My government lying to me health risks of taking my 3 year old daughter

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(MSGOP has just changed their front page and have buried Eric Alterman)

Things that make me crazy part xvii: My own government lying to me about the health risks of taking my three year old daughter to Ground Zero and lying to all the heroes who volunteered to serve their nation (and my great city) in its hour of need.  Remember the White House overruled the scientists of the EPA on 9/11 and issued a false assurance to everyone concerned that the air was much safer to breathe than in fact, they had any evidence to claim.  In all the many, many ways in which this government has broken its faith with those whom it professes to serve and failed to provide for its security, this seems to be the absolute worst and least morally defensible even within the context of its ideological hysteria and hubris over Iraq.  And yet the SCLM, save this Newsweek piece, cannot seem to rouse itself to report much about it.  Not even the New York Times seems to think it important.  Has this great nation ever been more desperately off the rails than it is at this moment?  Has its leadership class ever been less responsible?  I think you have to go all the way back to the pre-war leadership of the confederate states to find a useful comparison.  This History News Network survey offers some other points of comparison.

Another day in George Bush’s America, another set of headlines in which American troops and Israeli troops (using American weapons) are pictured throughout the world killing scores of innocent Arab women and children, and of course, inspiring more terrorism.  I feel safer, don’t you?

If you are not buying the Journal every day during this scandal, you are missing the best non-Hersh reporting to come out of it.  For instance today the Times has a much less informative and more administration friendly version of the story that Journal readers read a week ago, in which U.S. authorities admit in the fine print that the June 30 handover will be a ruse and that Americans will be running Iraq as much as ever.  Today’s top story:  “U.S. Generals Say No System Exists For Abuse Reports.”  It seems to be here. 

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/