezinski.
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Your 
sincerely,
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Mark 
Priestley