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Don't talk about the war

Tonight we came across an interesting review of the movie "Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War" by a young writer named Joshua Tanzer. He wrote:

For a brief, artlessly spliced series of talking-head quotes, this documentary gives a remarkably thorough demolition of the Bush administration's concocted case against Iraq. Much of this information should have been obvious to any careful newspaper reader, even as the press acclaimed Secretary of State Colin Powell's flimsy presentation to the U.N. in February and President Bush's bandying of empty innuendos before Congress in January and March. In each case, what should have been clear was the administration's lack of concrete information and, judging by the well-publicized dissension in the intelligence agencies, the lack of confidence in the information being put forth.

And yet, Americans are still misinformed about basic, undisputed facts about the Iraq War. Even leading Democrats such as John Kerry — who as a once-brave Vietnam War hero/dissident should have recognized presidential duplicity when he heard it — still try to excuse their votes for the war with the complaint that they were lied to. So the information in this film clearly bears repeating.

Moreover, it does the country a huge service by holding administration officials' statements up to reality checks by intelligence and foreign-service professionals with decades of experience. Untruths that may have gone unchallenged on the nightly news are effectively disposed of here...

We have to wonder whether Joshua Tanzer included this article in his job application when he recently lined up a new gig.

Tanzer is now the webmaster for JudithMiller.org.

UPDATE: Fixed spelling...jeez! Meanwhile, several people have wondered why the site is judithmiller.org. We were wondering that, too. Given her role in the Iraq war, shouldn't it be judithmiller.gov?
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