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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techplayer who wrote (3127)	3/26/2003 9:02:04 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Here is some of the misinformation coming from the adminsitration: 1. According to Condoleeza Rice on a recent TV talk show, the war would take only a few days. (Her comment was made about two weeks ago.) 2. According to the former head of Bush's economic advisory team, the war might easily cost more than $1 trillion. After he was fired, the administration still kept saying that the cost would be around $50 billion, but this was upped to $75 billion yesterday in the form of a request for a supplemental appropriation. Note that no extra cost had been budgeted for in the recent appropriation, and the administration asked for a supplemental only AFTER the earlier budget appropriation had passed Congress. 3. According to U.S./British reports from Umm Kasr, the city is now under control of the invading forces, but reports from other sources indicated that key portions of the area were still under Iraqi control. One cannot trust the reports coming from the administration, nor from the coopted news media. In fact, one can no longer trust an administration which bases its case for invading Iraq on forged documents. If the administration would give straight, honest answers, they would find much less support from the general population. Hence, in order to retain support, they manage the news. Art