Reality Check Needed Re: The Blair Memo and US Media

[BurtWorm]

Is it peculiar that the Washington Post and the New York Times (to name two of the alleged creme de la creme of American media) are totally ignoring the revelation that the British government knew in July 2002 that the US was going to war in Iraq while the American people (a.k.a., the American suckers) were led to believe that would only happen in certain circumstances?

The cynic in me is not at all surprised, but the idealist is outraged and suspicious of a conspiracy of silence. Who is right?

[bennywhale]

1. Get BBC World

or search 'The Independent' and 'The Guardian' or 'The New Statesman' on the internet.

They're the closest you'll get to the truth and its very interesting stuff

[wtbymark]

2. MSM is definitely shuting up

an American tragedy has happened to our media, they are no longer independent, objective or investigative whatsoever. They've become the mouthpiece for the politbureau ooops I mean "administration".

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. To give them their due, the Washington Post covered this a week ago

But the debate over pre-war decision making is demanding Blair's attention and, based on the media coverage, may be taking a toll on Labor. The latest revelation, published in The Sunday Times over the weekend, is that Blair privately told President Bush in April 2002 that Britain would support "regime change" by force in Iraq. At the time Blair told the British public that no decisions had been made about going to war.

The story was a sensation because it was based on a "Secret and Strictly Personal" memo about a July 2002 meeting Blair had with British defense and intelligence officials in which top officials expressed doubts about the justification for attacking Iraq.

According to the memo, Foreign Minister Jack Straw told those assembled that the case for war was "thin" because Saddam Hussein "was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/02/03/AR2005040701070.html

at least online (I note it doesn't give a page number).

[BurtWorm]

4. The Times also wrote about the memo--as a British news story.

The Times and Post are pretending that it means nothing to Americans.

[Al-CIAda]

5. The presstitutes for corpraganda are DONE. Democracy is OVER

We are FUCKED.

[BigBearJohn]

6. OUTSIDE our country, the press is going wild (see below)

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m11627&l=i&size=1&hd=0