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ORIGINAL: Jeffff Considering the media was lead along the path like the rest of us, I find that hard to believe. No one, not Congress, not reporters, no one really objected to the war. Colin Powell and George Tenant said there were WMD's so off we went and the press of all stripes supported it. Later when none was found, it became an issue. You are asking us to believe that it was covered up by a vast conspiracy. That's as nutty as RO The press started to spin things to make the US, and its allies, come across as "evil," as soon as the war started. I noticed this with their reporting on Afghanistan, where they started to accuse us of killing civilians indiscriminately... while conveniently ignoring things like, say, the Taliban deliberately placing anti aircraft guns inside neighborhoods to draw western firepower in to maximize civilian casualties. The media didn't really support the war, as they gave air time to the people that protested it, the closer we got to the Iraq invasion, the more airtime these protesters seemed to have received. I heard allot of argument, coming from the media, about letting the inspections continue... never mind the fact that these inspections failed for years before Saddam kicked the inspection teams out of Iraq. The mainstream media did their best to hide the fact that sarin, a chemical agent/hence WMD, was found in post invasion Iraq. Those that did report it, did their best to spin the discovery, or hide its significance, to try to prevent the Republicans/Bush from being vindicated in their assessment, and to prevent the liberal's super lie from being destroyed. I'm not saying that this is a vast conspiracy, I indicated, on this thread, that because of their stance (press predominantly democrat voters), they're automatically going to be biased against Bush/Republicans. Their reporting reflects that. But, since you don't want to take my word, read the following Books: Journalistic Fraud: How the New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer be Trusted, by Bob Kohn. BIAS: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News, by Bernard Goldberg And Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite, Bernard Goldberg. "None" were found... yeah right, that's one of the biggest lies ever perpetrated... and what's even sadder than that is that the media successfully hoodwinked millions of people into believing that crap. Things like that make it hard for me to argue against posters from other countries who lambast the American education system.
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