When will someone in the media point out Bush's BIGGEST Iraq lie:

[tgnyc]

he said today, for like the 25th time, that Saddam didn't let the weapons inspectors in and that he didn't disarm, and that's why the US invaded Iraq. This is so obviously and incontrovertably false, yet every time he says this, the news media just let it go without remark. WTF? Am I in the Twilight Zone, or what?

[MadMaddie]

1. I agree...that is the most blatent lie....

The inspectors were there and the US told them to leave!!!


Helen is the only reporter with guts to ask a question....but unfortunately after she asks her hard hitting question they don't call on her again!!!

[ixion]

2. they let so many LIES like this go by w/o a whimper

it's one of the reasons I stopped watching cable news. I got really tired of yelling at the television.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Welcome to the Twilight Zone, tgnyc ...

... too bad we're getting these lousy scripts from Bush and the media, instead of the believable stuff we got from Rod Serling and HIS group of writers.

[valerief]

4. Feels like it

Truth is but a commodity, reality an option.

[Quakerfriend]

5. Yes, I wish they would. He always follows this by saying that

"And, we talked to the UN" and bla, bla, bla- The UN did not condone this pre-emptive war!

[Ksec]

6. Twilight Zone indeed

Do not question, its unamerican to question the president. If you ask him such questions you will never be called on again to ask other questions. Ask Helen Thomas who was banned for 3 years because she dared question him .

Besides that our media has no balls and they work for the people who put him in office.

[kenny blankenship]

7. It's amazing.

In fact sometimes you wonder, do these jokers even read their own and each others' copy? Or maybe it's just that they have no memory.
Hussein let the inspectors in, the Iraqi military was disarmed of weapons prohibited to it, we had no authorization to do what we've done, and Bush was planning to start a war with Iraq from the very start of his Presidency. (9/11 didn't change his thinking as he claims, indeed it may have actually delayed his invasion of Iraq because it obliged him to go to Afghanistan first.)

[Gabi Hayes]

8. so glad you put this up....saved me the trouble....check this

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0722-10.htm

there are quite a few others like this article, but it hits the main points:

media's TOTAL ignorance of this huge, provable lie, and in the one instance where it was brought up, the obsequious softpedaling/explication....Bush just being Bush!

media's total lack of followup on this, despite his repeating it more than once.

they just let him totally let him get away with it

so, of course, did Kerry during the campaign a year later

it's the most easily provable lie Bush has told, and the one for which there IS no reasonable explanation

and it's a HUGH one, one which he made a centerpiece of his bogus justification for violating the Geneva Convention, the UN charter, Nuremburg (all according to Helen Thomas, on her appearance with Leslie B a few minutes ago)


It has been exactly one week since the Washington Post ran a page one story quoting U.S. President George W. Bush as saying that the reason the U.S., "along with other nations,'' invaded Iraq was because its brutal vicious dictator would not permit any weapons inspections.
Here is the quote, from Bush's news conference with U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan, which CNN ran live last Monday. (The italicized emphasis is mine.)

Asked about those infamous 16 words in his State of the Union Address about Iraq shopping in Niger for yellowcake uranium, the leader of the free world replied: "The larger point is and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power ..."

So yes kids! We were all hallucinating when we watched news footage of reporters chasing U.N. weapons inspectors around Iraq last winter. Those were but voices in our collective head when we heard pleas from the likes of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and former weapons inspector Scott Ritter to allow the digging around to continue. And we must have all swallowed a giant tab of yellowcake when we read the news of U.N. weapons inspectors scrambling to beat a path out of Baghdad on the eve of the Shock & Awe bombing campaign.

So ask yourself: How come the commander-in-chief shoots from the lip once again and nobody is talking about it? Even one of the journalists who originally reported Bush's explanation, The Post's Dana Milbank, soft-peddled it in his story co-written a week ago with Dana Priest.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Thanks for the link

Once again, The Toronto Star is reporting on the paucity of apparel on the Chimperor.

[donkeyotay]

9. It is such an obvious lie, and they let him tell it over and over

and collect their checks. Maybe it's just so they can keep on working, or maybe they're complicit. But it's not you. You remember right. We kicked the UN out. Bush was in a big hurry cuz summer was coming.

[Canuckistanian]

10. I've been hammering on this point for a year now

I thought it was the most damning thing he ever said and...... crickets from the media.

Real, incontrovertible proof that he lies his ass off, easily disproven (ever heard of UNPROFOR?) and proof that he really doesn't care WHY the Iraq war was started.

[tgnyc]

14. I agree with Al Franken on this one: he thinks the reporters just think:

"We already know he doesn't know anything. Let's not humiliate him when he makes a painfully obvious gaffe. It'll just look like piling on."

[mzmolly]

11. Just as soon as they remind * that the war was not about WMD's

but about a so called imminent threat posed by Saddam, who was linked to Al Qaida and developing "nukular" weapons.

Here is a photo of weapons inspectors who Saddam allowed in and Bush kicked out:


U.S advises weapons inspectors to leave Iraq 3/17/2003

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — In the clearest sign yet that war with Iraq is imminent, the United States has advised U.N. weapons inspectors to begin pulling out of Baghdad, the U.N. nuclear agency chief said Monday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-17-inspectors-iraq_x.htm

[mmonk]

12. Most media people

can't. Their conglomerate overlords are bush supporters. If they push the truth enough, they will be removed from their jobs.

[skypilot]

15. Actually someone should remind them...

...that in the end the reason the administration decided to invade was because Saddam wouldn't leave the country. It went from "disarm", to "let the weapons inspectors" in, back to "disarm" and finally "leave Iraq within 48 hours". I've always found that rather interesting, especially considering that some folks still think that Saddam smuggled his weapons out of the country. That would mean that the WMDs got a headstart out of the country and then Bush offered to give Saddam a headstart as well. Very smart.