Truth: Too little of it on Iraq (Mpls Star-Tribune)

[Lauren2882]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/4101486.html

You have to register to read the whole editorial, which is long and has a pretty comprehensive and detailed accounting of Cheney's and others' lies, but here are the juiciest bits (the editorial was written mostly in response to Cheney's appearance on Meet the Press):

"Dick Cheney is not a public relations man for the Bush administration, not a spinmeister nor a political operative. He's the vice president of the United States, and when he speaks in public, which he rarely does, he owes the American public the truth."

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"Cheney said that "we don't know" if there is a connection between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. He's right only in the sense that "we don't know" if the sun will come up tomorrow. But all the evidence available says it will -- and that Iraq was not involved in Sept. 11."

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"But it's funny Cheney should mention Kay. Last summer, the leader of the 1,400-person team searching for WMD expressed great confidence that they would find what they were looking for. He said he wouldn't publicize discoveries piecemeal but would submit a comprehensive report in mid-September. Apparently he has submitted the report to George Tenet at the CIA. The question now is whether it will ever be made public; several reports in the press have suggested that Kay has come up way short."

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Closing line: "It's past time the principals behind this mismanaged war were called to account for their deliberate misstatements."

[lebkuchen]

1. Minnesota might start to figure it out w/editorials like this one

That state is out to lunch politically, last time I visited. The people are hooked on jingoism. Really nauseating.

I like this line:

• Cheney said that "we don't know" if there is a connection between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. He's right only in the sense that "we don't know" if the sun will come up tomorrow. But all the evidence available says it will -- and that Iraq was not involved in Sept. 11.

[Resistance Is Futile]

2. Gunning for Cheney to save Shrub

More of a trojan horse than anything else.

Rove's media are painting Cheney as the evildoer so Shrub and the rest of the admin (so far, Rump and Rice likely with more to come later) can turn around later and say they were duped by that evil manipulative liar known as Dick Cheney.

[scarletwoman]

3. I knew there would be letters...

This one in particular cracks me up:

Recall the editorial writers

Your editorial on Vice President Dick Cheney is reprehensible. You folks who sit in the editorial ivory palace at the Star Tribune have gone on the record as being anti-American.

Your hatred toward the Bush administration has prequalified every one of you for charter membership in the Department of Homeland Hatred.

I have but one question for you. Which one of the 10 Democratic dwarfs paid you to shill for their anti-American presidential campaign? Frankly, Joe Lieberman is just about the only one who wouldn't have paid you off, because the rest of that sleazy lot are just as anti-American as you.

You folks are a disgrace to journalism. I just wish there were some way to recall all of you from any position of authority at the Star Tribune. You have no credibility.

***** *********,
Owatonna, Minn.

(*snark*)

More pro letters than anti letters, btw -- read the lot at:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/4103712.html

And tomorrow's letters have some good ones responding to the rant above:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/4105957.html

Enjoy!

sw