The CENTRAL NEW JERSEY Home News Tribune of 12/02/03
http://www.thnt.com/thnt/story/0,21282,863326,00.html reported that at a recent fundraiser in New Jersey, Bush "highlighted the accomplishments of his administration, including eliminating the terrorism threat from Afghanistan and weapons of mass destruction from Iraq and ensuring that Medicare will remain solvent."
Granted that the rest of the article is a balanced presentation …but Bush says he has "eliminated" the WMDs no one ever found! And no media picks up on the lie!
Then The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports Andrew Card Declares Iraqi WMDs a "Moot Point"
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/4256004.html in a story that says, "On CNN's 'Late Edition,' Wolf Blitzer pushed Card fairly hard on the war in Iraq -- not so much on how it's going, but on why it happened. At one point, after broaching the issue of the phantom weapons of mass destruction, Blitzer asked, 'Was U.S. intelligence going into the war faulty?' Card answered: 'Well, intelligence... I think that's a moot point.' And the Star Tribune let’s Card get away with using that innocuous phrase, 'moot point,' and does not comment on it, try to put into context why such a comment is outrageous, does not note that the intelligence failure was by the reader, not the writer, of the intelligence report, and that the failure misled us into war and had a price in lives and treasure of immense proportions and consequences.
Where the heck is the US Media?
Our not owned and controlled by the right wing GOP media – they just act like they are.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EL12Dg01.htmland we have Iran -Contra again - this time with the Atimes reporting from Madrid that the US government needs to explain why the missile shipment on a vessel intercepted a year ago on the high seas by the Spanish navy ended up in Libya, a spokesman from Spain's Defense Ministry said this week.
The official was referring to declarations made by sources from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the Madrid daily El Mundo that claim 15 complete Scud missiles, a set of conventional warheads and 85 containers of chemical products - some 20 holding nitric acid - were ultimately delivered to Libya under a Washington decision.
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The NATO sources cited in El Mundo said that at the time the shipment was intercepted, the United States was secretly negotiating the possibility that Libya would accept Saddam Hussein, then still president of Iraq, in exile. And Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who played the role of go-between during the Gulf War in 1991 by assisting in Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait, had hopes of gaining access to the weapons.
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When the United Nations Security Council lifted sanctions against Libya, then-US ambassador James Cunningham abstained from the vote, stating that Washington did not want to give the idea that it believed Libya had done an about-face, because, said the ambassador, the country continued to try to obtain weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. But things appear to have changed radically, given that the weapons shipment intercepted by Spain, and which ended up in Libya, includes such arms.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EL12Dg01.htmlAnd no one in the US Media wants to know for what purpose Cheney is using the money from the new Iran-Contra (to Libya by way of Yemen) treason? Is it OK for Bush asking Libya to accept Saddam Hussein in exile to throw in a few missiles to Gaddafi? Backdoor trading of dangerous weapons to potentially dangerous countries and groups seems the GOP way since the Reagan-Bush regime. Did Libya get a cake and a bible like Iran did last time, and as drug sales were the Reagan way, can we assume the Afghan poppies crop and its heroin is somehow involved?
And again - does our US Media care?
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