Bush hammered as dishonest by British critics of Iraq war

[sabra]

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Bush hammered as dishonest by British critics of Iraq war

British anti-war lawmakers on Wednesday accused US President George W. Bush of not only invading Iraq on a false premise of fighting terror but actually creating a new breeding ground for terrorists.

The critics were responding to a nationally televised speech delivered late Tuesday by Bush which linked the 2003 invasion to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein with the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington.

During his speech at a military base, Bush invoked Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the man blamed for masterminding the September 11 attacks, and his chief lieutenant in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Lynne Jones, a member of Britain's ruling Labour Party who broke ranks with Prime Minister Tony Blair to oppose the invasion, said "there is absolutely no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.

"Bush tried to make this link before the war and at the time I said he was basically lying to the American people.

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[Supersedeas]

1. yet and still the US Corporate Media goes along with Bush script

[YvonneCa]

2. I think they're starting...

...to come around. Did you see Wesley Clark on FOX after the speech? The NY Times seems to be presenting a little dissent on the Bush mantra, as well.

[billyoc]

8. Do you have a link for Clark's statement

or can you sum it up? I didn't get to see it. :hi:

[mom cat]

4. At the LA Times to the list of those breaking ranks.

[bemildred]

5. It is the MSM's script, Bush is just one of the actors.

Don't expect the MSN to ever "see the light".

[nolabels]

6. I don't

I suspect in our day though, that we will see their collapse and demise.

I mostly ignore the gibberish they put out, the US corporate media have constructed another reality (a fairy tale) for them and the people who take it in. Mostly in due time all things like this come to an end.

[bemildred]

9. I hope you are right.

They live by our sufferance, since we-the-people own the airwaves and the right of regulation. I consider it obvious that the ether could be put to better use than pumping out trite propaganda.

It does seem telling that TV and the News media in general are losing audience.

[nolabels]

10. Truth be told, they need us worse than we need them

The best thing about the country we live in that there are so many people from so many other parts of world living here or just traveling through that it is impossible for them to hold on to any one facade for too long anymore.

The key is information and analyzing it correctly. There are lots of amazing things that will facilitate a different world than the one we are living in today and they are all happening now simultaneously. Simply put there is not enough fingers to fill all the holes in the dike. The clarity of what things are and what they did or are doing usually are not seen till after the fact

Technology is not the answer in itself but the willingness of people to pick it up to better the end result for themselves and people around them is what is working. And of the last throws, they are of this hierarchical model that is laying on the wayside

[leftchick]

3. And more from George Galloway....

and I LOVE this CNN headline...

Bush slammed for Iraq link to 9/11

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/29/bush.intl/

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And in Britain, Lynne Jones, a lawmaker in Prime Minister Tony Blair's ruling Labour Party, said any attempt to suggest that Iraq was a response to the September 11 attacks was "absolute nonsense."

"There is absolutely no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda," she said.

"What they have ensured, in invading Iraq, is they have actually promoted al Qaeda's involvement in other countries, including Iraq."

British MP George Galloway, who was expelled from Labour over his criticism of the war, said, "The truth is, as everyone can see, that Zarqawi and the other extremist formations that have sprouted in Iraq are the result of the invasion, not the reason for it.

"The swamp of hatred against the West has been vastly deepened by the actions of those two world leaders, Bush and Blair."

[DFWJock]

7. Britian

hates our freedom.