What ABCNNBCBSAFixedNoiseNutwork don't cover about Iraq.

[Octafish]

The Truth. And the first fact is Bush lied America into war. That makes Corporate McPravda guilty of treason, too.

[BootinUp]

1. With at least one notable exception

The Nightline broadcast that was not shown by some affiliates, naming all the soldiers lost in 2004.

But your point is well taken.

[Octafish]

2. Almost 3,000 of America's finest men and women have given their lives for a lie.

There were no WMDs.
Iraq was no threat to the USA.
Saddam was installed by the CIA.

Yet all we hear about is a misstatement by JK.
After Kerry came back from Vietnam a hero, he asked Congress to stop the war there ASAP because he didn't want any more people to die for a "mistake."
Vietnam, too, was based on a lie.

The War to Deceive America Into War -- And the War to Cover Up the Deception

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Before America went to war with Afghanistan, another war was underway -- against its own people: the war to deceive America into attacking Iraq. This is no longer a theory or conjecture; it is a documented fact.

Those in the Mainstream Media, including the New York Times and Washington Post, who choose to ignore this reality, or couch it in qualifying terms (such as "unproven assertions") are no longer trying to debunk a conspiracy, because the deliberate deception that forced America into war with Iraq is not a conspiracy theory.

SNIP...

Consider just some of the following established facts regarding the Bush administration's orchestrated propaganda campaign to deceive America into War:


1) A 2002 (Downing Street) memo is released in Britain in May of 2005 that documents that Blair thought that he had no choice but to go to war because the Bush administration said that it was "going to fix" intelligence to start one.

2) In early June of 2005, a British paper reveals that the U.S. and U.K. flew sorties over Iraq in 2002 to provoke Saddam Hussein and destroy his anti-aircraft infrastructure in preparation for the war. Congressman John Conyers calls this the smoking bullet in the smoking gun.

3) All the Bushevik warnings of WMDs are proven false -- all of them. Not a single WMD was found.

4) Dick Cheney lurked around the CIA prior to the Iraq War putting pressure on analysts to "fix" the data.

5) The analysts who came up with the false allegations that "aluminum tubes" were being used for nuclear enrichment story were promoted by the Bush Administration and given bonuses.

6) Richard Clarke says that Bush personally took him aside and told him to make the facts work for a war with Iraq.

7) Former Secretary of the Treasury O'Neill wrote in his memoirs that Bush was out to get Iraq from the moment he was sworn in.

8) The PNAC (Project for the New American Century) plea to invade Iraq was written in the late 90s, primarily by Bush Neo-cons who guided us into the war.

9) The Bush Administration outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative specializing in -- ironically and tragically -- tracking the illicit sale and movement of Weapons of Mass Destruction because her courageous husband, Joe Wilson, exposed the Niger documents as a fraud. Thus, the Bush Administration put the national security at risk regarding WMDs to seek vengeance on someone for exposing their phony war based on a lie about WMDs.

10) This past weekend, it was revealed that John Bolton had a U.N. official fired for trying to seek a peaceful way out of the Iraq War, in regards to Iraq's compliance with chemical weapons accords.

11) After 9/11, Rumsfeld is quoted as saying that the U.S. would take Saddam and all of "them" out.

12) Advanced forces were sent into Iraq before the war had even started.

13) Rumsfeld set up a Pentagon psy-ops operation to create PR for going to war with Iraq. (He claimed to have closed it down, but he never did.)

14) The Chalabi-Judith Miller-Cheney axis of information was used to claim that created "factoids" were truths, when they were just propaganda. (The New York Times "apologized" for this, but made no changes in its coverage, including keeping Miller on and standing up for her, even though she published lies from a proxy Bush Administration anonymous source.)

15) The Bush Administration, according to various polls, conducted a successful misinformation campaign to make Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was partly responsible for 9/11 and that the hijackers were Iraqi.


CONTINUED...

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/06/edi05050.html

Original DU thread on this subject: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2501729

[BootinUp]

3. Heres another parallel

both Nam and Iraq were the result of fundamental misunderstandings of the society we thought we were helping.

[Octafish]

5. The experts lied to the boss in both cases.

Bush and LBJ both believed what they were told.

In JFK's case, no. He remembered getting lied to during the Bay of Pigs.


A rumination on the subject:

JFK Would NEVER Have Fallen for Phony INTEL!>

[Binka]

6. They Are Pressuring Ben To Go Back In 2007 Even With His PTSD

Hasn't he given enough already? Bastards!

[KharmaTrain]

4. So "What's The Big Deal"...

I heard some lady call Washington Journal this morning and spew the horseshit about how 43,000 people die in traffic accidents and this number died of lung disease and blah blah blah...and that Americans are scared of a "little blood". Not a word of compassion for the men and women who died under the false pretenses of preventing A-rabs from flying airplanes into her pretty little pointed head...not a word of respect, either. And this person then goes on to trash Kerry as being a "traitor".

Beam me up!

The most obscene story of the day is how there's a plan to rethink this fiasco...at least it's something...and this regime is sitting for two months on its findings while the bloodletting increaes. I'm not sure anyone saw Lara Logan's story from Al Anbar Province yesterday...where a base our troops trained Iraqis to run fell to "insurgents" in less than a week.

The term quagmire is no longer operative here...meat grinder is.

Thank you for putting up the picture and reminding the true supporters of our troops of the most precious cost of this ugly war.

[Octafish]

7. Didn't hear that call. Have heard that meme.

For the weak-minded Bush supporter, the "more people are killed in traffic accidents each year" canard makes the unbearable reality palatable. Like their monkey Führer, they are traitors to the United States.

Another BUSH joke the Press Corpse has forgotten:

"You know, when I was one time campaigning in Chicago, a reporter said, 'Would you ever have a deficit?' I said, 'I can't imagine it, but there would be one if we had a war, or a national emergency, or a recession.' Never did I dream we'd get the trifecta." —Houston, Texas, June 14, 2002 (There is no evidence Bush ever made any such statement, despite recounting the trifecta line repeatedly in 2002. A search by the Washington Post revealed that the three caveats were brought up before the 2000 campaign — by Al Gore.)

SOURCE: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushdumbquotes2.htm

You are absolutely correct, KharmaTrain. The reality is more than half-a million Americans, Iraqis and other innocent people have died for Bush's big lie. Thank you for caring.

[KharmaTrain]

8. We'll Be The Ones Who Remember, They'll Rewrite History

Right now VA Hospitals are filled with the real victims of this insane war for profit. These people were forunate to be saved from injuries that would have been left on the battlefields in past wars, but now will be walking our streets and haunting their minds for decades to come. The amount of PTSD that is mounting on these overtaxed forces is one of the biggest cover-ups around. And who will be there after the war fades...at least from the headlines...it never will for thousands of young men and women. I see how this affected Vietnam vets...and sadly still do when I see them homeless and still fighting the battle of Khe Sahn.

Meanwhile the right wing...the same asshats who tore this country apart during Vietnam...rewrote the history of that war that now includes sliming any real war hero and glorifying the myth that he was responsible for losing a war that Walter Cronkite had admitted was lost 4 years earlier.

The saving grace...or I hope...is how the political landscape of Vietnam had a major influence in my becoming a lifelong Democrat, that I'm seeing the same affect with Iraq on my children.

Cheers and thank-you.