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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?
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To: tonto who wrote (995)3/9/2005 7:27:44 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (2) of 9838
 
Bush said what he said. I don't need to recant that for you. Read his SOTU address before the war. He danced all around 9-11 and Iraq weaving a thread that only the most astute would not have taken as blaming Saddam for 9-11 or at least supporting terror, or transferring WMD to terrorists. You read that speech again.

Each one of Bush's administration added speculation that Saddam was part of the problems that culminated in 9-11.

I posted to you what Rice said...I'll repost an excerpt here:

"We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein ... had either direction or control of 9/11," Rice said.

"What we have said is that this is someone who supported terrorists, helped to train them (and) was a threat in this region that we were not prepared to tolerate."

Defending the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) to oust Saddam, she said he represented a threat in "a region from which the 9/11 threat emerged."

It's what we call double speak. You deny something...then reinforce it going out the back door. This kind of double speak was the hall mark of the administration leading up to the war.

Then we have watched the administration change the reason for going to war at least 6 or 7 times.

Then Bush flew out to the Aircraft Carrier to say these words:

The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001 and still goes on.

That terrible morning, 19 evil men, the shock troops of a hateful ideology, gave America and the civilized world a glimpse of their ambitions. They imagined, in the words of one terrorist, that September the 11th would be the beginning of the end of America.

By seeking to turn our cities into killing fields, terrorists and their allies believed that they could destroy this nation's resolve and force our retreat from the world.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of Al Qaida and cut off a source of terrorist funding.

I'm not buying it...but 70% of Americans did buy into it. You're one of them apparently.

Orca
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