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16. They forgot to explain why the media went along with it all

Tue Feb 19, 2013, 01:06 AM

Feb 2013

While we knew every bit of that information as it was unfolding. We knew the Prague thing was a hoax, we knew the mobile labs were a hoax, we knew Chalabi was untrustworthy, we knew the yellowcake was a forgery. We knew that the Intelligence report had many qualifications and reservations about things they were saying were proven. We knew it all back then.

I didn't really learn anything new from that show. What I wanted to know was why the media didn't know what we knew, and why they didn't report on it.

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my problem with the "Hubris" special [View all] greenman3610 Feb 2013 OP

Totally agree Euphoria Feb 2013 #1

She DID go back to the PNAC letter to W early on. annabanana Feb 2013 #2

Letter to W, or to Clinton? JHB Feb 2013 #35

She showed the one to Clinton. JoePhilly Feb 2013 #40

Tora Bore was missing nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #3

My problem is that so much was left out... tavernier Feb 2013 #4

True... MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #5

She did show the 1998 letter to Clinton making a case for invading Iraq Cleita Feb 2013 #6

She did, but this needed to ProSense Feb 2013 #7

Agree. 120 minutes and the could of reported on the profiteering. Auggie Feb 2013 #43

and 9/11 happened just at the nick of time....whatta coincidence eh ? nt msongs Feb 2013 #8

Which is why I have always been a LIHOPer although we aren't allowed to talk about Cleita Feb 2013 #9

nevertheless you're probably right. delrem Feb 2013 #24

+1,000 n/t malaise Feb 2013 #37

LIHOP is MIHOP tiny elvis Feb 2013 #41

No. They're not the same. I see your point though. Festivito Feb 2013 #44

PNAC/Downing Street Memos/Valerie Plame/Judith Miller...etc. etc. KoKo Feb 2013 #10

Both Plame And Wilson Appeared In This Documentary..... global1 Feb 2013 #15

Plame appeared, but the Plame/Cheney affair wasn't mentioned. hay rick Feb 2013 #30

I'm Thinking That Rachel Will Be Talking A Lot About "Hubris" In The Days And Weeks To Come..... global1 Feb 2013 #11

So much wrongdoing to cram into a one-hour special, Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #12

Frontline Bush's War is very in depth LeftInTX Feb 2013 #13

Google "Fuck Saddam. we're taking him out". yodermon Feb 2013 #14

They forgot to explain why the media went along with it all frazzled Feb 2013 #16

There was word at the time that "they didn't want to lose access" Amonester Feb 2013 #17

The MSMedia is full of lying, propagandizing whores but they're to "civil" to say it just1voice Feb 2013 #18

Or why so many on both sides of the aisle supported it mostlyconfused Feb 2013 #25

They might have had to mention the one show pushing back on that front... JHB Feb 2013 #36

Operation Iraqi Liberation blkmusclmachine Feb 2013 #19

Heck the ONION knew that Bush wanted to attack Iraq csziggy Feb 2013 #20

Sometimes the Onion is the only truth in town GiaGiovanni Feb 2013 #22

That 2001 Onion story convinced me they knew the truth csziggy Feb 2013 #23

Agreed! Fedaykin Feb 2013 #27

Wow! That is uncanny!!! Number23 Feb 2013 #29

Thanks for the link! That was hilarious in the most awful black comedy way. delrem Feb 2013 #32

+1000! annabanana Feb 2013 #39

Those questions were not asked because they were answered in advance. VPStoltz Feb 2013 #21

Watched 'Huburis' on the Left Coast... Fedaykin Feb 2013 #26

GOOD catch! patrice Feb 2013 #28

Maddow's show was very well crafted and is a great resource Babel_17 Feb 2013 #31

I get it. I understand why. greenman3610 Feb 2013 #33

Not to mention that this administration is continuing the policies forged during Bush's war on terra HiPointDem Feb 2013 #34

KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) is a very good idea when first presenting something like this lunatica Feb 2013 #38

Most Americans can't tell the difference between Saddam and Osama. JoePhilly Feb 2013 #42