Please explain this to me. Why when the UN inspectors found no WMD,

[efhmc]

is it still bad CIA intelligence that misled the bushies? Also, please explain to me, why no one is commenting on this nationally?

[LastKnight]

1. because the national media...

are bushwhores... dont listen to em, if you want honest reporting, go to LBN section here or BBC or something... sad when we have to go to an overseas news agency to get some truth on our own current events.

-LK

[efhmc]

3. You are certainly correct about the main sources of information in the US,

but I always think there must be some new fresh person that is interested in, sees and wants to reports the truth, even in the US. Guess I am a silly optimist.

[Blue-Jay]

2. Here comes the rationale!

1) The UN is incapable of looking out for the best interests of the world and should be disbanded.

2) We need to enforce UN resolution 1441.

No conflict there, eh?

[efhmc]

4. Still, surely someone. somewhere in the country would report this

discrepancy? Don't you think?

[Blue-Jay]

6. Hasn't happened yet.

Damned liberal media screws us again.

[efhmc]

8. I like your little saxophone man.

[arcane1]

5. Hey.... stop that, that THINKING!

9/11! Terror! Mushroom clouds! 9/11!

they are still calling Saddam a liar, too, now he's a liar for admitting he had no WMD :crazy:

[efhmc]

7. Seriously, am I totally missing something? Didn't teams of UN inspectors

say (before the war) that there were no WMD to be found? Surely someone else remembers this besides us on DU.

[arcane1]

9. nope, the collective American memory is 24 hours, at most

as for the UN inspectors, Krugman mentioned today that Bush is already re-writing that, by saying Saddam didn't allow UN inspectors:

-snip-

George Bush promised to bring honor and integrity back to the White House. Instead, he got rid of accountability. Surely even supporters of the Iraq war must be dismayed by the administration's reaction to David Kay's recent statements. Iraq, he now admits, didn't have W.M.D., or even active programs to produce such weapons. Those much-ridiculed U.N. inspectors were right. (But Hans Blix appears to have gone down the memory hole. On Tuesday Mr. Bush declared that the war was justified — under U.N. Resolution 1441, no less — because Saddam "did not let us in.")


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/opinion/30KRUG.html?

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Conason brought it up Tuesday in Salon

From Salon.com
Dated Tuesday January 27

Joe Conason's Journal: Mr. Bush's fantasy planet
Bush's first attempt to answer the damning findings of David Kay did not go well -- although the White House press corps pretended not to notice.
By Joe Conason

. . . Leaving aside those incoherent references to "programs" and what the world obviously "felt," what is most notable in Bush's answer is that he again said Saddam "did not let us in." This is the second time he has made this weird statement, as if Hans Blix and UNMOVIC had never existed, nor conducted the most intrusive weapons inspections ever done in Iraq. (The first time was last July, when Bush said, in the presence of an astonished Kofi Annan: "And we gave a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in.")
How dare the press mock Howard Dean when they listen respectfully to this arrant lunacy?

Read more.

[truthspeaker]

11. that was almost a year ago

Surveys and focus groups tell the media that Americans don't remember stuff that long ago, so the media doesn't mention it in case it would hurt ratings.