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5.13.2005

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

America's most important foreign policy venture is teetering on the edge of civil war, and new evidence shows the Bush administration likely fixed intelligence to justify war. But you might not have heard much about it. Though print media outlets have provided some coverage of the major stories in recent weeks, television media – still the primary source of news for most Americans – is failing miserably. America is being kept in the dark.

THE MEMO THEY WON'T DISCUSS: Last week, a British newspaper released top-secret documents suggesting that "President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by July 2002 to invade Iraq."

In one memo from July '02, Britain's top intelligence official states that "he had returned from Washington, where there had been a 'perceptible shift in attitude. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and [weapons of mass destruction]. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy.'

The memo seemed to provide powerful new evidence that the Bush administration was willing to consciously manipulate intelligence to push forward its invasion plans. Since its release, however, the U.S. press has stayed silent. Days after its release, Salon columnist Joe Conason asked, "Are Americans so jaded about the deceptions perpetrated by our own government to lead us into war in Iraq that we are no longer interested in fresh and damning evidence of those lies?

Or are the editors and producers who oversee the American news industry simply too timid to report that proof on the evening broadcasts and front pages?" According to media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, "As far as the media are concerned, the answer to Conason's second question would seem to be yes."

THE CARNAGE THEY WON'T COVER: But according to ABC News, our television media simply doesn't care.

The network's morning briefing yesterday noted, "We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraq is truly staggering. And/but we are sort of resigned to the Notion that it simply isn't going to break through to American news organizations, or, for the most part, Americans.... What is hands down the biggest story every day in the world will get almost no coverage."

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=100480&lftnav=progressreport#2

|| doug, 13:02

3 Comments:

What a powerful photo. Thanks for all the links as well.
Blogger Mary, at 13/5/05 13:36  
Yeah, but you don't hear about this either:

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Mass+grave+found+in+Iraq&id=72379

Paul.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 13/5/05 14:10  
Paul -

Thanks for the link. Tragic . . . simply tragic.

But oppression and genocide were not the justifications given for this senseless and illegal war.

If those were reasons enough to invade countries, we would be in Eastern China, Korea, and all over Africa (especially the Sudan . . . don't get me started on that one).

Unfortunately we are not in the 'nice guy' business.

There were a dozen lies and 'justifications' for attacking Iraq, helping it's citizens was the last reason thrown against the wall and the only that stuck the rest were unfounded manipulations of 'data'.

Iraq was not an international terroristic threat and had nothing to do with the tragedy of 9/11. Nothing.

I appreciate your efforts to bring balance when those around you seem to be 'off'. I need that even when I don't think so. I do appreciate that about you, balance is key.

Unfortunately, there is no balance in this war, no matter how hard anyone may try to create it.

This war was senseless and avoidable. Pride and greed took front seat and has steered this whole thing.

May God have mercy on us.
Blogger doug, at 13/5/05 15:22  

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