Fifty percent of Americans now think Iraq had WMDs, up from thirty-six percent from last year. As more of the captured documents are translated, I would imagine this number should go up. Yet still we hear the battle cry soi-disant left: “No WMDs!” Don’t they read?
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O, they read but they care not to understand and appreciate or to publish the truth.
The latest attack book on the planning of the
war is by Tom Ricks of the WashPo, who entitles his book “Fiasco.” It is glorified in the Times this morning. Next time in your local Borders check out the titles, invariably hyperbolic and politicized, the meat for the liberal maw against Bush. All this ranting eventually sloughs over to the middle class voter turing the electorate against the war and the president. Images on TV are always “if it bleed, it leads” especially from Baghdad. Beirut is a distraction from the media onslaught against the president.
You have lies by commission or ommision. Our main stream media lies mostly by omission although there are very famous cases of outright lies such as the one Rather/Mapes tried to pull off before the last election. Its hard to figure out just what the causes of this might be, most reporters hold themselves above our citizenship, they think they are citizens of the world and are above patriotism for our country. The seem embarresed to be Americans, they are like the Marxist of old who couldn’t see underside of communism, the gulags, the executions cells and hailed it as nirvana found. They have been taught to be objective with the thugs and killers, to see both sides, they are all becoming Walter Duranty’s. You won’t see this information taken from Saddam’s documents in the MSM.
Well, they always say that truth will out.
Incidentally, Ed at Captain’s Quarters has been doing a fine job of explaining various of Saddaam’s classified documents. Must-reads.
I never thought that Iraq didn’t have WMD. I just thought Saddam was smarter than the leftist MSM!
My fantasy, on Katie Couric’s first day of reporting as CBS’s Anchorwoman is breaking the news to all Americans that alas, Iraq did have WMD. Heh.
re: polls (and the received wisdom
Are imprecise instruments. As is english. It is unfortunate that essay questions are too hard to ask and analyze.
If the poll communicated the President’s concern the majority would answer generally in the affirmative both of: (1) “Must Hussein go now (willingly, bribed, or by force) because he and his dictatorship can not be trusted (or contained, or deterred) NOT to give WMD capabilities to terrorists?” and (2) “Do you agree that regimes with a history like Hussein’s must go given what we have learned from 9-11?”
re: sins of omission.
I suspect the majority of voters would also respond in the affirmative to the Moussaoui question – “Do you believe that Hussein and/or his secret police (and his worldwide spies and agents) had enough information that if they had a mind to, they could have stopped or derailed 9-11?”.
Moussaoui was convicted and sentenced to life (narrowly missing a death sentence) for knowing about 9-11 but doing nothing to prevent it.
Irrespective of what the elites and MSM would like to think they have taught us unwashed, we are mostly unmoved by the repetition of the big lie(s) – and continue to be amused by their inability to hold up a mirror. A dispassionate history will be written in a few decades, and those that still care will be able to point at it and say “yes, character did, and still does, matter.”
“Irrespective of what the elites and MSM would like to think they have taught us unwashed, we are mostly unmoved by the repetition of the big lie(s)…”
Exactly. Your typical clueless, never thought about this stuff before, voter believes the MSM right up until the moment that the MSM gets caught on an issue–one that particular voter cares enough to check. After that, chalk up another person that starts reading the press a bit more skeptically. The MSM trains people not to trust it. No wonder their approval ratings are below presidents and congresses.
“”No WMDs!” Don’t they read?”
That would be clouding the issue with facts, which is absolutely not acceptable.
Lets’ more usefully summarize the situation.
The MSM insits on maintaining a categorical differences on the WMD issue. But the truth is that facts that muddy that insistence were there when the Duelfer Report came out. Saddam did want sanctions off; Saddam was prepared to re-start his nuke program (see “The Bomb in My Garden) whenever that happened; Saddam did have UN prohibited missiles and old chemical ordinance neither accounted for nor destroyed as required; Saddam did reward his team responsible for producing hydrogen for alleged weather ballons – but a bonus of $30 million?
The truth is that the categorical imperative doesn’t pass the smell test! But find that anywhere in the MSM? Nope.
Seconding ahem’s comments, please note Captain Ed’s post this afternoon (Friday) regarding Iraq’s WMDs:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007645.php
In a nutshell, another recently declassified document confirms the movements of Iraqi convoys into Syria one week before the war began in 2003.
After the trucks completed their delivery, the author of the document met with a former Iraqi embassy counselor in Syria. The author reports the following exchange took place:
“… I visited him, told him ?Iraqi weapons got inside Syria?, he replied ?who told you?, I said ?I have my own resources?, he replied ?don?t tell any one about that because actually it is inside?.”