The media gives a president a free pass when it knows of a British cabinet meeting held on Downing Street in which it becomes clear that President Bush intended to invade Iraq, whether or not it possessed so called weapons of mass destruction. What mainstream media outfit ran with this?
Bush lied to Congress and to the American people when he said that Saddam Hussein had 48 hours to leave Iraq or face an American invasion. According to the notes taken during the July 23, 2002 Downing Street Cabinet meeting, The American Regime was going to invade Iraq no matter what the outcome of the UN vote was and no matter if Saddam Hussein stepped down or not.
This lie was not as large and as important as the lie that forced Nixon out of office. The Regime's lie was much, much bigger than Nixon's lie and much, much more important and involved putting American troops in harm's way for absolutely no good reason. Where were investigative reporters like Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward? This should have brought The Regime down and brought it down quickly.
That's a shameful pass given to a murderous regime by a compliant press.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offeropposing, conservative points of view.
First of all, we should all be thankful that there aren't "Limbaughs", "Hannitys", "O'Reillys" or "Becks". We should be thankful that there is only one of each of these people.
Secondly, the letter writer shouldn't fear any attempt he believes the president is making to silence the above mentioned people because, if there is such a plan, it's unfortunately not working.
The people mentioned above are paid handsomely to keep Americans divided and to keep the flames of hate and discontent burning.
I said that people can't know what others believe. However, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that one, some or maybe all of the people mentioned above and those that spew anti-American venom on the Fox Fake New Network may not believe what they shout. Some of the people do, indeed, seem intelligent and, if that's the case, they know very well that what they do is build obstacles to a truly United States of America. They are paid handsomely to do this.
They are as successful as they are because, judging from the kind of trash contained in this so called letter and judging from what I've heard their followers say, their followers listen to them, watch Fox Fake News and are loathe to do any research on their own. Keeping a loyal following is easy if one's followers take what one says as the gospel truth and don't check the facts.
My sense is that the followers of Fox Fake News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck unfortunately get all of their information from these people and do no investigation on their own.
As far as the president's trying to silence these people, I have to, again, point to the Open Government Blog. Anyone, even those mentioned above, can add to the blog.
However, these people don't want to add to an open and honest discussion of issues. These people, like the letter writer, want simply to shout at the moon and anger those who are too lazy to read.
I challenge anyone who believes the lies to begin to become an independent student of current events and of history. Do your own reading and researching.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
The problem isthere hasn't been any governing for at least the past eight years.
