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To: Dale Baker who wrote (39526)	7/12/2007 4:16:37 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541933

The Gonzales story ran page one in the major media I read, and the SG story was also front-paged. The many discrepancies about rhetoric and reality in Iraq are also there to see. Which lies do you think have not been covered prominently? A fair question, thanks. Granted, the MSM seems to smell blood in the water concerning Gonzales, and have come closer to challenging his veracity than perhaps any other admin figure thus far. As for the unchallenged mendacity, it is legion: We found the WMD in Iraq The implied connection between Al Queda and Saddam That Iraq posed an imminent threat to the US Powell's Iraq presentation to the UN The 16 words in the SOTU address No one could have predicted they'd use a hijacked plane as a missile That anyone held at Gitmo or a black site is a terrorist That FISA guidelines were being followed That Congress had the same intel the WH did when voting on the Iraq force resolution That no one anticipated the levee breeches in NOLA That most of the tax cuts went to the low and middle-class Prescription drug bill costs Suppressing/altering EPA data Suppressing/altering scientific data, as in the Klamath River That the VPOTUS is not part of the Executive branch These are just off the top of my head. A Google search would turn up many hundreds more, well documented by bloggers. At the time, all were either enthusiastically passed along as truth, or else ignored. Any discrepency from reality was quickly passed over and generally not brought up again. Few dots have been connected since. All could have been fairly easily debunked by a diligent journalist, and yet this did not happen, at least in the MSM. Any skepticism I have seen has been from relatively obscure bloggers. And I do not consider this a partisan affair; I have no doubt that a Dem admin would behave similarly, given the latitude enjoyed by the current regime. To sum up an already overly-long post, we need to question not why pols dissemble (its what they do), but why our Fourth Estate has ceased to perform its most important function for our republic, that of questioning authority.