Monday, February 20, 2006
No Surprise
Why does this not surprise me?
On the front page of CNN's website today was a story about the Saddam and WMD tapes. The recordings incriminate Saddam and that reinforces in the minds of the American public Saddam and his ties to WMD's. Does CNN not realize some people might start supporting the war again? Can't have that, can we?
But upon reading the article, I found no less than five cherry-picked references as to how great a friend to the U.S. Saddam has been:
"[Saddam said]the U.S. would fall victim to terrorists possessing weapons of mass destruction but that Iraq would not be involved"
"Hussein also said on the tape that he warned British and U.S. officials of an imminent attack employing weapons of mass destruction"
"Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and I told the British as well, I think," Hussein tells then-Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. "I told them that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction."
"He added, however, that Iraq would have no part in it. "
"This is coming. This story is coming, but not from Iraq," Hussein said."
CNN sings the praises of Saddam. Why am not surprised. Jees ... what a load of crap.
On the front page of CNN's website today was a story about the Saddam and WMD tapes. The recordings incriminate Saddam and that reinforces in the minds of the American public Saddam and his ties to WMD's. Does CNN not realize some people might start supporting the war again? Can't have that, can we?
But upon reading the article, I found no less than five cherry-picked references as to how great a friend to the U.S. Saddam has been:
"[Saddam said]the U.S. would fall victim to terrorists possessing weapons of mass destruction but that Iraq would not be involved"
"Hussein also said on the tape that he warned British and U.S. officials of an imminent attack employing weapons of mass destruction"
"Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and I told the British as well, I think," Hussein tells then-Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. "I told them that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction."
"He added, however, that Iraq would have no part in it. "
"This is coming. This story is coming, but not from Iraq," Hussein said."
CNN sings the praises of Saddam. Why am not surprised. Jees ... what a load of crap.
