J.F. - Americans were duped by the prez, and the press

Lewiston Morning Tribune ^ | 8/27/05 | Jim Fisher

[RadicalSon2]

"...Hussein was a paper tiger..." And Jim Fisher thinks he's an unbiased editor. Beam me up Scotty!

[Renderofveils]

They've definitely learned not to interview the "right" people. Every time they interview Iraqis, it's in coffee shops with the speakers huddled around their hookahs.

And they definitely haven't interviewed any Kuwaitis about the war since... what, right before it started? Hmmm...

[zip]

This fisher character would have failed 10th grade writing course. He meanders all over the place, just throwing statements out as though they were facts. Pitiful.

[Tom_Busch]

Same old story...I'm so sick of these effing idiots.

[Casloy]

It turned out Hussein was a paper tiger, in more ways than one. His menace to the world existed only on paper -- and in the nation's newspapers.

Let's see, an evil megalomaniac with the biggest single oil reserves in the world, and he is a paper tiger? Talk about a complete inability to analyze a situation globally. For that matter, Hitler was a paper tiger in 1934.

[Just Lori]

Another liberal robot heard from. Same lines. Same irrational rationalizing:

Hussein's purported possession of weapons of mass destruction was accepted as established fact

Yes, because he not only HAD them, he USED them! Ah hell, I'm too tired to eat spaghetti right now.

[sydbas]

I love it when these people promote this fantasy that the MSM supported President Bush in the build up to the war. And oh by the way, Saddam did have WMD and used them against the Kurds and oh by the way, Saddam did attempt to buy that famous yellowcake from Niger, despite what the lying Joe Wison said. This stupid article could have, and I guess has been, written by a hundred other biased reporters.

[piasa]

Hussein's purported possession of weapons of mass destruction was accepted as established fact.

That's probably because it is an established fact.

His alleged attempt to build nuclear bombs was reported without the qualifying statements it deserved.

I heard "qualifying statements" nonstop since Joe Wilson went to Niger to sip sweet mint tea.

Just for fun, just google up "Sudan," "Iraq," "libya" "WMD." Oh, what the heck, add "Qadeer Khan" too.

And members of the Bush administration were given greater credibility than those who remained skeptical, including United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix.

Hans Blix? Google up his name with the word "Chernobl."

[fish hawk]

This kind of BS is getting so tiresome. Why is it they never mention that most of the leading Democrats also voted to back the president in this venture?

[Publius6961]

Hussein's purported possession of weapons of mass destruction was accepted as established fact.

This is as far as I read. Don't even bother asking why.

I suppose it is possible for idiots to get space to spout inanities forever, It is tedious, however.

[sydbas]

Using poll numbers that support one's point of view as a basis to write an article is such lazy reporting. If the poll numbers didn't support his point of view we never would have heard from this guy. Come to think of it, I never heard of him before anyway.

[spinestein]

[This fisher character would have failed 10th grade writing course. He meanders all over the place, just throwing statements out as though they were facts. Pitiful.]

[[This stupid article could have, and I guess has been, written by a hundred other biased reporters.]]



Isn't there some philosophy that says that if you have one million monkeys banging away at typewriters for one million years then it will eventually result in a piece of work with the quality of a Shakespearean play?

I'm guessing that this article (and others like it) is the final product of only one hundred monkeys banging away at typewriters for about 10 minutes.

[singfreedom]

i get so tired of hearing this garbage over and over: the President lied. They sound like a broken record----and, yet, it is absolutely the easiest argument to refute! The President, and Tony Blair, have been cleared by numerous governments and individuals, up to, and including, Put,Put Putin! These dizzy rad libs have no concept of the term "fact" or "proof".

I guess maybe I should hope they keep using the same tired old argument, huh?

[sydbas]

I guess maybe I should hope they keep using the same tired old argument, huh?

Don't worry, they will.

[bad company]

As the American people wise up about the war in Iraq, and the shifting rationale behind it

The only thing that shifts regularly is the dems attacks on Bush.

There is no link between saddam and terrorism. Remember that one? An oldie but goodie. It was replaced with There is no link between saddam and al-queada. The rationalizations for that one were legendary. Saddam was too secular they complained. That one lasted a little longer. Next it was there are no operational links between saddam and alqueada. Then it was shifted to there is no link between saddam and 9-11. Remember all the articles and editorials from the msm on how stupid fox news viewers were for believing that saddam might have had something to do with 9-11? Enter Able Danger and the next arguement will be that saddam didn't actually fly the planes himself.

Then there's the wmd's. WMD's always seem to pop back up every time one of the other attacks come flying apart at the seams. They've gotten good mileage out of it with much help from the press, but it has moved around a bit too. First there were no wmd's. Next came the condemnation that there weren't as many as predicted. Then they are just pre-1991 wmd's (whatever that means).

Anybody up for that no blood for oil number. Don't see that sign around much anymore.

Did I miss anything?

[wolfpat]

Last I heard, British Intelligence is still standing by the contention that SH was trying to buy yellow cake uranium in Africa.
And weren't the families of homocide bombers in Israel getting a huge check from Iraq?
Sounds like "supporting terrorism" to me.

[guitarnick40]

They're holding the blood for oil sign among all the others outside of WalterReed this week.

[bad company]

They're holding the blood for oil sign among all the others outside of WalterReed this week.

With these gas prices, someone didn't get the memo.

[thoughtomator]

Hussein - the paper tiger who invaded Kuwait, tried to assassinate a US President, sponsored suicide bombing in Israel, sponsored the 1993 WTC bombing, made the only military-grade anthrax outside the US and USSR, attempted to invade Iran at the cost of 1.5 million lives, used nerve gas to wipe out a village of 5000 people, and, as we are finding out more every day, was also a major sponsor of 9/11.

Newspaper editors live in an alternate reality where nothing is unless they say it is.

[thoughtomator]

Yeah you missed a few. See post 19. Also I forgot to add that Mr. Paper Tiger averaged a casualty count of 119 people per day over the course of his 23+ years in power.