[jwalburg]

"Yet on television those demonstrations . . . were treated dismissively, condescendingly and patronizingly as if they were not important news."

Really?

"I think there are other ways of getting rid of Saddam Hussein without going to war."

Does he name one that could possibly work?

[ladtx]

Journalist Carl Bernstein, who helped break the Watergate story three decades ago, told a Sarasota audience Wednesday that the Bush administration should seek to prevent a holy war, not start one.

Got news for you Carl. This "holy" war was started 9/11/01 when we were attacked. Maybe you didn't hear about it. At any rate, we're going to finish it.

[cynicom]

Guess Bernstein never heard of Neville Chamberlain, the guy that plowed that same field years ago, and came up with a very bitter harvest.

[gcruse]

"Journalists must be willing to go after the hard stories..."

"Investigative reporting is the job of the tabloid press."
                  --Ted Koppel when asked about the lack of press
                   interest in the Clinton scandals/treason.

[moodyskeptic]

Carl sold away his credibilty during the Clinton administration when he refused to use his Great Journalistic Skills to expose White House crimes. He looked the other way, as did all Democrat party loyalists. For a guy who became famous for uncovering White House corruption, this is inexcusable. Like the UN, Bernstein is irrelevant.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

"He doesn't talk about the fact that most of these Iraqi arms we are trying to get rid of are the very arms and weapons that we gave to them."

What a load of crap. Germany and France and Russia accounted for almost 90% of all arms sales to Iraq in the 80s and the US accounted for less than 1%. And that comes from a LIBERAL "watchdog group".

I don't have the name in front of me but I will find it and post it on this thread.

[AF68]

Carl Bernstein used his Watergate reporting fame and money to drug and drink with the celebrity crowd and his life went down the toilet. He's just another alcoholic, druggie a-hole giving his leftist opinion.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Here is a link to the Stockholm International Peace Research Intitute's study showing the dollar value of the arms transferred to Iraq listed by nation states from 1982-1990.

http://projects.sipri.se/armstrade/Tnd_Ind_IRQ_Imps_82-01.pdf

Also I was incorrect to list Germany.

Here are the countries and the percentage values of the arms they transferred to Iraq during those years.

USSR 50%
CHINA 18%
FRANCE 13%
POLAND 5%
CZECH. 5%
EGYPT 2%
BRAZIL 2%
ROMANIA 2%
DENMARK 1%
LYBIA 1%
USA 1%


And the actual percentage the USA sold is less than 1% but because of rounding it is listed as 1%.

Carl Bernstein in this article talks about finding out the "best version of the truth" and I guess the best version he can come up with is a stinking pile.

The truth is an entity. There is no "best version" of the truth. There is the truth and then there are those things we call fiction, half truths, lies, mistatements, and pick any number of words to describe non-truths.

The truth exists even if nobody recognizes it. If every person in the world said I have 42DD breasts and even I agreed with them the truth is I don't have breasts. ( I don't even need a mansiere or a bro)

Just because people believe something doesn't make it true or accurate and that's why I live in the real world and not in a make believe world that Sociologists try to create.