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In reply to the discussion: Jon Stewart LAYS INTO Judith Miller: You PUSHED US Into ‘Devastating’ Iraq Mistake [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)To treat this person, or any of those responsible for murdering a hundred thousand innocent Iraqis, brutally displacing five million innocent people and dropping a 'neutron bomb' onto Middle Eastern society, with such politeness strikes me as wrong. Despite the hard and insistent questions that Stewart asks, this interview gives legitimacy to lying liar Judith Miller, to the lying liars who are publishing her and who may well profit from her lies, and to the lying liars, mass murderers and torturers of the Bush Junta, who ripped western civilization to pieces as well, along with the babies, grandparents, pregnant women, parents, children, teachers, nurses, doctors, small business people, librarians, civil servants, bus drivers and all sorts of ordinary people whose bodies they ripped apart with their "shock and awe" bombing.
I would have preferred, say, a rotten egg throw. Say, give a chance to a legless U.S. soldier, or to an Iraqi orphan, to throw something nasty and squishy at Judith Miller. Unrealistic? Yeah, I guess he couldn't do that. He had to be polite. But his flawless questioning, and reason and logic, just don't cut it. In truth, Miller and her Junta belong in the stockade.
Also, there is more to this Miller person than lies. He should have asked, why did Donald Rumsfeld give Miller a signed authority to lead the U.S. troops who were 'hunting' for WMDs in Iraq around by the nose, pointing them at particular places? She was thoroughly annoying to the local commanders of those troops--whose complaints about her eventually made it into the news. What was she doing there?
I think--based upon a close study of events in spring-summer 2003--that she had been apprised by Rumsfeld that WMDs would be found, because he had arranged it, and she--as his chief shill--was going to get the "scoop." Somebody foiled that plot. I don't have a good guess as to who foiled it, but it could have been a faction of the CIA (which is why Cheney-Rumsfeld outed the CIA's WMD counterproliferation project?), and/or may have had something to do with UN weapons inspector and whistleblower David Kelly's death--very likely murdered, shortly after sending Judith Miller an email about "dark actors playing games." Indeed, Stewart should have politely asked her about David Kelly. It would have been interesting to see her face after a bombshell question like this: "Ms. Miller, who do you think the 'dark actors' were, who were harassing, and possibly murdered, David Kelly? Who was he talking about, in his email to you just before he was found dead?"
Instead, Stewart permitted her to maintain her phoney face throughout the interview. Nothing kicked her out of her bed of lies.
In this sense, it was just another interview of yet another lying liar mass murderer, in our rotten political culture of .01%ers and their shills.