This story should shut the Dems up with their, “Where are the weapons of mass destruction?” battle cry. But, we all know it won’t. Idiots!
washingtonpost.com
It Wasn’t Just Miller’s StoryBy Robert Kagan
Tuesday, October 25, 2005; A21The Judith Miller-Valerie Plame-Scooter Libby imbroglio is being reduced to a simple narrative about the origins of the Iraq war. Miller, the story goes, was an anti-Saddam Hussein, weapons-of-mass-destruction-hunting zealot and was either an eager participant or an unwitting dupe in a campaign by Bush administration officials and Iraqi exiles to justify the invasion. The New York Times now characterizes the affair as “just one skirmish in the continuing battle over the Bush administration’s justification for the war in Iraq.” Miller may be “best known for her role in a series of Times articles in 2002 and 2003 that strongly suggested Saddam Hussein already had or was acquiring an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.” According to the Times’s critique, she credulously reported information passed on by “a circle of Iraqi informants, defectors and exiles bent on ‘regime change’ in Iraq,” which was then “eagerly confirmed by United States officials convinced of the need to intervene in Iraq.” Many critics outside the Times suggest that Miller’s eagerness to publish the Bush administration’s line was the primary reason Americans went to war. The Times itself is edging closer to this version of events.
There is a big problem with this simple narrative. It is that the Times, along with The Post and other news organizations, ran many alarming stories about Iraq’s weapons programs before the election of George W. Bush. A quick search through the Times archives before 2001 produces such headlines as “Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say”(November 1998), “U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production of Chemical Weapons in Sudan”(August 1998), “Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort” (February 2000), “Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration” (February 2000), “Flight Tests Show Iraq Has Resumed a Missile Program” (July 2000). (A somewhat shorter list can be compiled from The Post’s archives, including a September 1998 headline: “Iraqi Work Toward A-Bomb Reported.”) The Times stories were written by Barbara Crossette, Tim Weiner and Steven Lee Myers; Miller shared a byline on one.
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Being stuck on stupid, the libs can’t help themselves; their brains are about as responsive as a T-34 tank in quick sand. When they find a horse they like they beat it long after it’s turned into pet food and glue.
Richard Miniter just came out with a new book.
Disinformation: The 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror. http://tinyurl.com/cjsg6
He authored “Losing BinLaden” and has been featured on many News/Talk shows as an authority on the turmoil in the Middle East.
In his newest book “Disinformation” Miniter claims that there were WMD’s found in Iraq. Specifically:
“*1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium;
*1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
*17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
*Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas
*Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and “conventional” sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency
This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and coalition forces have found NO weapons of mass destruction.”
Richard Miniter explains why these and other popular media factoids and urban legends are not only wrong, but severely damaging to our war effort, in “Disinformation: The 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.”
Great post folks!
Don’t forget those “Oldies but Goodies” – as can be found here too :
http://www.glennbeck.com/news/01302004.shtml
From Glenn Beck’s , ” What did the Democrats say about the WMDs ” !!
I post this Everywhere and every chance I get!
libbies can’t stomach hearing it –especially when I say that ,”…session 21 -called by the Senate democrats earlier in the week–will have to be Cancelled due to the FACT that we have been reminded that WMDs DID exist at the time in question…film at 11…new jobs for democrats can be applied for at ” Walters’ Hot Dog Stand ” as cashiers or waiters…”
Darth AirBorne
I’ve found that nobody is as quite as good at ignoring facts as the libs. The secret to their success is their infinite hypocrisy and utter lack of shame. Unlike conservatives, liberals don’t need to worry about compromising their integrity, mainly because most of them have none.