We Were Not Lying
So the Bush gang are now furiously backpedalling. Bush has announced he believes Iraq may have destroyed any banned weapons before the US invasion, while Bush Gang insiders claim it’s all a matter of “emphasis” as the mass media primes the public for a “victory” speech soon from Bush, absent of any WMD smoking guns or a coherent Iraqi replacement regime.
Iraq may have rid itself of weapons of mass destruction in advance of a U.S.-led attack that was launched in the name of disarming that country, President George W. Bush said yesterday.
Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam’s weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans. “We were not lying,” said one official. “But it was just a matter of emphasis.”
Earlier here.
interesting. i posted to kw a link to an abc news story on this today, before seeing your piece. “pedal backwards” was what occurred to me too.
This most recent propaganda campaign seems characterised by ineptitude. At least durig the previous Gulf War they had the nous to concoct the story about the Iraqi soldiers flinging the premature babies out of Kuwaiti incubators, and have it delivered by a cute 15-year-old crying girl. That lie lasted for a couple of years! For this Gulf War, we get Donald Rumsfeld licking his lips and feeling his gonads. Oh dear.