U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq - Democratic Underground

smartass

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Sat Mar-20-04 07:57 AM
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U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq

I don't know how reliable this article is but I'm sure that it was inevitable that the Bush team would eventually plant the WMD in Iraq So pathetic.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=3/13/2004&Cat=4&Num=011

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Mistress Quickly

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:02 AM
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1. Yeah, the Tehran Times

no bias there.

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DoYouEverWonder

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:09 AM
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2. No worse than anyone else, including the NY Times

Everyone has a bias.

Besides they reported Saddam's capture first. FAUX didn't have a clue until 8 hours later.

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JAbuchan08

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Sat Mar-20-04 11:35 AM
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12. The CNN news ticker mentioned that WMD "might still be found"

If they are "found" I won't be surprised.

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napi21

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:11 AM
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3. Read this on here a few days ago.

I don't know that I've heard of the Iran journalists being much of a source of reliable info.

The tactic wouldn't surprise me, but the sources have to be more credible that this.

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smartass

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:23 AM
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4. How reliable was the corporate media when it reported that

Osama's #2 was surrounded in Pakistan? How reliable is the corporate media in its coverage (falg waving) of the Iraq war. Inbedded jouranalists, lol.

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napi21

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:38 AM
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6. Yes, but when have you even heard a report from an Iranian journalist?

I'm not trying to put this story down. I HOPE if it's true, it gets as much publicity as possible. I'm juse concerned that Iran is not going to be believed, and these plants could appear to be real in the "accepted" reports.

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smartass

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Sat Mar-20-04 09:01 AM
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8. Good point. I don't know but I do know that I can't trust the

corporate american media to its job. I know that the Tehran Times broke the Sadaam capture story. I know that Al Jazeera has broken a lot of credible stories. It's no accident that Arab journalists were targeted by the US military during the Afghan and Iraq war in order to intimidate them.

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ithacan

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:26 AM
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5. this is very believable

not because of the source but because of the modus operandi.

The Bushies have discovered that they can say red is green, keep repeating it over and over and over again. Those who point out that they are lying are ignored or downplayed or dismissed.

They get away with it.

SO they plant WMD, declare that this "proves" that Saddam was an immenent threat to the US, the media refuses to do its job and investigate this unlikely find, you know the rest of the story.

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napi21

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Sat Mar-20-04 08:42 AM
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7. I agree. How can we force the media to do it's job?

I think "something" has changed the general media to finally point out some of *'s downsides. I have to believe it's because his ratings have dropped so they are less afraid of everybody turing against them.

Maybe there is a chance someone will start reporting what seems to be the truth.

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smartass

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Sat Mar-20-04 09:03 AM
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9. I believe that we need individual ownership of media. This monopoly

of corporate owned media refueses to check and balance itself.

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Solomon

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Sat Mar-20-04 10:13 AM
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10. It's okay. The only suckers who will believe we found wmds are

americans looking to hang their hat on any peg. The rest of the world will know its bullshit, and despite our arrogance in thinking we don't need anybody else in the world, it will have negative consequences for us. In fact, even americans will know it's bullshit, but sadly, truth no longer matters for us, we just need a hook to hang an argument on.

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Intelsucks

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Sat Mar-20-04 10:29 AM
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11. No WMD's will be planted by anyone... It's way too risky

All it would take is one leak... One person to shoot their mouth off, and you would have the most embarrassing political blunder in history.

No WMD's have been found because there aren't any to be found. None will be planted either. Even Bush isn't that stupid.

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napi21

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Sat Mar-20-04 11:46 AM
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13. I'm not sure if I want you to be right or wrong?

You say Buch isn't that stupid....I'm not sure. Sometimes over confidence and arrogance over-rides stupidity.

I don't know if I want you to be right and he won't "find" some, or if I want the most embarrasing blunder of the century to show the world what he really is.

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