Sunday, May 15, 2005

Who is the most dishonest of them all?

A few days after the America media finally dug its head out of the sand and reported on the secret United Kingdom memo that stated that the UK decided to go along with the U.S. to war in Iraq despite a lack of evidence, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Iraq and lied about the U.S. involvement.

"You see, this war came to us, not the other way around," the Australian Broadcasting Company quoted Rice as lying to Iraqi government leaders.

This after CNN reported that 89 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent George Bush a letter asking for explanation about the secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq
war in mid-2002.

The White House had not yet responded to queries about the congressional letter, which was released on May 6, but perhaps Rice's statement was the response.

CNN showed Rice making the statement but a Google search of the phrase shows only Radio Australia
and one other site using the comment. Perhaps the media were so incredulous that she would make such a bald faced lie that they couldn't bring themselves to report it.

After all they have the image of the administration to keep up. Now if John Kerry had made such a stupid statement the airwaves would have been full of criticisms by both Republicans and media.

Welcome to the world of new media.

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