18 Mar 06
Originally posted by ivanhoeOh. My. God.
Here you can find the document "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America":
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss/2006/nss2006.pdf
I'd never thought I'd see another example of loaded language in a piece of propaganda like the editorial on fox news on the BBC(http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm), but w's introduction takes the biscuit.
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18 Mar 06
Originally posted by RagnorakHey Rags,
Oh. My. God.
I'd never thought I'd see another example of loaded language in a piece of propaganda like the editorial on fox news on the BBC(http://blugg.com/stuff/foxs_view_of_the_bbc_player.htm), but w's introduction takes the biscuit.
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I can't believe that Fox news guy! I mean, where does he get off? Gilligan was TELLING THE TRUTH. There were no WMD, there was no reason to believe there were WMD. The intelligence was falsified. That's been all but admitted now, but do either Bush or Blair do the honourable thing and resign?? Noooooo.
Man, talk about ignorance. I actually feel sorry for the Yanks if that's the type of crap they are being subjected to (of course, they, and only they, can change that around).
18 Mar 06
Originally posted by scottishinnzStop frothing at the mouth, america hater!
Hey Rags,
I can't believe that Fox news guy! I mean, where does he get off? Gilligan was TELLING THE TRUTH. There were no WMD, there was no reason to believe there were WMD. The intelligence was falsified. That's been all but admitted now, but do either Bush or Blair do the honourable thing and resign?? Noooooo.
Man, talk about ignorance. ...[text shortened]... of crap they are being subjected to (of course, they, and only they, can change that around).
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18 Mar 06
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Originally posted by scottishinnz(From the Economist.com, Mar 16, 2006)
Hey Rags,
I can't believe that Fox news guy! I mean, where does he get off? Gilligan was TELLING THE TRUTH. There were no WMD, there was no reason to believe there were WMD. The intelligence was falsified. That's been all but admitted now, but do either Bush or Blair do the honourable thing and resign?? Noooooo.
Man, talk about ignorance. of crap they are being subjected to (of course, they, and only they, can change that around).
New insights on what Saddam Hussein thought he was doing
WHEN the American army overran Iraq three years ago, it was famously short of military policemen, Arabic-speakers and good ideas for putting the broken country back together again. But the army's historians have since then made the most of a unique opportunity: the chance to question Saddam Hussein's top generals and advisers about what happened inside the regime before and during the war. The findings are to be published next month in a book-length report. But its authors have published a preview on the website of the New York-based journal, Foreign Affairs. It contains some riveting findings.
One of these, based mainly on the testimony of Tariq Aziz, Saddam's deputy prime minister, is that right up to the last moment the dictator did not expect America to attack, because of the faith he had in pressure from Russia and France in the UN Security Council. Mr Aziz told his interrogators that the two countries had received millions of dollars of trade and service contracts with Iraq, “with the implied understanding that their political posture ...would be pro-Iraqi”. Even after the invasion started, Saddam did not expect the Americans to fight all the way to Baghdad—a delusion that prevented him from torching his oilfields or opening the dams to flood southern Iraq. Fixated at first on internal threats, instead of the advancing American army, Saddam later came to believe that Iraq was winning, and continued to think so until American tanks reached Baghdad. His own generals were far too scared of him to risk breaking the bad news.
As for those weapons of mass destruction (WMD), it seems that some senior members of the ruling circle never stopped believing, even after the war, that Iraq had these, even though Saddam himself knew otherwise. When he revealed the truth to members of his Revolutionary Command Council not long before the war, their morale slumped. But he refused a suggestion to make the truth clear to the wider world on the ground that his presumed possession of WMD was a form of deterrence, and that coming clean might encourage an attack by Israel. Instead, of course, the dictator's non-existent WMD became one reason America gave for its decision to topple him. This was, without doubt, the mother of all ironies.