This is the more likely result of such a scan:
Posted on 11/21/2010 7:29:49 AM PST by Scanian
Syndicated columnist and PBS regular Mark Shields on Friday actually said on national television that he has never heard a Democratic leader or presidential candidate accuse former President George W. Bush of lying America into the Iraq War.
This was said in response to Charles Krauthammer telling his fellow "Inside Washington" panelists that this all too common media assertion is the "essential untruth of this decade" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
GORDON PETERSON, HOST: What’s happened to honest objective reporting?
EVAN THOMAS, NEWSWEEK: Well, I’m not sure there ever was honest objective reporting, but there is an interesting thing going on. You would think with the internet and cable and all these new outlets, more information should mean more truth. The more information, the freer, the more open it is should mean more truth. But I worry that the opposite has happened. That, there, it’s now more possible for untruth to adhere, to take hold. In the example that people were talking about this week was this thing that got out from first the Indian press, then to Drudge, then to the right wing radio guys and then Congress that Obama was spending $200 million a day on his foreign trip which was just nonsense. It was finally knocked down. But, you start to wonder, you hear, people get their information by the internet, by e-mails from their Uncle Joe. You know, if that’s where they are getting their information, is it possible that real untruth will take hold in a way that we didn’t think was possible in our system?
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: I think that this a, this is worrisome, and it’s left and right. It’s the people who think the Bush administration somehow was responsible for 9/11, or that a trip that clearly costs in total something like five or six million at the most, and it’s really 200 million. It’s not the same, I mean a day. They’re, they’re not the same in importance obviously, but, but, this really, the fact that there is no -- there doesn’t seem to be any factual agreement about anything allows us to sort of entertain the most odd and conspiratorial fantasies.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365793062101552.html
That didn’t take long did it? Someone needs to acquaint Mr Shields with Google.
This is the more likely result of such a scan:
How about the French? Were they in cahoots with Dubya? And how about the Russians?
Everyone thought Iraq had WMDs before the war. It wasn't just Bush.
"He contrived the WMD thing."
Read post 13 and try to pay attention before posting.
If President Bush "contrived the WMD thing" he sure had a strange group of fellow contrivers.
Logic is your friend, exercise your critical thinking skills.
No, anybody who follows the news could come up with at least one comeback to Shields’ assertion.
I realize that nobody here much cares about the UN but how many resolutions were we going to allow Saddam to crap all over without actually DOING something about it?
Bush TRIED and Saddam DIED and I’m happy about it.
He must have missed the Kerry and Obozo campaigns.
Pray for America
That's a peculiar form of conservatism, tea party or otherwise.
It proves that Democrats will crap all over the truth to score political points even if it undermines American security and costs American lives. Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton and their cohorts didn’t care how many GIs died as long as Bush got the blame. I promise I will piss on fat Teddy’s grave before I die.
Not to appear disrespectful but you seem to have been out of the country or even off the planet during the run up to the Iraq war.
In this thread were posted exact quotes from many high ranking Democrats who themselves depended on Intel from not only our CIA but the Intel agencies of ALL our allies including Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Israel and even the UN itself. All agreed Iraq not only had WMD but was continually working on them. Bush used THIS information and the Congress accepted it as did Bush as valid and a good reason to proceed with the invasion.
You say this was a hoax and maybe it was (perpetrated by Hussein) but that is not a lie, is it? Hussein may well have been lying about hias stash of WMD but EVERYONE BELIEVED IT TO BE TRUE and if you has looked up the real meaning of what constitutes a lie before you responded, you would know there must be KNOWLEDGE what was being said was false before it was said. Bush and all the others whose information he trusted actually BELIEVED Hussein had the WMD and so there was NO lie.
Or maybe he's had too many already. Very high radiation exposure with CatScans.
That’s public televisions idea of diversity: a panel consisting of the liberal and even more liberal. That way, they cover all of the views worth having.
Better said - the WMD thing was an issue seriously questioned by some of his own intelligence people, but Bush chose to order invasion of Iraq. I think evidence of his convoluted motivation was the subsequent invention of the so-called “Bush Doctrine.”
Touche’.
The WMD thing was an issue seriously questioned by some of his own intelligence people, but Bush chose to order invasion of Iraq. I think evidence of his convoluted motivation was the subsequent invention of the so-called “Bush Doctrine.”,p>
The WMD thing was an issue seriously questioned by some of his own intelligence people, but Bush chose to order invasion of Iraq. I think evidence of his convoluted motivation was the subsequent invention of the so-called “Bush Doctrine.”
The WMD thing was an issue seriously questioned by some of his own intelligence people, but Bush chose to order invasion of Iraq. I think evidence of his convoluted motivation was the subsequent invention of the so-called “Bush Doctrine.”
Jim 0216:
Always Wrong, Never in Doubt...
Good post.
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