Monday, November 26, 2007

Buying The War

Bill Moyers is one of my favourite American journalists. He's produced a documentary on the way the Bush regime sold the Iraq war and the complicity of certain parts of the US media in the selling of that war. It's well worth watching. You can do so by clicking here.

Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln and delivered a speech in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner. Despite profound questions and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House's claim that the war was won. How did they get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 continue to go largely unreported?

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