The MSM distortions, under reporting and downright misreporting pose a real threat to the future of this country. The effort is one that is played to and fed by politicians who have a stake in seeing the current administration fail.
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Wow! This could be big. The Weekly Standard has an explosive story on Saddam Hussein’s Terror Training Camps. Here’s the opening paragraph to wet your appetite: THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists…

The Weekly Standard (via IRIS Blog and Austin Bay Blog) presents another very good reason why the dictatorship of Saddam had to be brought down

And ditto what PCD just said.

As Home would say, Doh!!

As far as the rest, the Nation to me is a far less biased source than WS. The others I am not so sure about. And as far as being panicked, I’m far from it. I’d be willing to bet money that, just from the way it’s written, most of Hayes’ report will turn out to be hot air. Any takers? I’ll go as high as a nickle…

Ken G.

Tom The RedHunter is spot on….

I can feel the panicked breeze of the Liberal air rushing out of their balloon so strongly it blew my grandfathers toupee into the bean dip.

You know, listing to the left on this board, the enemies are real dumb and can’t pick up intelligence and need their civil rights protected. Why? So they can attack us. Why? Because steve, ken, and others think some leftwing nut government will sweep into power, evidently.

For Ken to pretend that all of this his new news because of the Weekly Standard article is laughable. I’ve been bookmarking artifcles on Saddam and terrorism for a couple of years now.

I think Ken is just in a panic because he hears the air rushing out of his balloon….

Thanks for informing us ST !

God Bless.

Hayes has been on top of the AQ/Iraq connections from the start. I dare say he’s made a more convincing case to the American people than the admin has, in retrospect. But in the end, people will believe what they want to be. Saddam himself could admit to terror ties and some people still wouldn’t believe it. So be it.

Hayes, who works for the highly partisan Republican PR outlet the “Weekly Standard”, attributes his assertions to a dozen or so un-named “officials”. Someone makes Republican Representative Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, aware of these claims and even lists some documents he should see.

Rep Hoekstra (again, REPUBLICAN chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) asks the Admin to provide the documents – documents that would be very politically helpful to a very politically troubled President – and Hoekstra is rebuffed?

Right.

This sets so many alram bells ringing about these so-called “confirming” documents that I may go deaf from the noise.

More particularly interesting is the comment by Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita. Quoting from the article: The main worry, says DiRita, is that the mainstream press might cherry-pick documents and mischaracterize their meaning. “There is always the concern that people would be chasing a lot of information good or bad, and when the Times or the Post splashes a headline about some sensational-sounding document that would seem to ‘prove’ that sanctions were working, or that Saddam was just a misunderstood patriot, or some other nonsense, we’d spend a lot of time chasing around after it.”

Hmmm. So they can’t release the documents because the alledgedly liberal Times and the Post would abuse them.

The Times, who’s great Jopurnalistic stars Judith Miller and Bob Woodward turned out to have such incestuous relationships with the Admin that they and their work is now discredited – she’s been fired, but only after the Times was so beat up over it they had to do so. Who so willingly carried water for the Bush Admin’s PR campaign during the run up to the war.

Could this by chance actually be a case of the Pot calling the Kettle Black? Blaiming the Victim? Political slight of hand?

Sounds to me as if the reality is that most of the documents would actually be damaging to the Admin, and that’s why they’re not being released, and why instead we’re seeing this sudden leak of unverifiable “confirmation” hitting the right-wing PR machine.

Why didn’t they go to their buddies at the Times with it? Or CNBC? Or any of the other media outlets? What about Fox? Was this too disceditable for even Fox to run with it? Only The Weekly Standard, who nobody but the extreme right takes seriously, gets the story. I’m not buying it.

I strongly suspect this will turn out to be either a non-story, or one that will turn out to be quite the opposite of what is being presented.

We’ll have to wait and see. I won’t be holding my breath…

Ken G