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In reply to the discussion: The Young Turks are now running hit pieces on Mueller to help Trump [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)42. Both debates that you mention were underway.
You write:
The real debate as I recall it was not so much whether Saddam had some kind of WMD program, but what we should do even if he did have one.
There certainly was the "what should we do even if" debate, but there was also plenty of rejection of the Bush administration's lies about Saddam's alleged WMDs. This is not just hindsight. Before the invasion, Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, made a presentation to the U.N. Security Council on the progress of the inspection effort in Iraq. He stated, for example:
Several inspections have taken place at declared and undeclared sites in relation to mobile production facilities. Food-testing mobile laboratories and mobile workshops have been seen as well as large containers with seed-processing equipment. No evidence of proscribed activities have so far been found.
Of course, you're right to the extent that the debate about whether Saddam did have WMDs was decidedly muted in the American mass media. They generally acted as stenographers for the Bush administration.
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The Young Turks are now running hit pieces on Mueller to help Trump [View all]
geek tragedy
Aug 2017
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He also repeated the false claim that Susan Rice lied about Benghazi. Shame on him. (eom)
StevieM
Aug 2017
#29
there's this: "News is red hot right now and being positioned on the progressive side of the coin
a kennedy
Aug 2017
#24
Why would TYT retread the old "he repeated what they said" Iraq war talking points as proof?
uponit7771
Aug 2017
#10
Cenk and tht TYT are not progressives but are tools of Russia and conservatives
Gothmog
Aug 2017
#16
Cenk & Ed Schultz, both "former" Republicans have just returned to their roots. They used the left
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2017
#17
The only observation I have is that TYT's political analysis skills are anyting BUT impressive
still_one
Aug 2017
#26
He was expressing the views of the administration and its stated concerns.
geek tragedy
Aug 2017
#32