FOOLED AGAIN - Big News Orgs Help Bush Whitewash History Of Iraq War

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Big News Orgs Help Bush Whitewash History Of Iraq War
By Greg Sargent - December 2, 2008, 10:02AM

This really isn't complicated. President Bush was not being "blunt" or showing "candor" when he told ABC News in an interview published yesterday that his biggest regret was the failure of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Rather, he was whitewashing away his own role in the fisaco by promoting the demonstrable falsehood that there was no available evidence or information that argued against war and that
he was merely fooled into invading Iraq solely by the bad intel.

The big news orgs seem eager to help Bush do this. Not a single one of their reports on the interview that we can find bothered to tell readers that there was plenty of good intel -- ignored by the Bush administration -- saying that Saddam wasn't the threat Bush was claiming he was. Nor did any of them bother mentioning that the weapons inspectors in Iraq were saying the same thing -- something that also went ignored.

These facts are absolutely central to understanding Bush's efforts to falsify history in yesterday's interview. Yet they went unmentioned in reports by Reuters, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN, and The New York Times.

more (plus links)at:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/big_news_orgs_help_bush_whitew.php

[dysfunctional press]

1. although the real truth may be supressed in all of our lifetimes, future historians may get it right

and that could be the best we can realistically hope for. :shrug:

[Kolesar]

4. Contemporary authors already have it right

But the Time-Warner media keeps publishing the bush story.

[malaise]

6. Bush and M$Greedia can lie all the way but

I actually read the PNAC documents and their way prevailed over the 'supposed' intel.
Bush lied - hundreds of thousands died.

[SpiralHawk]

2. corporate media is no more that a propaganda catapult

for the status quo. That's why 'journalism' has no cred, no honor, and merits no respect. They have failed America and Americans by licking republicon boot for many long years.

[Kolesar]

3. "There was plenty of good intel -- ignored by the Bush administration -- saying that ...

... Saddam wasn't the threat Bush was claiming he was"

As a DUer noted here yesterday, other governments like Canada looked at the "same intel" and stayed the hell out of that quagmire.

[spanone]

5. the. worse. president. ever.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. they are covering their own asses as well as junior's

[acmavm]

8. Bullshit and lies have worked for the guy all his life. He's not about

to throw away a 'winning' system now, is he?

[bertman]

9. I'm going to recommend that President Obama keep Gitmo open for a few extra months

so we can send Dubya, Dickless, Gonzo, Powell, Rice and the rest of the gang down there for a bit of "vacation" fun.

Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, starvation, drug-induced narcosis, beatings, and whatever other exotics they can come up with should be administered to these traitors to America.

Let them stew in their own juices and consider their deeds. After that we'll talk about fair trials for the war criminals.

My fantasy.

P.S. why don't we throw in a few media types like Murdoch, Ailes, Brokaw? Just to add some flavor to the pot.