Iraq quagmire: not an Intelligence failure but orchestrated Press Failure

[chomskysright]

This is elsewhere on DU but its such a great site that I wanted to kick it some more.


http://100777.com/node/576


"It was not bad intelligence" that lead to the quagmire in Iraq, "It was an orchestrated effort began before the war" that was designed to mislead the public and the world. Gardiner's research lead him to conclude that the US and Britain had conspired at the highest levels to plant "stories of strategic influence" that were known to be false. ....

Misleading via Innuendo
Time and again, US reporters accepted the CIC news leaks without question. Among the many examples that Gardiner documented was the use of the "anthrax scare" to promote the administration's pre-existing plan to attack Iraq.

[rodeodance]

1. lazy 'journalism'