Questions from Within: Stop Dubious Iraq Stories!

[Atman]

This story is as interesting for its SOURCE as for its content....

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DECEMBER 19, 2003
When Will Press Stop Circulating Dubious Iraq Claims?
Atta-Hussein Document Probably Bogus

By Greg Mitchell

NEW YORK -- NEWS ANALYSIS

When will the press stop circulating dubious or fabricated claims -- whether from Bush administration officials or intelligence abroad? The latest chapter unfolded this week with wide publicity -- capped by a favorable mention in a William Safire column in The New York Times on Monday and the usual hosannas on Fox News -- concerning a supposed document that linked 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta to Saddam Hussein.

This sort of "evidence," which surfaces periodically, is significant, as polls have always shown that one of the major reasons the public supported the invasion of Iraq was belief that Saddam helped plan the 9/11 attacks. Even after more than two years have passed -- and no hard evidence of that uncovered -- a poll earlier this week showed that slightly more than half of all Americans still believe that to be true, suggesting that perhaps the press has not really done its job in debunking this belief.

Now appears a document linking Atta to Hussein, which comes amid reports that the U.S. chief weapons inspector is about to call it quits, having failed to uncover any weapons of mass destruction.

There's only one problem: Just like every other bit of paper linking Saddam to 9/11 (some of them also touted by Safire), the latest document appears to be bogus. Yet many in the press keep taking them seriously. MORE

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2056015

[Rainbows]

1. I'd say consider the source and ignore it ...

but unfortunatly mainstream America reads it once and believes it, reads it twice its gospel, reads it a third time and votes republican.

[fineyounglib]

2. Clinton - Tied them together

Unfortunately - Stories have broken lately about Clinton tying the two together.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/10/29/mylroie/

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[windansea]

4. you might find this info interesting re: anthrax

Look for this title
Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Anthrax - Again

http://www.corante.com/pipeline/20031201.shtml#62226