There
are strong echoes of the runup to the 2003 Iraq War coming from Washington City
right now:
US Secretary of
State, Mike Pompeo revealed Wednesday that China has denied US scientists
permission to enter the Wuhan Institute of Virology in order to investigate the
possibility that the coronavirus originated there.
“The Chinese
government hasn’t permitted American scientists to go into China, to go into
not only the Wuhan lab but wherever it needs to go to learn about this virus,
to learn about its origins,” Pompeo told Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“Look, we know it
began in Wuhan, but we need to figure this out. There’s an ongoing pandemic. We
still don’t have the transparency and openness we need in China.” Pompeo urged.
. . .
In a further
press briefing Thursday, Pompeo reiterated that the US must be allowed
access to Chinese labs in order to prevent further outbreaks.
--Steve Watson, https://www.prisonplanet.com/pompeo-china-has-denied-us-permission-to-enter-wuhan-lab.html
This
rhetoric is no different from that used to justify the 2003 bombing and occupation
of Iraq (which still has not ended after 17 years): ‘Saddam Hussein won’t allow weapons
inspectors to verify he has no WMD’, folks were saying in the Bush administration,
‘so we have no choice but to bomb the daylights out of them with a “coalition
of the willing” ’. We are now only a few
failed threats and sanctions away from going down the same road with
China. May God prevent it!
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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