In my ever increasing fury over what has happened to the media in recent years, I have penned several, "I've HAD it" diaries.
I don't even have the energy for that today. In one little click to RawStory.com, I found THREE articles highlighting LIES (yes, shocker, LIES) told by our government to accomplish their own goals. Not the will of the people, not the common good, their own political wishes. And where are all these stories to be found in our back to back, not a minute lost coverage of Terri Shiavo and her husband's battle to do the right thing or, OH MY GOD, Michael Jackson was late to court again today. Quick, someone tell me if he was in his pajamas again!!
So, here we go: one, two, three.
First at bat, the BBC.
Blair was told US fixed case for war
The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency told the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that the case for war in Iraq was being "fixed" by Washington to suit United States policy, according to a new BBC documentary.
Nine months before hostilities began in March 2003, Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, briefed Mr Blair and a group of ministers on the US's determination to begin the invasion
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After attending a briefing in Washington, Mr Dearlove told the meeting that "the facts and intelligence" were being "fixed round the policy" by the Bush Administration.
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The documentary argues that Mr Blair had signed up to follow President George Bush's plans for "regime change" in Iraq as early as April 2002.
"What was propelling the Prime Minister was a determination that he would be the closest ally to George Bush and they would prove to the United States Administration that Britain was their closest ally," Mr Cook tells the program.
"His problem is that George Bush's motivation was regime change. It was not disarmament. Tony Blair knew perfectly well what he was doing.
"His problem was that he could not be honest about that with either the British people or Labour MPs, hence the stress on disarmament."
Am I shocked anymore. No. Am I RITEOUSLY pissed off. You bet.
Why do they keep getting it right in the media across the pond, but our media just cannot get anything derrogetory about this administration out of their mouths?
THEY LIED TO US, PEOPLE.
Damn.
Next up, RawStory on North Korea. And the headline reads:
Bush Administration LIED about North Korean link to nuclear arms trade
That's the headline. Emphasis mine.
In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush Administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libia. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state, the Washington Post reports.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT US INTELLEGENCE REPORTED, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intellegence, had supplied uranium hexafloride- which can be enriched to weapons grade uranium- TO PAKISTAN. IT WAS PAKISTAN, A KEY US ALLY with its own nuclear arsenal THAT SOLD THE MATERIAL TO LIBIA. The US government had NO EVIDENCE THAT NORTH KOREA KNEW OF THE SECOND TRANSACTION
PAKISTANS ROLL AS BOTH THE BUYER AND SELLER WAS CONCEALED TO COVER UP THE PART PLAYED BY WASHINGTON'S PARTNER IN THE HUNT FOR AL QAEDA LEADERS
emphasis mine.
Are we kidding now? So, we lie to cover up one of our remaining 'allies' in the search for the man-whose-name-shall-remain-unmentioned.
right.
And THREE: E-Mail Shows False Claims About Tests at Nevada Nuclear Site
(false claims mean LIES, right??)
Internal Energy Department e-mail messages written in preparation for seeking a license to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada show that the department made false claims about how it carried out its work.
For example, in 2000, James Raleigh, an Energy Department employee, pointed out in one message that records showed some instruments that were apparently used to measure conditions inside the mountain were certified as having been calibrated before the procedure was performed, and even before the equipment was received.
Uh, yea Sam, it all looks good here, everything functioning normally. Just as soon as it arrives here, we'll be ready to go, just so long as you know it's all systems go... once it's here. I mean... it's here and functioning perfectly, it's just uh... not here yet. Right.
Mr. Raleigh wrote that approving the completion of a procedure on a piece of equipment not yet in hand "does not appear appropriate."
Other instruments, according to the messages, were used for months without calibration.
On Wednesday the energy secretary, Samuel W. Bodman, said an employee of the United States Geological Survey had written e-mail messages indicating that the employee had falsified some of his work and that others might also have falsified work. The messages further hinder the project to develop the repository, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Does not appear appropriate? Coffee out my nose, people. I cannot take this much longer. I ask you again, where o' WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE.
And that was only three... more to be found at
http://www.rawstory.com/