"Saddam chose to deny inspectors" by: Joe Conason

[kpete]

"Saddam chose to deny inspectors"
Bush repeated this bald-faced lie recently. The cowering press still lets him get away with it, but the public is no longer fooled.

By Joe Conason

March 31, 2006 | Slowly but inexorably, as more and more information emerges, the conventional wisdom about the events leading to war in Iraq is shifting. The American public has joined the rest of the civilized world in questioning the arguments and motives of the war makers. Commentators who have habitually fashioned excuses for the White House seem to find that task increasingly burdensome and humiliating. The old lies no longer have much traction.

Yet even now, President Bush persists in blatantly falsifying the war's origins -- perhaps because, even now, he still gets away with it.
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Is it necessary to mention that this falsehood again went unnoticed in the mainstream media (although I took exception)? Historians will wonder someday how a free press permitted the world's most important official to say such things without contradiction. Meanwhile we can hope that next time, Jon Stewart will play back the tape on "The Daily Show" while bugging his eyes in disbelief. Then we will be reassured that reality still exists, even when the media and the president prefer to pretend otherwise.

more at Salon (short ad 1st):
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/03/31/bush_lies/

[musical_soul]

1. Some more info.

I have to say I was surprised years ago when I read this.

http://www.fair.org/activism/usat-iraq.html

http://www.fair.org/activism/post-expulsions.html

[zbdent]

2. Was that before or after

Bush pointed out that the inspectors should get out of Iraq because he was going to bomb it whether they were there or not?

[Brotherjohn]

3. "He wouldn't let them in." It depends on what the meaning of "in" is.

Of course Bush meant "he wouldn't let them in to his bathtub".
:sarcasm: