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The United Nations says it is looking into allegations that a UN document contained false information that caused instability in war-torn central Africa. A former UN employee, the American intelligence analyst William Church, told the BBC the details were added to a public UN report by other UN staff. The report stated Rwanda mounted a military incursion against neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo last year. This false allegation endangered the peace process in DR Congo, he says. 'Serious allegations' The stakes could not be higher. The war in DR Congo, which has spread throughout central Africa, is one of the...

Time for a “shout out” to Jim Lehrer: Many thanks for the following question to John Kerry in the first Presidential Debate: “...you have repeatedly accused President Bush -- not here tonight, but elsewhere before -- of not telling the truth about Iraq, essentially of lying to the American people about Iraq. Give us some examples of what you consider to be his not telling the truth.” To me, this is one of the more important questions that Kerry must answer in this campaign--especially given what we know about Kerry’s track record of nuanced support for the war in Iraq....

Although it is really funny to watch, most of us are getting a bit weary constantly hearing about Dan Rather and his Democratic Party/Kerry campaign-fueled accusations in memogate. This time, the deception of CBS was easily identified and publicly exposed. Unfortunately, that is not always true with the liberal propaganda generally spewed by "Old Media." Quite often, they get away with it. CBS and Dan Rather now want us to believe they were "misled." No they weren't. Terry McAuliffe at DNC and the Kerry campaign had those memos first. CBS admits that their news producer, Mary Mapes, has been searching...

Get Real…Dan Knew! Written by JB Williams ©2004-09-20 Can America recognize the reality check? Can the liberal main-stream media muster the moral courage to face the music, now that the fat lady is tuning up? I didn’t forge any documents or interview any bogus overzealous partisan political hacks to arrive at the grand conclusion that Dan must have known what he was engaging in. I didn’t need to. We’re not talking about some freshman crack reporter for the Podunk High School Gazette here; we’re talking about Dan Rather….THE Dan Rather! Though it took Dan Rather and CBS about 10 days...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a blow to its credibility, CBS News said on Monday it had been misled over the authenticity of documents it aired in a story challenging President Bush's military service and announced it was mounting an internal investigation. "Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in a report," CBS News said in a statement. "We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret." The announcement marked a dramatic and embarrassing reversal by...

Other Times CBS has been "Misled".....let's start the LIST: 1. Clinton and his peccadillo's (sp) 2. Hillary and the VAST Right Wing Conspiracy 3. Republican's are going to starve old people and kids 4. Saddam telling Rather he was a good guy 5. Oil for Food program 6. Gore's Iced Tea Story 7. ???? and ON and ON and ON....

What must be done when a President misleads the American people into a war that has nothing even remotely to do with U.S. national security; lies about the reasons for going to war; violates the War Powers Resolution; refuses diplomatic options; deposes a democratically elected president; has no exit strategy or definition of victory; and causes unnecessary U.S. casualties in the process? If you are a liberal Democrat and the President is Bill Clinton – absolutely nothing. In light of Bill Clinton’s misconduct regarding Kosovo, the shameless complaints against President Bush ring hollow. The war in Kosovo was a total...

John Kerry wants the pre-war intelligence on Iraq's WMDs to be a major campaign issue. Bush should definitely take him up on it. Big time. Kerry's first salvo went as follows... >>>>>Kerry also employed Paul Revere's famed midnight run and imagery of Bunker Hill to bash President Bush over U.S. intelligence failures. "These are the places where people dared to stand up and put their lives on the line — to take a risk — for something they believed in very deeply," Kerry said of the Boston neighborhood where he was speaking.<<<< It's a shame one of those places wasn't...

Wisdom of the Father, Folly of the Son Paul Craig Roberts Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003 Americans will regret that Bush II did not read his father's memoirs, "A World Transformed." Written five years ago, George Bush Senior explained why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War: "Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. ... [T]here was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore,...

CIA deliberately misled UN arms inspectors, says senator By Rupert Cornwell, in Washington 18 June 2003 The row over Iraq's missing weapons intensified in Washington yesterday as a leading Senate Democrat accused the CIA of deliberately misleading United Nations inspectors to help clear the decks for an invasion of Iraq. The charge by Carl Levin of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, comes as Congress gears up for its own hearings into whether the Bush administration misinterpreted or manipulated pre-war intelligence on the scale of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Mr Levin is not...

There have been more minuses than gains in the Iraqi war, said Shane Claiborne, a Maryville native who returned to East Tennessee Wednesday from Iraq. Claiborne, 27, spent the last three weeks on a peace mission visiting Iraqi orphanages, hospitals and homesteads. "Within the first three hours of the bombing, one hospital had reports of 100 casualties," Claiborne told media, family and friends in McGhee Tyson Airport's baggage-claim area. "I think if the American people could see the effects of the war and the previous years with the sanctions, they would support other solutions for liberating the people. My purpose...