The Kennedys' "pocket people" and, of course the usual suspect:
Posted on 04/26/2003 7:50:57 AM PDT by Angel
A tidy little sum of $300,000.00 to $450,000.00 every six months for Mr. Galloway, which he vehemently denies.
You nailed it buffyt, inquiring minds can't wait to learn more. In a perfect world, many libs will be exposed.
Where's the folder with "Scott Ritter" on the tab? Methinks we'll find it soon.
That campaign continued until days before the regime was deposed. "If they're not bought and paid for, they're at least rented," says a top national security official, who adds that the administration has intelligence implicating big-name journalists throughout the Arab world and Europe.
"I could give you lots of names," says Tareq al-Mezrem. "Everyone knows them on the street. Everyone knows this information."
. . . If . . . reports are accurate, the Iraqi regime's "modest media strategy" so appealing to Reuters' Marr was actually an elaborate scheme to buy victory in the propaganda war with the United States.
"To lots of people, Saddam Hussein and his regime was a godsend," says a Washington-based columnist for a prominent Arabic-language newspaper. "Only a few journalists [in the Arab world] didn't take money from him."
First Amendment Freedom at work (no sarcasm intended!).In the founding era, Jefferson and Hamilton sponsored competing newspapers in which they waged their political battles with each other. The First Amendment clearly indicates that the government has no authority to control such behavior. In fact, I would argue that those sponsored presses were the prototypes of political parties.
Of course, if a First Amendment is instituted in Iraq it would ban the government from conducting such a policy--but as long as Iraq was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Saddam mafia, acceptance by foreign--even U.S.--journalists of money for political speech is legal. Even (in the case of print journalists) constitutionaly protected, in the US.
The right to freely make up your own mind cannot be divorced from the right to swallow propaganda whole. If you wanna believe it when a journalist says he is objective, no one can stop you--it's as simple as that. Otherwise, liberalism wouldn't exist.
Yes, but print journalists in America are constitutionally protected in their right to accept money for printing propaganda. The case is otherwise with broadcast journalists--but then, Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate .
Ismail Mansour, a Pentagon-trained Iraqi American working with coalition forces in Iraq, says the regime's money reached well inside the United States, going to journalists and others. "In America, Saddam friends give money and they make protest," he says. "In the Arab world, it's the same thing. They pay money to do that."
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Here is a crosslink everyone else should read--because CNN is now in league to enable the terrorists in Baghdad: Attack Sets Off Baghdad Arms Dump Blast, Casualties
This incredible story posted by you may help explain why Eason Jordan decided to "come clean" with his admission of CNN's complicity in Saddam's reign of terror for over a decade. There is much else for the media to answer.
Oh, it'll be in there--but Ritter may not have received the money directly. He may have gotten it, from, say, a pro-Saddam Iraqi-American....naw.....
The Kennedys' "pocket people" and, of course the usual suspect:
We may have new people reading this excellent summary so I include here a couple of links and notes,
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So far only the Britain file has been opened in Baghdad and that has Galloway nailed. There have got to be bigger leaches in the United States files yet to be nailed. And the other files should be interesting also!
Just in case no one has seen this:
Galloway: For a Flamboyant Laborite, Iraq Looks to Be His Epitaph
And :
How I found the papers in a looted foreign ministry office (including Galloway's purported payoff)
From the link:
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Within minutes, both of us had sweaty black sleeves. Working only by the light of one small window, we took to sinking shafts in piles of folders, extracting one heavy, brown object at a time.
The air was thick with choking clouds of dust and the looters were hammering and shouting in the rooms and corridors around us. Then my translator happened upon an orange box file with the Arabic label "Britain". Its interior was lined with tigerskin wallpaper.
Four blue folders, each stamped with the Iraqi eagle, lay inside. Opening the first, I happened upon George Galloway's letter nominating Fawaz Zureikat as his representative in Baghdad. Another folder contained a letter from Sir Edward Heath thanking the Iraqi representative in London for attending a luncheon in Salisbury.
Two more box files were labelled "Britain". Others were labelled "United States", "Security Council" and "France". Each appeared to contain all the appropriate documents that had crossed the desk of an Iraqi foreign minister.
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