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still_one

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19. Hillary didn't make the claim of WMDs, that was the bush administration, of which Powell
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:57 PM
Jan 2017

was a part.

What Hillary acknowledged as a mistake, was that Bush appealed to Congress that the IWR vote would allow that administration to use leverage in order to finish the inspections, because the threat of force in the resolution would persuade Hussein into readmitting U.N. inspectors, so they could continue their mission of verifying whether or not he had destroyed his chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites.

The problem was that bush went back on his word, and invaded before giving the inspectors enough time.

There was a tremendous amount of MISINFORMATION going on at that time, and if you looked at the links I provided it demonstrated that. The New York Times apologized for their inept reporting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html?_r=0

While there were some news sources, such as Knight Rider, and others who got it right, the majority the U.S. news outlets were primarily echos of white house propaganda.


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A lot of credit needs to be given to the media who gave him a free pass on most everything. This is still_one Jan 2017 #1
Media didn't lie about WMDs cyclonefence Jan 2017 #2
Major news organizations aided and abetted the Bush administration's march to war. They based their still_one Jan 2017 #3
Well, the msm were vocal enough cyclonefence Jan 2017 #5
Yes! colorado_ufo Jan 2017 #12
Hillary didn't make the claim of WMDs, that was the bush administration, of which Powell still_one Jan 2017 #19
When MSNBC DK504 Jan 2017 #14
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 demonstrated just how the media allowed themselves still_one Jan 2017 #20
Is this why dump tweeted.. the media makes him tweet? Cha Jan 2017 #4
"Are you sorry yet?" MountCleaners Jan 2017 #6
Wow. That's stunning. progressoid Jan 2017 #22
The news media treats Trump's tweets as if they are actual news. world wide wally Jan 2017 #7
Seems that half are upset about his tweets The Polack MSgt Jan 2017 #8
More Trumpette Tears can be found here... Joe Bacon Jan 2017 #9
wow!!! what comments bdamomma Jan 2017 #11
can we call this bdamomma Jan 2017 #10
Too bad, so sad! hatrack Jan 2017 #13
Here's the important thing. ananda Jan 2017 #15
Yep, about every fifth post is "Yer not gonna persecute KILLERY! Yew PROMISED!!!" hatrack Jan 2017 #16
Yeah... Miles Archer Jan 2017 #18
I'm starting to think hells Jan 2017 #17
K&R smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #21
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