The Globe’s editorial board weighs in on "CBS’s Severe Stumble" and I quote:
Diehard Republicans see dark political motives in the decision to broadcast a damaging story attacking President Bush’s military service in the middle of an election campaign. The reasons for this are obvious. The major US networks, with the notable exception of the Fox News Network and its staunch bias in favour of the Bush Administration, have grown increasingly critical of the administration’s handling of the Iraq war. And both CBS and Mr. Rather, the highly visible long-time anchor of its nightly newscast, have often been accused in the past of harbouring a liberal democratic bias.
What do you call it, when a news organization in the middle of an election campaign broadcasts a piece based on forged documents (that their own document experts warned were highly suspicious) which slanders the reputation of one of the candidates? Is fake but accurate now a valid defence?
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I've got a better one for you. Q: What do you call it when a country uses forged documents to "prove" that an other country is building nuclear weapons, as a pretext for invasion? A: Standard operational behaviour for the Bush Administration.
1. The Coalition invasion of Iraqi was not based on the Saddam restarting his nuclear weapon plan.
2. You need to get out more. Your behind the 8 ball here. Check out what MAHDI OBEIDI has to say about Saddam and his nuclear aspirations - and he ought to know.
3. Though I am not inclined to help out Saddam Apologists, read these - then we can talk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/opinion/26obeidi.html?oref=login&th=&pagewanted=print&position=
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/26/wiran26.xml
Since we are exchanging url's go read this. Read it carefully. It comes not from a Saddam lover, but from a Wall Street Journal reporter in Bagdad. The dream is almost over. Time to wake up.
I read your link very carefully. The problem with your source is that it is intelluctually dishonest. It is the email example of broken telephone. You sent me to forum run by the Poynter, but the letter posted there had already made the runs of extreme left wing internet blogs before it was used online at the Poynter forum. There is no proof that it is was actually from Farnaz Fassihi. Its a case of he said, she said, he said, she said.
It Iraq hard going? Absolutely, but again, most of the country is on the right track. You have to look at who is fighting and what are they fighting for - the same people who are opposing the liberation want to either go back to a Saddam like thug or set up a theocracy much like Iran. Either way, the iraqi people lose.
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