At least i´m not the ONLY one who´s pissed...

i was so ticked off yesterday after reading that wapo editorial, i was literally shaking... fortunately, after making my post, i let go of it and had a very pleasant flight down here to buenos aires where, after situating myself, decided i'd go get some groceries and check in on my email, etc... the first thing i open up is robert parry's view of that same wapo editorial... i'm glad to see someone i have a lot of respect for is as pissed as i am... ('course, he's a lot more eloquent than i am and left out the obscenities, but, hey...!)

For example, many war critics asserted that Bush’s decision to take his case against Iraq to the United Nations was a ploy designed only to justify a predetermined course for invasion. In order words, the critics felt that Bush and his allies were not acting in good faith, but simply wanted some political cover for an illegal war.

That, of course, was not the judgment of editorialists at the Washington Post, the New York Times or other major newspapers who praised Bush for going to the UN on the advice of supposed moderates such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Indeed, looking back to late 2002 and early 2003, it would be hard to find any “reputable” commentary in the mainstream press calling Bush’s actions fraudulent, which is what the British evidence reveals them to be.

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But Kinsley either is a very sloppy reader or a liar. The context of Dearlove’s information is clear. It came from a meeting that Dearlove had in Washington with Bush’s National Security Council, the most authoritative source on Bush’s thinking outside of the president himself, not just from some “freelance chatterboxes.” Dearlove doesn't cite “Washington” as his source the way Kinsley says the intelligence chief does.

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But it’s easy to see why George W. Bush thinks he can continue dissembling about the Iraq War, since he’s gotten away with it for three years, as the Post and other parts of the MSM have told the public, “move along, none of your business what happened here.

just another reason why i don´t trust the msm as far as i can throw 'em...

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