(someone should cut out their tongues they've slipped so
much....)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer16sep16,1,2367692.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinionsWhite House's Cynical Iraq Ploy: 'Misspeak' First, 'Correct' It Later
Robert Scheer
September 16, 2003
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
had a great deal to do with terrorism in general and with Al Qaeda in particular and we know a great many of 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. " should have been more precise," Wolfowitz admitted.
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