Festschrift for Ronald Dumsfeld

You can find it here. In case you ' re too young to know what the crack about " thearea around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat " refers to, that ' s where he said " we know where the weapons of mass destruction are. " In case you ' re too young to know what Weapons of Mass Destruction â„¢ is all about, that ' s why the U.S. invaded Iraq, because of the Imminent Threat â„¢ posed by the Weapons of Mass  Destruction â„¢ which in fact did not exist. The entire campaign for war was based on an edifice of lies, generated by Rumsfeld and R.B. Cheney, to justify what they intended to do even before the 2000 election. They also intimated that Saddam Hussein had something to do with al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attack, which was approximately the opposite of the truth since Osama bin Laden despised Saddam as an apostate.  If you read the European press at the time, as I did, you would know that this was all lies because the European news agencies and publications said so. In the U.S., however, anyone who tried to make that claim was shouted down by a furious mob of pundits and academic " experts " as a traitor and Objectively Pro-terrorist â„¢. The biggest cheerleader for the war, and key purveyor of propaganda, was the New York Times. The way it worked was that Cheney would tell " reporter " Judith Miller a lie, which the Times would then dutifully print without attribution as a fact, whereupon Cheney would say in public, " You don ' t have...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs