60 Minutes of Revisionism on the Iraq "War"

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http://pacificfreepress.com/content/view/2248/1/

There’s a cynical old saying that the victors write the history. CBS’s “60 Minutes” demonstrated how that process works on Jan. 27 in airing Scott Pelley’s interview with the FBI agent who de-briefed former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

On Dec. 7, 2002, Iraq even sent to the United Nations a 12,000-page declaration explaining how its WMD stockpiles had been eliminated. In fall 2002, Hussein’s government also allowed teams of U.N. inspectors into Iraq and gave them free rein to examine any site of their choosing.

Those inspections only ended in March 2003 when President George W. Bush decided to press ahead with war despite the U.N. Security Council’s refusal to authorize the invasion and its desire to give the U.N. inspectors time to finish their work.

But none of that reality is part of the history that Americans are supposed to know. The officially sanctioned U.S. account, as embraced by Bush in speech after speech, is that Saddam Hussein “chose war” by defying the U.N. over the WMD issue and by misleading the world into believing that he still possessed these weapons.

In line with Bush’s version of history, “60 Minutes” correspondent Pelley asked FBI interrogator George Piro why Hussein kept pretending that he had WMD even as U.S. troops massed on Iraq’s borders, when a simple announcement that the WMD was gone would have prevented the war.

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1. Pelley has earned his RW shill stripes over, and over, and over again. nt

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2. That Pelley character is real propagandist, Iraq was telling the world

that didn't have any WMD but Bush and the corporate media said they were lying. Even the inspectors were saying there weren't any WMD but Bush and the corporate media said they were being duped. 60 minutes use to be a good program but now their just as worthless as the rest of the corporate controlled media.

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3. I was expecting to see "Dems forced a reluctant W to do it" - it'll come though...

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4. Is Pelley that dumb?

Or does he think his audience has that short a memory? Over and over again, Hussein denied having any weapons, and he was backed up all the way by the independent inspectors. The only people who kept saying that Hussein had these terrible weapons were Bush - who didn't have any reason for his assertion - and the media cheerleaders who so desperately wanted to polish their resumes with "war correspondent" for the anticipated month's work.

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5. Saddam was begging for the CIA to come and search or WMDs

That is the dead giveaway that Pelley really is that dumb.

Don

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6. How can anyone believe that Iraq "chose war" - Iraq didn't attack the United States.

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But what I find even more disgusting than the United States attack on Iraq, is that no other nation came to the aid of Iraq under an illegal and unwarranted bombardment from a nation half way across the globe.

This is alarming.

That all those countries with the capability to have helped Iraq

didn't.

And still are bowing to the wishes of the USA

ain't gonna last, this bowing to the USA

but millions are dying and suffering while politicians waffle.

We are in for major adjustments in our attitudes

War has to stop - but it will be decades or centuries before this happens

I will not see peace on earth in my lifetime

Thanks to the USA