As far as you people that believe the war is based on oil and President Bush and friends getting rich off the oil, how can this fiscally happen? Bush and Co are AMERICAN oil producers. To make a profit, they must sell AMERICAN oil, and reduce the incoming foreign oil. So if Bush and Co bring in FOREIGN oil, that lowers the cost per barrel of AMERICAN oil, therefore cutting the AMERICAN oil producers’ profits. Please explain your beliefs that he will profit from this action.
WMDs and Michael Moore?
Iraq’s arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who heroically brought down Saddam Hussein’s regime three years ago this week. It vanished before they arrived.
Israeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting in late summer 2002 Saddam’s WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of Iraq’s WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have been corroborated by Saddam’s Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.
So rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam’s WMD arsenal was simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations.
Of course, American Media will NOT report this, it will prove Bush right, and then they would look stupid.
Michael Moore, thanks:
Friday, 23 June 2006
When News Lies
WHEN NEWS LIES
Media Complicity and The Iraq War
By Danny Schechter, The News Dissector
A new book from Danny Schechter offers an up to date indictment of the role media played in promoting and misreporting the war on Iraq. It is an analysis of how and why the media got it wrong that pinpoints the failures of journalism and the collusion of media companies with the Bush Administration. The author of EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus 2003), an account of the TV coverage of the US invasion, returns with a more comprehensive, updated and insider look at the media complicity that Schechter argues "made the war possible."
"Most of the anti-war movement focused on the crimes of the Bush Administration ignoring the mainstream media, its far more effective accomplice,"
says former network producer Danny Schechter (ABC, CNN). "The government orchestrated the war while the media marketed it. You couldn’t have one without the other."
WHEN NEWS LIES includes the feature -length DVD of the prize-winning film WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception). The book will also include the complete script as well as a discussion of the challenges of exposing media with media with a documentary. It chronicles the media war fought alongside the military campaign and the struggle to stand up for truth.
Source(s):
Google it:
Saddam, WMD, Spetsnaz
http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.ph…
And the UN vote against the invasion of Iraq was a NO from Germany, Russia, Chian and France. When our troops entered Iraq and captured NEW equipment, where do you think it was bought from??? Germany, France, China and Russia. Conflict of Interest??? A UN Embargo that did not work.
Oh, and who has made the most money from this war??? Michael moore..and he owns stock in Halliburton also.
You are not going to get an answer out of the people who say that. They can’t explain the things they say, they just know how to say it.
On the flip side, one can make the argument that the reason some countries in the U.N. did not vote to invade Iraq was due to oil. Places like France and Russia have/had oil contracts with Iraq, and if they sanctioned an invasion, it would cost them their contracts.
The simple fact is, the simple minded liberals who make the war for oil claims can’t see past the slogans their hero leaders like michael moore spew out of their mouths.
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melvin, that is not a documentary. That title was removed because it was proven to be full of half truths, and things taken out of context to reach a particular point. Don’t be so naive.
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beren, I suggest you look at this question, and see if the timeline of statements adds up.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhuC2gSDmgjaTBRASaVYtdXsy6IX?qid=20060626222808AAHcTMM