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09/17/2003 Archived Entry: "More from LATimes"
More from LA Times
The drumbeat gets louder....
It's hard to believe that it was just a slip of the tongue rather than a calculated lie when Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz sullied the memory of those who died on 9/11 by exploiting their deaths for propaganda purposes. The brainwashing of Americans, two-thirds of whom believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks, is too effective a political ploy for the Bush regime to suddenly let the truth get in the way."We know [Iraq] had a great deal to do with terrorism in general and with Al Qaeda in particular and we know a great many of [Osama] bin Laden's key lieutenants are now trying to organize in cooperation with old loyalists from the Saddam regime " Wolfowitz told ABC on this year's 9/11 anniversary.
We know nothing of the sort, of course, and the next day Wolfowitz was forced to admit it. He told Associated Press that his remarks referred not to a "great many" of Bin Laden's lieutenants but rather to a single Jordanian, Abu Musab Zarqawi. "[I] should have been more precise," Wolfowitz admitted.
Even if the leaders of the Bush team were half as smart as they think they are, it would be amazing that they "misspoke" as often as they have. As happened Sunday when Tim Russert challenged Vice President Dick Cheney to defend his claim, made on "Meet the Press" before the war, that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons. "Yeah, I did misspeak," Cheney admitted. "We never had any evidence that [Hussein] had acquired a nuclear weapon."
The pattern is clear: Say what you want people to believe for the front page and on TV, then whisper a halfhearted correction or apology that slips under the radar. It is really quite ingenious in its cynical effectiveness, and Wolfowitz's latest performance is a classic example — even his correction needs correcting.
Replies: 2 people speak up
things must be worse than i think if they are actually telling the truth about this (well, sort of telling the truth, i guess more like not specifically lying ) if they are actually letting this slip, just imagine the lies that we dont know about that they are trying to cover for by telling the truth on this one. the problem is that bush supporters dont watch the news, or if the do, its local news at night, they most likely dont have the attention span for something that in depth, with no stories about kittens stuck in trees, or weather reports. i wonder, if something really damning came out, do you think that the news would even cover it? or has america really become the drooling 3000 foot tall nazi supermonster tht the rest of the world sees us as?
Posted by justin @ 09/18/2003 10:12 AM NY
A moment on previous 'Meet The Press' Safire asks Broder "You don't think he (president) lied, do you?" - Russert intervened to prevent any answer. Well, Safire, Broder, Russert, what do you think now??
Posted by Gerry O'Reilly @ 09/18/2003 05:34 PM NY
