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In reply to the discussion: Are we really going to pretend we were fooled into the Iraq War? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)but those of us who were working long hours, read and trusted the MSM during that time, were easily fooled.
The LA Times took its time and seemed very reluctant to even print news of the Downing Street memos.
Seems to me that most of the press hasn't to this day apologized for the sloppy reporting on the lies of the Bush administration.
And to those who say that Bush really did not know, and therefore did not lie, I challenge you to persuade me that the Bush administration could have made so many errors with regard to so much of the "evidence" they cited to justify their invasion:
1) WMDS -- there really weren't any of any importance that weren't known to the UN inspection team. This was a lie and a hoax.
2) the purchase of nuclear material from Niger -- a hoax involving obviously forged documents. (What a joke that our CIA and media couldn't see through that -- impossible.)
3) links to Al Qaeda -- obviously false and based on an unreliable source as well as a source who was tortured. Who believes that sort of "testimony" or "evidence." Clearly claiming to believe that "evidence" was a big, fat lie.
Then there are the Downing Street memos. The Blair government knew that that the war was illegal.
And people in the Bush administration knew that the war was about the oil fields in Iraq. Read "The Price of Loyalty." It is an eye-opener if you still have any doubts.
And yet, our MSM has never apologized to us, not really, about misleading us, lying to us. Have they ever taken their share of the responsibility for the deaths of our servicemen and the many Iraqis.
The MSM needs to take its share of blame and then set the record straight on the Bush administration and what it did.
The Bush administration members are not likely to be held responsible until the MSM owns up and admits that they deceived us. This is up to individual reporters and specific news media.
If the MSM can be honest with us, maybe the victims of the war, including the many survivors of our soldiers injured and killed in the Iraq War, can have some sense of completion and justice.