Patrick Cockburn: This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie

[marmar]

from the Independent UK:



Patrick Cockburn: This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie
Wednesday, 19 March 2008


It has been a war of lies from the start. All governments lie in wartime but American and British propaganda in Iraq over the past five years has been more untruthful than in any conflict since the First World War.

The outcome has been an official picture of Iraq akin to fantasy and an inability to learn from mistakes because of a refusal to admit that any occurred. Yet the war began with just such a mistake. Five years ago, on the evening of 19 March 2003, President George Bush appeared on American television to say that military action had started against Iraq.

This was a veiled reference to an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein by dropping four 2,000lb bombs and firing 40 cruise missiles at a place called al-Dura farm in south Baghdad, where the Iraqi leader was supposedly hiding in a bunker. There was no bunker. The only casualties were one civilian killed and 14 wounded, including nine women and a child.

On 7 April, the US Ai r Force dropped four more massive bombs on a house where Saddam was said to have been sighted in Baghdad. "I think we did get Saddam Hussein," said the US Vice President, Dick Cheney. "He was seen being dug out of the rubble and wasn't able to breathe."

Saddam was unharmed, probably because he had never been there, but 18 Iraqi civilians were dead. One US military leader defended the attacks, claiming they showed "US resolve and capabilities".

Mr Cheney was back in Baghdad this week, five years later almost to the day, to announce that there has been "phenomenal" improvements in Iraqi security. Within hours, a woman suicide bomber blew herself up in the Shia holy city of Kerbala, killing at least 40 and wounding 50 people. Often it is difficult to know where the self-deception ends and the deliberate mendacity begins. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-this-is-the-war-that-started-with-lies-and-continues-with-lie-after-lie-after-lie-797788.html

[Diclotican]

1. marmar

marmar

When you have been lying for 8 year, you have to stick to the "lying" all the way to the finish line... The start of the Iraq war was a lie, the whole affair was a big fat lie

And now, they have just to start lying for the the next year or so, and then them are "Home free" they believe..

It is pondering that many american are reading English news paper, to get information about the state of affair in your own country. When will the american public, who doesn't read English, news paper, og have no access to the internet know the truth?.. When the news paper are working overtime to get the story right, after mr Bush are out of office.. It looks like the only way the american public would know the truth from all the lie, are when mr Bush, mr Cheney and the rest of this administration are out of office.. Because then the american news paper, who once was one of the greatest power in this world, would possible start to act as that they once was. The correction to the misuse of governance.. Maybe they even get mr Cheney and mr Bush put into prison with all the Revelations about what have been happened for 8 year?

Diclotican

Sorry my bad English, not my native language

[marmar]

2. There is nothing wrong with your English, Diclotican....

:hi:

[Diclotican]

3. marmar

marmar

Thank you. Are using the Check spelling often, to get it right :toast: It is a gentle information that I am not a English speaking person. Was meet with the "grammar police" first time I was here to write, so it is a little information.

Hope you, and your family, and all here at DU have a good easter;)

Diclotican