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17. Guess you didn't want DU's attention for Landay, Strobel, Walcott's reporting on cooked Iraq intel

Reply to Scuba (Reply #15)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 10:12 AM

Jul 2016

that is the focus of the movie and this thread.

You should start another thread that focuses on you and not those reporters who uncovered the cooking of the Iraq intel books.

Better to believe the popular narrative that everyone shared equally in the guilt, even those who believed they were being shown actual, top-secret 'evidence'.

After all these years, I stillz lovzya, Scubz, but, you should know I don't fall for 'narratives' from any corner that reduce everything to black and white - I am a firm believer in CONTEXT.

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Remember when DU focused activism in support of Knight-Ridder reporters Landay, Strobel, Walcott? [View all] blm Jul 2016 OP

Memory Lane for longtime DUers: blm Jul 2016 #1

We wouldn't let the spinners get away with revisionism during the GOP primaries, either. blm Jul 2016 #2

Not too many DUers left that love the history or the pursuit of Truth imo-old friend. K&R bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #3

I won't stop posting what matters most, old buddy. blm Jul 2016 #4

I know you'll NGU on that. Thanks for starting this thread blm. bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #7

+1000 hobbit709 Jul 2016 #13

... librechik Jul 2016 #5

I know….DU at its best, imo. We mattered. Too many don't get that or…. blm Jul 2016 #6

You too-wow, you've been here as long as I have librechik, so, a blues tune for all those years. bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #8

^^^^^^^^^ blm Jul 2016 #9

Nice.. G_j Jul 2016 #20

It wasn't just the Bush administration that sold the war to the American people. Scuba Jul 2016 #10

It was only Bush WH cooking Iraq intel books to sell use of force to world leaders, congress, blm Jul 2016 #11

Only fools believed his lies. Others were complicit. Scuba Jul 2016 #12

The CIA was used to lie to all. They thought they were seeing top secret evidence. blm Jul 2016 #14

Millions of us knew they were lies and marched in the streets. Others were fools, or complicit. Scuba Jul 2016 #15

Guess you didn't want DU's attention for Landay, Strobel, Walcott's reporting on cooked Iraq intel blm Jul 2016 #17

Fools trusted Bush. Others were complicit. End of story. Scuba Jul 2016 #18

Gee - Landay-Strobel-Walcott and their reporting wasn't even necessary - thanks. blm Jul 2016 #19

Many within the CIA knew the Intel was bogus, but kept their mouths shut. The Exilednight Jul 2016 #16

Like Downing Street Memos revealed, intel would be fixed by WH as needed for pro-war goal. blm Jul 2016 #22

K&R G_j Jul 2016 #21

Another investigative journalist has been murdered-this one in Kiev. Danny Casolaro, Gary Webb, bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #23

Their reporting was extrodinary. salin Jul 2016 #24

It's going to be a movie, but, it probably SHOULD have been done as a documentary. blm Jul 2016 #25

Ah, you are correct - I'll take a movie, but it won't have quite the same heft that way. salin Jul 2016 #26

So many gone too soon. blm Jul 2016 #27