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Here We Go Again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Rivers Pitt, Truthout)
Thu Jun 26 11:33:28 2014
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:33:26 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | Take a trip with me on the wayback machine, back to Febru=
ary of 2003. George W. Bush stood before the world and proclaimed that Iraq=
was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum =
toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile biological weapons lab=
s and uranium from Niger for use in a "robust" nuclear weapons programs, an=
d that Iraq enjoyed connections to al Qaeda that led directly to the attack=
s of September 11.
It was a stinking bag of rancid lies, and here at Truthout, we called them =
on it, loudly and at length, when it happened.
Flash-forward to the UK Telegraph headline from late last week: "ISIS Jihad=
ists 'Seize Saddam Hussein's Chemical Weapons Stockpile.'" Upon reading thi=
s headline, my brain slithered out of my ear, crawled into the bathroom, an=
d wept piteously with its pre-frontal lobe pressed into the cold porcelain =
truth of the toilet bowl=E2=80=A6 Because we've been here before, haven't w=
e? There were no chemical weapons for the ISIS fighters to seize; what they=
did seize, however, was an old factory filled with useless crap. Once agai=
n, we face the "news" media's core credo: Never let the facts get in the wa=
y of a hot headline, or a war that will boost readership.
Not Truthout. Not ever. Not one time, and not on our watch. The unfolding s=
ituation in Iraq and Syria is dense and complicated and dangerous, but you'=
re not going to get the truth of it from your television, or from the hallo=
wed halls of shops like The New York Times, which gifted us the lies of Jud=
ith Miller that helped land us in this bloodbath in the first place.
You will get the truth from us, come Hell or high water, period. End of fil=
e. We need your help to keep telling it. Can you support Truthout with a ta=
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headline from late last week: "ISIS Jihadists 'Seize Saddam Hussein's Chem=
ical Weapons Stockpile.'" Upon reading this headline, my brain slithered ou=
t of my ear, crawled into the bathroom, and wept piteously with its pre-fro=
ntal lobe pressed into the cold porcelain truth of the toilet bowl… =
Because we've been here before, haven't we? There were no chemical weapons =
for the ISIS fighters to seize; what they did seize, however, was an old fa=
ctory filled with useless crap. Once again, we face the "news" media's core=
credo: </span><i><span style=3D"font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.972001075=
744629px;">Never let the facts get in the way of a hot headline, or a war t=
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d not on our watch. The unfolding situation in Iraq and Syria is dense and =
complicated and dangerous, but you're not going to get the truth of it from=
your television, or from the hallowed halls of shops like <i>The New York =
Times</i>, which gifted us the lies of Judith Miller that helped land us in=
this bloodbath in the first place.</span></font><font color=3D"#444444" fa=
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