 tpq62 says: Just out of curiosity I revisited the memory hole and the debate that seemed to happen everywhere except in the media. I thought this was a pretty good example of silenced part of that debate. Well done.... There is also the developing myth that everyone believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. That is crap. Other countries intelligence agencies knew that our reasons for invading were based on unreliable sources. Anybody who chose to use the internet when the neoconservatives were screaming and questioning everybody's patriotism knew that Scott Ritter, Hans Blix, and others knew their was no nuclear program and that WMD's had been destroyed. There is also the developing myth that everyone believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.True. That was the motivation for this clip. It dates back to the days before the invasion and is a reminder of the arguments. The evidence of WMDs was insufficient at best; "sexed up" at worst. This was vociferously argued at the time. The current situation in Iraq was also predictable to anyone with half a brain. This was also argued. These, now common-sense, observations were greeted with vituperation by the media, both "mainstream" and right-wing. But now through some sort of Stalinist double-think, the devotees of The Base are arguing that there was never any deb... |
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