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I'm Shocked, Shocked
by Deck Deckert
(Swans - December 5, 2005) There is an extraordinary amount of energy being spent on discussing the possibility that the administration lied us into a war with Iraq. I'm shocked, shocked to find that lying is going on in here!
The lies, now, of course, come from those who are pretending that they had no way of knowing that they were being lied to at the start of all this. The current lies come from all quarters -- Democrats and Republicans, the New York Times and the other print media, Fox News on TV and all the other networks.
The whole thing is absurd.
1) There is no question that we were lied to.
2) There is no question that the lies were self-evident from the very beginning.
No one over the age of 12, or with an IQ over 60, could have possibly believed that Iraq had the means and the desire to attack the most powerful country in the world with weapons of mass destruction -- or baseball bats -- across thousands of miles of ocean.
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All those politicians and members of the media who claimed they were "misled" and "lied to," are themselves lying or stupid -- or both. All the fitful attempts by politicians to produce some kind of exit strategy now reflect only an attempt to placate the public in time for the next elections. Congress just voted by an overwhelming 403 - 3 to continue the war, proving once again the United States doesn't have a two-party system, it has one party -- the War Party.
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If the media were honest in their reporting, their coverage would also mean an end to this war. But that won't happen either. They are only slightly embarrassed by the fact that the public can now see how easily they lied, and are lying, to support the Bush administration and other centers of power in Iraq and elsewhere. They should be more than just slightly embarrassed; they have utterly failed us, both in the run-up to the war, and now. The case of Judith Miller is just the most visible transgression.
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Forget the corporate media's ignoring of the hundreds of unanswered questions about 9/11. The protection of the Bush administration is still going on. The Downing Street Memo was virtually ignored, for example, as is the issue of torture -- who ever would have thought that the United States would be unashamedly embracing torture? The utter destruction of the Iraqi town of Fallujah with the killing of thousands of civilians is a war crime of immense proportions that is ignored by the mainstream media. The cover-up, the protection, goes on and on.
Most of this is done quite willingly by the mainstream American media. The alternate media on the Internet -- the blogs, the Webzines like Swans, Web sites like Antiwar, Rense, and Common Dreams -- are less solicitous. But compared to the mainstream media, they have little power.
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And just recently it was announced that Tony Blair had to persuade President Bush not to bomb Al Jazeera last year, according to the British paper, The Mirror.
"Outlandish!", the White House screamed. "You can't talk about that!", the British warned.
The American corporate media was mostly silent on the accusation even though a lot of journalists have been killed by "friendly fire" and other "accidents" and you would think that they would take the matter quite seriously. Shucks, you might think they would even be a bit upset.
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http://www.swans.com/library/art11/rdeck054.html
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