CNN's Malveaux uncritically aired Bush claim that Iraq terrorists "attacked us" on 911

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200707130007?f=h_top

On the July 12 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, during a report on President Bush's press conference about the administration's just-released Initial Benchmark Assessment Report, CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux stated that according to Bush, U.S. troops "must now stay in Iraq to fight Al Qaeda, the terrorist group that was largely absent there before the U.S. invaded." Malveaux then aired a clip of Bush asserting: "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." Malveaux reported Bush's assertion without challenge despite numerous recent news reports that have cited intelligence officials and other experts disputing the notion that the Sunni insurgent group "Al Qaeda in Iraq" is linked to the group led by Osama bin Laden, which was responsible for the 9-11 attacks. Indeed, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, several members of the media have documented the Bush administration's efforts to conflate the two in order to misleadingly claim that the war in Iraq is now against bin Laden's Al Qaeda.

For example, a June 28 McClatchy Newspapers article -- with the headline "Bush plays Al Qaida card to bolster support for Iraq policy" -- noted that Bush's description of Al Qaeda as "the main enemy" in Iraq was "rejected by his administration's senior intelligence analysts":

Facing eroding support for his Iraq policy, even among Republicans, President Bush on Thursday called al Qaida "the main enemy" in Iraq, an assertion rejected by his administration's senior intelligence analysts.

The reference, in a major speech at the Naval War College that referred to al Qaida at least 27 times, seemed calculated to use lingering outrage over the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to bolster support for the current buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq, despite evidence that sending more troops hasn't reduced the violence or sped Iraqi government action on key issues.

Bush called al Qaida in Iraq the perpetrator of the worst violence racking that country and said it was the same group that had carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

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1. Never Could Stand That hag (nt)

[Double T]

2. CNN's Malveaux is a bush-bot ass kissing shill for the WH..........

and rethug party.

[Grandrose]

3. Nitwit = Malveaux !

Depending on which choice is made, the literal meaning is that the 'nitwit' either has no brain at all or just an exceedingly tiny one.....
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