Web of Cold Blooded Lies

[sunnystarr]

I realize that Eric Margolis' column in the Toronto Sun http://torontosun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2005/06/12/1083345-sun.html has already been presented to DU readers. But when I see Andrea Mitchell on DU's front page lauded and touted for verifying the Downing Street Memo/Minutes I really want to puke.

Mitchell concludes lamely, weakly and cowardly: "In fact, current and former diplomats tell NBC News they understood from the beginning the Bush policy to be that Saddam had to be removed — one way or the other. The only question was when and how."

Contrast this with Margolis:
"And so it went. Lie after lie. Scare upon scare. Fakery after fakery, trumpeted by the tame media that came to resemble the lickspittle press of the old Soviet Union. Ironically, in the end, horrid Saddam Hussein turned out to be telling the truth all along, while Bush and Blair were not."

Mitchell would have us believe that hey there's nothing new here ... nothing we didn't know and understand from the beginning.

I believe this is too important and shouldn't get lost in Mitchell's reporting of the obvious and undeniable fact that the Downing Street Memos/Minutes are authentic. Why are we so thrilled that the MSM can't mislead us once again by reporting that they are fake? They know these documents have been verified and are now in damage control by belittling, undermining, distorting, and misleading Americans on the real meaning of these disclosures.

Where are Margolis' headlines in the US Press: "Web of Cold Blooded Lies"?

[sunnystarr]

1. WOW guess I'm the only one who feels this is important ..

Color me surprised..

[calimary]

2. No, probably everyone else is on overwhelm...I mean, this shit just

does not stop!!!

Good to post reminders about this MOST superb column. More people will see it, then.

And every one of these things offers more talking points you can use in an argument with some kool-aid drinker.

[walkon]

3. One way to see it

"Mitchell would have us believe that hey there's nothing new here ... nothing we didn't know and understand from the beginning."

If this is taken as you put it then it stands as a huge indictment of the press and all the propaganda pushers. They knew and understood from the beginning - and continued their lies and deception of the American people.