"It's a good start" white house says-regarding retraction

[DesEtoiles]

Why the FUCK are we letting them get away with this?

We now have the White House firing journalists for reporting the truth?

HOW. DARE. THEY.

They have no GD right to require that Newsweek fire people (for reporting the truth about the Administration's war crimes).

Why in the hell is Newsweek caving?

[Skidmore]

1. So what do they want next?

The firstborn of every Newsweek employee? Pints of blood from those employees to keep Cheney and Rummy from going poof when the sunlight hits them? Halo pictures of * throughout infinity?

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. A good start?

Must be nice to have such an inflated sense of righteousness.

[Egalitariat]

3. Please post a link regarding

firings and related "requirements" from the White House. It sounds like a good read.

[tridim]

4. I'm just as pissed off as you

My mind is racing.. What can we do? Vote them out? Nope, tried that already.

Our country is in 100% Soviet censorship mode now. They don't even try to hide it any more. It's scary as hell.

[Disturbed]

6. Will the Bush Junta demand retractions from other sources?

"Detainees also complained about the interference with their ability to pray and the lack of respect given to their religion. For example, the British detainees state that they were never given prayer mats and initially were not provided Korans. They also complained that when the Korans were provided, the guards “would kick the Koran, throw it into the toilet and generally disrespect it.”

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/gitmo1004/3.htm#_ft...

The Junta and their lackey media have managed to twist this their way and make NW the scapegoat.

[grytpype]

5. This is what NW gets for publishing the truth.

It will not be tolerated.

[DesEtoiles]

7. How many dead because Bush went to war on "bad information"?

[Al-CIAda]

13. But Bu$hco got 'darn good intelligence'. Medals of Freedom were issued

because of this. They even conrtadict themselves within their OWN retarded reality.

[kenny blankenship]

8. newsweak caves because

they're mainstream media, which means they're corporate whores in the final analysis; and being corporate whores they have no self-respect. Much vanity, yes--but no self-respect.

[Dinger]

9. Ain't That Too Fucking Bad!

Shit, I'm getting madder by the second. I gotta get a grip here.

[Al-CIAda]

10. Just as CBS execs went to the WH to beg for forgiveness and

vowed a more sevile demeanor, and just as they were de-balled, so now is Newsweek. Its all bullshit by master bullshit artists.

MSNBC joins in much like Fox to boot.

Meanwhile TREASON and mass murder are being committed by the WH.
Raiding whats left of the treasury and hiding it should be a breeze.

[Coexist]

11. blast the media - let them hear us - that we will stand up for them

if they report the truth.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3664790

[RebelAgainstEmpire]

12. Sounds about right

"Why the FUCK are we letting them get away with this?"

We aren't. But we don't count.

Could always call someone in Congress. But that's pretty much a waste of time.

Could always write an angry letter. But then you're just some socialist anti-Americanist tree hugging consumer.

These are many of the same people from the Iran-Contra days. They got away with that too.

[kenny blankenship]

14. WHEN WILL BUSH RETRACT THESE LIES ?

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them, despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.

--George W. Bush, 2003 State of the Union Address

[killbotfactory]

15. "hostile information"

Who needs a free press when God is on your side?