Reply #16: How Plagiarism helped take us to war in Iraq.

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How Plagiarism helped take us to war in Iraq.

Plagiarism.. is a serious matter,..it helped take us to war..Plagiarism is a deception..it is a lie.

and it is important to every teacher in this country
and to every educational institution in this nation and others...


you can try to poo poo plagiarism..but it won't wash with me..it is deception..clear and simple..it is stealing..plain and simple..and we have proof positive of how plagiarism has killed...look at the Iraq war.



and it is something we all should be wary of since Colin Powell helped take us to war based on Plagarism.

I take plagiarism very seriously ..so much so that i have kept these articles in my files ever since...yes Colin Powell plagiarised a College guys dissertation paper to help take us into war....remember when he sat In the UN and televisions all over the world were on Colin Powell and we as a nation and the worlds people stopped everything and watched him give his speech...

well his so called facts.. were plagiarised.

Plagiarism is a serious matter! 4000 dead soldiers and over 1 million dead Iraqi's can attest to that.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4601552-103690,0 ...


Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier
Plagiarism row casts shadow over No 10's case against Saddam

Michael White, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday February 8, 2003

Guardian

Downing Street yesterday apologised for its failure to acknowledge that much of its latest dossier on Iraq was lifted from academic sources, as the affair threatened to further undermine confidence in the government's case for disarming Saddam Hussein.
MPs and anti-war groups were quick to protest that other features of Whitehall's information campaign are suspect at a time when MI6 and other intelligence agencies are privately complaining at the way No 10 has been over-egging intelligence material on Iraq.

It emerged yesterday that the dossier issued last week - later found to include a plagiarised section written by an American PhD student - was compiled by mid-level officials in Alastair Campbell's Downing Street communications department with only cursory approval from intelligence or even Foreign Office sources.

Though it now appears to have been a journalistic cut and paste job rather than high-grade intelligence analysis, the dossier ended up being cited approvingly on worldwide TV by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, when he addressed the UN security council on Wednesday.




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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4600667-103550,0 ...

UK war dossier a sham, say experts
British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles

Michael White and Brian Whitaker
Friday February 7, 2003

Guardian

Downing Street was last night plunged into acute international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the British government's latest dossier on Iraq - allegedly based on "intelligence material" - were taken from published academic articles, some of them several years old.
Amid charges of "scandalous" plagiarism on the night when Tony Blair attempted to rally support for the US-led campaign against Saddam Hussein, Whitehall's dismay was compounded by the knowledge that the disputed document was singled out for praise by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, in his speech to the UN security council on Wednesday.

Citing the British dossier, entitled Iraq - its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation in front of a worldwide television audience Mr Powell said: "I would call my colleagues' attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed... which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities."




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