http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher133.htmlMEDIA IGNORES BUSH ADMISSION THAT SADDAM NOT INVOLVED IN SEPT. 11
By Bill Gallagher
"Without exaggeration, George W. Bush, light blue tie, silly smirk and all, is the worst president this nation has ever had."
-- Jack Lessenberry, Detroit Metro Times columnist.
DETROIT -- The president has been tanking in the polls since telling the American people he needed $87 billion in a hurry for just a partial payment for the occupation of Iraq.
The often-repeated reasons for the war -- that Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction" and posed an imminent threat to U.S. security, and that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- are now known to be outrageous lies.
Even the president has finally acknowledged publicly for the very first time that Saddam was not involved in the murderous deeds of Sept. 11. That should have been big news, but it wasn't.
Media outlets, especially television, are largely responsible for the vast public misperception that Saddam was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks -- a myth that nearly 70 percent of Americans still believe.
The Bush administration's deliberately deceptive rhetoric formed the lie, and major corporate news organizations served as shameless hucksters for the political propaganda. So now, when the president finally fesses up and says sheepishly that there was "no evidence that Hussein was involved" with the Sept. 11 attacks, that ought to be a major news story. Instead, it was buried and got little play, when it should have made headlines and been the lead story on every American news broadcast.
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