From Media whores online - the fact that the media knows Bush is lying when he says he was only continuing the Clinton policy (as O'Neill and Bob Reich and Greg Theilman, retired Director of Intel for State have all pointed out), and today w O'Neill runs like the Mafia mob folks had spoken to him about his family last night, and no one in the media comments on these things. Is the media just owned by the GOP - or is it scared? Two impeachable lies - he lied about adopting the previous administration's policy, and he lied about eliminating WMDs as the objective of the Iraq invasion - and the US Media says nothing.
How do we get any media exposure of the obvious - or will the media just sell our guy as an insult comic that need not be taken seriously?
http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/HE CAN'T STOP LYING - LATEST IRAQ RATIONALE: BUSH "INHERITED"
AND ADOPTED IRAQ REGIME CHANGE - POLICY FROM CLINTON - BUT BUSH OFFICIALS PREVIOUSLY SAID - CLINTON POLICY NOT OPERATIVE IN BUSH ADMIN - COLIN, CONDI SAID BUSH'S POSITION WAS THAT -MURDEROUS TYRANT COULD REMAIN IN POWER - POWELL: "ALL WE'RE INTERESTED IN IS DISARMAMENT"
Eric Alterman cites the latest Bush rationale for the Iraq invasion - one that has replaced the elimination of WMDs as the primary goal with "regime change" as the sole objective -...“It’s no big deal that Bush and company were plotting the invasion of Iraq in January of 2001 without ever mentioning it in the election; that was the policy of the Clinton administration too. Everybody wanted to overthrow Saddam Hussein.” Or in other words, “Why is this even news? Let’s get back to what a brave selfless leader we have.”
Altercation
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/<snip>Bush, asked Monday about O'Neill's assertion that Hussein's removal was discussed by the White House National Security Council 10 days after his inauguration, said his actions were consistent with those of the Clinton administration before it.<snip>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimes_ts/20040113/ts_latimes/whitehouserespondstoo39neill39scriticisms<snip>But in this flashback we see that Bush Regime officials specifically stated that the Clinton administration's policy was inoperative.
Saddam could stay in power
By Joyce Howard Price
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Two top Bush administration officials said yesterday that America would accept the continuation of Saddam Hussein‘s regime if Iraq disarms, apparently backing away from the official U.S. policy of seeking the ouster of the dictator.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said in television interviews yesterday that a disarmed Saddam could remain in power, and Mr. Powell said that is now President Bush‘s position.
"Remember where regime change came from — it came from the previous administration," Mr. Powell said on NBC‘s "Meet the Press."
That demand, he said, "came out of the Congress in 1998, when it was thought the only way to get rid of weapons of mass destruction was to change the regime. We will see whether
cooperate or not."
http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/2159.html