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"Harry Hope" |
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12 Feb 2007 09:07:16 PM |
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Iraq, Iran, it's deja vu all over again. |
From The Washington Post, 2/12/07:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/02/12/BL2007021200678.html?nav=rss_opinions
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, February 12, 2007
For a long time now, Bush admininstration officials have been
promising reporters proof that the Iranian government is supplying
deadly weaponry to Iraqi militants.
The administration finally unveiled its case this weekend, first in
coordinated and anonymous leaks to a trusting New York Times reporter,
then in an extraordinarily secretive military briefing at which no one
would speak on the record, journalists weren't allowed to photograph
the so-called evidence, and nothing even remotely like proof of direct
Iranian government involvement was presented.
The result: The White House got the headlines it wanted.
But there is plenty of reason for reporters to be suspicious of the
administration's claims.
And looking at the big picture, one can't help but wonder:
Is this deja vu all over again?
Is the Bush admininistration once again building a faulty case for
war, this time against Iran?
And is the press going along for the ride?
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Of course they are. The Bush Crime Family pays 'em off in more ways
than one.
Harry
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| User: "Neolibertarian" |
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| Title: Re: Iraq, Iran, it's deja vu all over again. |
12 Feb 2007 10:56:21 PM |
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In article <tqa2t25fv4psj7gf1jiie0er4t9dec6uit@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Washington Post, 2/12/07:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/02/12/BL2007021200678.h
tml?nav=rss_opinions
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, February 12, 2007
For a long time now, Bush admininstration officials have been
promising reporters proof that the Iranian government is supplying
deadly weaponry to Iraqi militants.
The administration finally unveiled its case this weekend, first in
coordinated and anonymous leaks to a trusting New York Times reporter,
then in an extraordinarily secretive military briefing at which no one
would speak on the record, journalists weren't allowed to photograph
the so-called evidence, and nothing even remotely like proof of direct
Iranian government involvement was presented.
The result: The White House got the headlines it wanted.
But there is plenty of reason for reporters to be suspicious of the
administration's claims.
Not really.
This is the way it is painted by them.
In reality, it's the reporters I don't trust.
--
NeoLibertarian
"Nobody inherits their civilisation.
You always inherit the /ruins/ of your civilisation.
Beginning with yourself."
--Dennis M. Hammes
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