tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post4664707622428981031..comments2023-12-03T02:23:12.272-06:00Comments on BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com: Slicing Through 'Surge' Propaganda: Haven't We Heard It All Before?Marc McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-45022156683851537502008-07-27T01:50:00.000-05:002008-07-27T01:50:00.000-05:00re:>>>Everything you Liberals have>>...re:<BR/>>>>Everything you Liberals have<BR/>>>>said about the Iraq War has<BR/>>>>turned out to not be true.<BR/><BR/>"George W. Bush and other top White House officials issued almost one thousand false statements about the national security threat from Iraq following the September 11 attacks, according to a study by two not-for-profit organisations.<BR/><BR/>The Associated Press reports the study, published on the website of the Centre for Public Integrity, concluded the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanised public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretences”. <BR/><BR/>According to the study, 935 false statements were issued by the White House in the two years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.<BR/><BR/>In speeches, briefings and interviews, President Bush and other officials stated “unequivocally” on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had links to al-Qaeda, or had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to get them."<BR/><BR/>More <A HREF="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23098129-401,00.html?from=mostpop" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-23616874080769320312008-07-27T01:34:00.000-05:002008-07-27T01:34:00.000-05:00Anon, re-read the piece. You can claim the surge i...Anon, re-read the piece. You can claim the surge is a "success" under certain conditions that don't yet exist. There appear to have been some results (for now), but I think it's likely that the insurgency is simply biding its time. It's very much a distortion to depict it as having gone away.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and, your "point" about "everything" that "LibTards" said about the Iraq war was wrong? Again, I was told by my "president," in a most theatrical manner, that major combat operations were over in Iraq back on May 1, 2003. Seems like that time, the NeoCons may have been a bit off the mark and their critics and the skeptics a bit more right. Like many of Bush's remaining defenders, you've simply been seeing what you want to see and hearing what you want to hear.Manifesto Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-50644579559171174572008-07-25T23:00:00.000-05:002008-07-25T23:00:00.000-05:00One thing you didn't mention in your piece is that...One thing you didn't mention in your piece is that the Surge is a success.<BR/>Since President Bush ordered the Surge, violence is down sharply and Al-Qaida is on the run.<BR/>When will you LibTards admit you were wrong all along about Iraq? Everything you Liberals have said about the Iraq War has turned out to not be true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11753985.post-74395813416855349322008-07-25T18:44:00.000-05:002008-07-25T18:44:00.000-05:00This war is costing us $3 trillion, according to N...This war is <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html" REL="nofollow">costing</A> us $3 trillion, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz (and he notes that this is a conservative estimate).<BR/><BR/>Hmm, $3 trillion: I may just be dumb, but I can't help but wonder: what, exactly, are we getting for all this money?<BR/><BR/>You know, $3 trillion would have bought a lot of security improvements in the homeland. It would have also bought a lot of goodwill among Muslim nation (so much that we'd never have to worry about future 9/11s). Oh, and it could also have been used to get our economy switched over to alternative energies, to where we'd never have to import oil from the Middle East again. $3 trillion could have done all these things---with lots of money left over.<BR/><BR/>Instead, all that $3 trillion has done is led to the deaths of one milllion Iraq men, women and children---and caused a lot of growing hatred toward to the U.S. across the Muslim world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com