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2004-04-06 Europe

Le Monde Admits Bush Did Not Lie about WMD

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Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-06 12:04:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fascinating - the efforts of Le Monde are classic. This article is worthy of wide distribution! Thx!

Posted by .com 2004-04-06 1:36:48 AM|| 2004-04-06 1:36:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, that blog is very informative. Thanks for posting that link.

I hope this article makes the rounds at all of the major blog sources.

Posted by Cog 2004-04-06 4:37:56 AM|| 2004-04-06 4:37:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Speaking of Jazeera on the Seine, check out the "cartoon" Merde links to.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-06 12:06:18 PM|| 2004-04-06 12:06:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't have time to read it - but I've said this all along, I'll say it again, and I'll say I told you so when it becomes accepted fact.

The idea that Bush lied about WMD's is nothing, I repeat NOTHING more than a lie repeated so many times that it became the truth.

Get a grip everyone. All intelligence agencies agreed that he had and was actively working on a WMD program. Not only that, but they found the mobile labs, the barrels in the back yards, the stockpiles that we had to "wait for results of testing" and ample otherh evidence that made it clear that we have been keeping the investigation classified in order to assist the process.

Le Monde is burying this on the back page because they know that the truth is going to come out...and my guess is that it will come relatively soon. So now they have a choice: look like hayseed gomers with zero reporting skills or quietly slip in a few accurate reports in tiny print so they can pretend they were on top of it all along.

Few things have been more obvious than the fact that Sadaam had WMD's. Sometimes you just have to step back from the hype and let common sense do the talking. That Sadaam never had WMD's fell into the "get a grip" category.

Now the chickens are coming home to roost. But Le Monde and everyone else will never admit they were wrong - they'll just keep moving the story forward from page A21 and act like it's yesterday's news when it finally hits the front page.

Posted by B 2004-04-06 1:40:45 PM|| 2004-04-06 1:40:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember the Northridge earthquake. The press printed incredible damage figures on the front page: $40B! $60B! $125B! Insurance companies started increasing earthquake insurance by 10x and increasing deductables to $40K. Months later, buried in the newspaper, the LA Times printed that the actual residential damage was a few hundred million.

The Fourth Estate. Corrupt, incompetent or both? You decide.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-06 1:44:58 PM|| 2004-04-06 1:44:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 11A5S - all of the above?

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-06 1:50:45 PM|| 2004-04-06 1:50:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Frank G: LOL. It is pretty frightening when you consider it. I've been doing marketing and technology development for a while and know most of the games that are played. I've learned that most reporters don't have a clue about what they're reporting on, even when they work for industry publications. If they publish, they pretty much repeat whatever line of crap they're fed. The key is to get them to publish. Sometimes that involves feeding them some BS "secret" so they feel important. Sometimes it involves giving them an exclusive. But how many times have you opened a magazine to find it filled with ads that pertain to the subject of one of the articles? That's actually pretty up and up. The pubs usually call around and say, "We're doing and issue on your industry. Would you like to advertise?" With the Northridge quake, the situation is more complicated. The editor knows that if he pisses off Prudential or Mutual of Omaha, he's not going to get any more ad revnue from them. He also knows that if prints stuff favorable to them, he'll get more ad revenue. With politics, the currency is information. You piss off Jacques Chirac, no more story confirmations, no more backgrounders, no more access. Therefore, no more juicy leads and lower circulation.

These guys must have some small degree of conscience left. I guess they figure if they print the truth on A23, it will balance out the misinformation on A1. All I can say is that I'm glad that I don't have to earn my daily bread that way.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-06 2:53:56 PM|| 2004-04-06 2:53:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 All I can say is that I'm glad that I don't have to earn my daily bread that way.

You may be delayed an extra 3,000 years in purgatory for your past..... ;>
I've done some of the same, did it strike you how damn easy it was? Geez.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-06 3:32:18 PM|| 2004-04-06 3:32:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm with Frank G.

It's amazing how much more time I have since I stopped watching the network news broadcasts. And I'm better-informed than I was before.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-06 3:56:43 PM|| 2004-04-06 3:56:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 go to google and tipe in weapons of mass destruction. then hit im feel lucky and see what it say.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-04-06 4:39:29 PM|| [http://www.runningofthenudes.com/] 2004-04-06 4:39:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, muck we know that you get a funny message.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-07 12:29:29 AM|| 2004-04-07 12:29:29 AM|| Front Page Top

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