NY Times editorial board labels Cheney "doomsayer in chief" and more.

[understandinglife]

I doubt if the executive management of the old grey lady will ever admit its central role in deceiving Americans.

How long will it be before the New York Times simply admits that it was a prime neoconster propaganda organ in the launch of an illegal and un-Constitutional war of aggression on Iraq.

But, at least some members of their Editorial board are attempting to bring the truth to readers.

Remember That Mushroom Cloud?

November 2, 2005

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It's clear from the indictment that Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff formed the command bunker for this misdirection campaign. But there is a much larger issue than the question of what administration officials said about Iraq after the invasion - it's what they said about Iraq before the invasion. Senator Harry Reid, the minority leader, may have been grandstanding yesterday when he forced the Senate to hold a closed session on the Iraqi intelligence, but at least he gave the issue a much-needed push.

President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and George Tenet, to name a few leading figures, built support for the war by telling the world that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling chemical weapons, feverishly developing germ warfare devices and racing to build a nuclear bomb. Some of them, notably Mr. Cheney, the administration's doomsayer in chief, said Iraq had conspired with Al Qaeda and implied that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11.

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Were officials fooled by bad intelligence, or knowingly hyping it? Certainly, the administration erased caveats, dissents and doubts from the intelligence reports before showing them to the public. And there was never credible intelligence about a working relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

Under a political deal that Democrats should not have approved, the Intelligence Committee promised to address these questions after the 2004 election. But a year later, there is no sign that this promise is being kept, ....

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Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/opinion/02weds1.html?hp

The Editors conclude with the statement - "Americans are long overdue for an answer to why they were told there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

Americans were long overdue for an answer on November 2, 2003, and on November 2, 2004, they were even more deserving of an answer.

Just imagine if the old grey lady had been something other than the Sulzberger/Keller/Miller propaganda organ of Bush's neoconster regime.

Just imagine if this editorial had appeared on or before November 2, 2004.

All the facts indicating the neoconsters were lying to America existed more than two years before the day Rove was enabled, by the complicit American corporate media, to steal another election.

Indeed, all the facts existed and were in the public domain before March 19, 2003, something the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, ............, still have not reported.

FYI:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4457345


Peace.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Hmm the NYT is trying to remain the paper of record

[Justice Is Comin]

2. I'll give the Times a little slack

if they start reporting the real story now. Instead of the one their reporters make up.

[GetTheRightVote]

3. I agree with you Justice, it is about time for some real news reports

:kick:

[understandinglife]

4. The first story for them to report is an unvarnished investigation of ...

... their propaganda campaign and the lethal consequences, thereof.

If they write that story, which their lawyers probably won't allow, then they can work their way to credibility. But, until they do that task, they're just spinning whatever sells, tomorrow.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

5. Elizabeth de la Vega: The White House Criminal Conspiracy

The White House Criminal Conspiracy

By Elizabeth de la Vega

Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. There is, however, a practical difference: The presidential fraud is wider in scope and far graver in its consequences than the Enron fraud. Yet thus far the public seems paralyzed.

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The evidence shows, then, that from early 2002 to at least March 2003, the President and his aides conspired to defraud the United States by intentionally misrepresenting intelligence about Iraq to persuade Congress to authorize force, thereby interfering with Congress's lawful functions of overseeing foreign affairs and making appropriations, all of which violates Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.

To what standards should we hold our government officials? Certainly standards as high as those Bush articulated for corporate officials. Higher, one would think. The President and Vice President and their appointees take an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States. If they fail to leave their campaign tactics and deceits behind -- if they use the Oval Office to trick the public and Congress into supporting a war -- we must hold them accountable. It's not a question of politics. It's a question of law.

Much more at the link:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=32550

A fitting post by Ms de la Vega and comments by Tom Engelhardt to accompany the NYT Editorial.

Part of the reason the "public IS paralyzed" is because the vast majority of those who should be delivering truth-therapy have instead been injecting anesthesia or worse.


Peace.

[symbolman]

6. I honestly wish more people would realise how important my film is..

my "Rove's War" film covers ALL OF THIS, the run up to the war, the intel fixing, the outing, the mushroom cloud spin, the break in at the Niger Embassy to the Ledeen Meeting, Ex CIA folks telling us HOW important it all is..

I've got it ALL in the film - I'm actually going to go through a contact and get this film into the Senators hands that need a PLAYBOOK for the whole operation, the Chronology of their CRIMES is all there..

Hell, I bet Fitz could use the damn thing :)

I've got to get this into more hands until it reached a tipping point and people understand that I'VE GOT THEM COLD in this film..

I speculated nearly everything that's happened to the point where it looks like I JUST FINISHED THIS WORK, but it also makes it all the more ON THE MARK.

Sorry for spouting off, but when you've got the goods and want the world to know, and it can HELP then I don't think I have any choice but to PUSH my work..

and thanks to UL for bringing GOOD things to LIFE (but not like GE :) )

[enough]

7. kick