http://www.uscrusade.com/
|
Truth Is Scarce Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2003 Another fine mess Post-September 11, George Bush began an unwinnable war on multiple fronts against a nebulous enemy. And two years on, a new study shows, the campaign has had little impact on its targets. Misperceptions abound in US Bush eating words on war's end Last May, when a triumphant President Bush declared that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended'' from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, I would not have been surprised if that clip -- or the one of Bush in a flight suit -- ended up in a campaign ad. Calling a Lie a Lie A Grandiose Folly The Same Old Mindless Mantras Now, it doesn’t take a degree in economics to be aware that whenever you open a newspaper, or listen to some post-teenage scribbler pontificating on TV and radio about the state of play in the world of business, we always hear the same old mantras being mindlessly repeated. The UN pays in blood A Grandiose Folly Who could ever have conceived of an American president calling the world to arms against "terrorism" in "Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza"? Gaza? What do the miserable, crushed, cruelly imprisoned Palestinians of Gaza have to do with the international crimes against humanity in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania? Nothing, of course. Media Must Explain Lack of 9/11-Saddam Link Truth Is Scarce Some years ago, I gave up interviewing politicians. They will not tell the truth. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in his official campaign-opening speech recently, is a perfect illustration of the politician's aversion to truth. They made a mess of Nigeria... The roadmap of human folly The Pinochet Files The Other, Almost Forgotten 9/11 State Terrorism and September 11, 1973 & 2001 The Political Capital of 9/11 Two 9/11s, one story   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |