Audacity of Truth
Rahmbo:
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-Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) on Obama's COS, 3/7/10
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The NYT’s cooked up editorial
First the editorial, on the now-debunked but widely talked about news reports from several news outlets about pre-war Iraq intelligence reports that were supposedly ‘cooked up’ to fit the admin’s agenda of ‘forcing a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda’.
Now, the smackdown of that editorial: from Curt at Flopping Aces, who provides link after link of evidence to the contrary of the NYT’s editorial, including this video from ABC News from 1999, recaptured by John Hinderaker at Powerline, that is like a trip down memory lane in terms of detailing the contacts believed by the prior administration to have existed between Iraq and AQ, too:
Make sure to read at the Powerline post what Iraq/AQ terrorist links researcher Thomas Joscelyn has to say about the media – and Dem (but I repeat myself) – spin on this story.
Update: For laughs, check out the predictable left’s response to reporting of the admin’s alleged ‘cooked up’ links here (the Hullabaloo link).
Read more via: Jules Crittenden, Macsmind, Tom Maguire, neo-neocon
Prior/Related:
- AP hit piece on the belief that Iraq possessed WMDs – a mini-fisking
- More on Saddam’s WMD capabilities
- DOD: Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria
- Hoekstra and Santorum to intelligence community: Declassify more WMD-related documents, and quit downplaying them
- Even more documents show Saddam targeted US interests
- Documents show more collaboration between AQ and Iraq
- Saddam’s Philippines terror connection
- Batch of pre-war Afghanistan and Iraq documents are released
- Prepare to learn more about Saddam’s WMD intentions
- House Permanent Select Committee to review Saddam recordings
- The Syria/Iraq WMD connection
- Saddam’s #2 air force official: WMDs were moved to Syria
- Confirmed: Iraq was a terrorist training center
- Pentagon briefing docs on Iraq/AQ connection from 2002
- Where did the WMDs go?
- If Bush “lied”, so did others
- Pre-war Iraq and Syria: closer than we thought
- AQ/SH connections: Must read
- More evidence of OBL/Hussein connections
- Iraq and Al Qaeda: More connections
- No terrorism in Iraq before the war?
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Liberals and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have taken a page right out of the former Soviet Union’s and Orwell’s MiniTruth playbook, erase any inconvenient information or history that conflicts with your current spin. Just as the USSR airbrushed out people who were no longer acceptable, and Orwell’s MiniTruth (Ministry of Truth) removed stories and people, made them disappear from all records, so the lib/Dems are lying and distorting and pretending like what they did and said in the past never existed. And the insulting thing is that they expect us to just nod our heads and agree with them that the past never existed. And the depressing thing is that so many of the deluded fools out there that makeup the MSM and liberal voters go along with it.
It doesn’t matter any more. We know the truth and the left know it’s “truth”. Saddam could come back from the dead and confess to WMD, Niger uranium purchases and nuke weapon programs and the left would call it a Bush conspiracy to force them to believe in the afterlife and God…
Somebody needs to get that Nina Easton video and post it. She was just on Fox News Sunday and said that the war in Iraq was not justified due to Iraq and Al Qaeda links – she said if you go back it was always about WMD’s and the intelligence on that from the 2002 NIE report was wrong as it had been wrong for years even before Bush.
Unfortunately no matter if the video is played 10 times daily on CNN liberals will be making false accusations about Bush cooking the intelligence or whatever.
So in 1999, ABC News – a card-carrying member of the MSM establishment – was able to air a report detailing some of the cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. But suddenly, as soon as Bush became president, we were supposed to believe that the two had nothing to do with each other. Somehow, we’re expected to forget what was already known and conclude that Bush and some cabal of neocons drove AQ into Saddam’s arms.
Why the 180 degree change? Simple – it would help Dems get elected. It would be too much to expect your average liberal to stick to principles here and say, wait a minute – that isn’t what you said two years ago. Given the choice between having America succeed fighting terrorism or having America fail fighting terrorism, the left wants failure – as long as there’s a Republican president who might accrue some benefit from our success. It’s one more bit of evidence that the left puts achieving power over the good of the nation.
The New York Times new motto: “The facts are completely irrelevant“.
The NY Times is putting thier politics in front of thier patriotism? I think I’ve seen this before. Let’s see, they screwed up the swift program. They screwed up our eavesdrop programs. The list is pretty long, so I’ll just leave it at those 2.