Patrick Cockburn: This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-this-is-the-war-that-started-with-lies-and-continues-with-lie-after-lie-after-lie-797788.html

Wednesday, 19 March 2008


It has been a war of lies from the start. All governments lie in wartime but American and British propaganda in Iraq over the past five years has been more untruthful than in any conflict since the First World War.


The outcome has been an official picture of Iraq akin to fantasy and an inability to learn from mistakes because of a refusal to admit that any occurred. Yet the war began with just such a mistake. Five years ago, on the evening of 19 March 2003, President George Bush appeared on American television to say that military action had started against Iraq.

[jimshoes]

1. The history of this ignoble endeavor

is being written now. And I would like for history to record all the liars, con artists, war profiteers and media types who have been purposefully abetting and supporting the administration so that there can never be any question as to whose fault the blame for this crime against humanity ultimately falls.

[Clear Blue Sky]

2. It's a big house of cards...

[Orsino]

3. The war is going well, if you look at it the right way.

Specifically, backwards: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=164644&title=iraq-the-first-5-years

Skip to about 4:15 for the best bits.