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In reply to the discussion: NPR just flat out LIED. [View all]garybeck
(9,939 posts)11. I don't really agree with that
if you have a weapons program, you are developing weapons.
if you're not developing weapons, you don't have a weapons program.
it's pretty simple. what they said is a complete contradiction to what our Defense Secretary said.
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Do you mean the republicans that threatened to de-fund NPR if they didn't get their ass in line?
tularetom
Jan 2012
#4
It's called splitting hairs finer than atoms. The npr story says "program", Panetta says "weapons"
leveymg
Jan 2012
#5
you are right, of course. the PNAC types are vampires to the core of their being.
marasinghe
Jan 2012
#47
So liberals can't distinguish between what they know is bs on FOX and NPR's rw propaganda?
SammyWinstonJack
Jan 2012
#42
sorry; running decent arts programs on NPR & PBS, doesn't make 'em into objective news sources.
marasinghe
Jan 2012
#48
Iran has very little uranium, though. North Korea at least has millions of tonnes of reserves.
joshcryer
Jan 2012
#37
NPR gets about 2% funding from US, and that's about how much of them you can believe.
Festivito
Jan 2012
#29
NPR has been a part of the propaganda network for the better part of a decade
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#33