The Queen of All Evil - Kerry Still Full Of Crap

At an hour and 28 minutes into this painful "documentary," I find the most nakedly dishonest part, where the film reaches Michael Moore-ish levels of dishonesty: they imply strongly that a couple of years after the liberation of Iraq, the White House was "forced to admit" that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Omitting the entire fact that the administration denied that repeatedly before the invasion began, and which was why they sought a separate war declaration against Iraq after the October 2001 war declaration against Al Qaeda and Afghanistan.

From the Washington Post in 2003:

Further, Cheney argued that new evidence found in Iraq proved more ties between Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization, and he argued that Iraq was the "geographic base" for the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11," he said in an hour-long interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Selective memory?

1.28.2007 10:35pm

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Adam (mail):

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Haven't you heard? The war in Iraq was never about the threat they posed. The administration never connected Iraq and 9/11. WMDs were a footnote. Whether Iraq had them or not really doesn't matter. It was all about our grand vision to bring freedom and democracy to that beleaguered nation. That was what it was about from the beginning, and anyone who says differently is a Commie traitor bastard with blood on his hands. You do like freedom, don't you? Don't you like democracy?

Don't believe me? Dean will explain it to you. In excruciating detail. Pack a lunch.

1.28.2007 11:46pm

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shep (mail):

"The administration never connected Iraq and 9/11."

Yeah, I think these people just made it all up. All 200 million of them.

1.29.2007 11:02am

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Adam (mail):

Silly Shep. Those people are stupid. Or the polls are biased. Or outright lies. Or, maybe there was a link after all? Who knows? Probably.

But the administration NEVER, NEVER linked Saddam and 9/11. Never happened. Never. Who do you believe, Dean Esmay or your own lying eyes?

When will people learn? :-)

1.29.2007 11:41am

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shep (mail):

"Who do you believe, Dean Esmay or your own lying eyes?"

Well, one thing's for certain. I don't believe the boy king:

"The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda and cut off a source of terrorist funding."

"There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties."

Or his Dick:

"If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."

[Hussein] "had long-established ties with al Qaeda."

1.29.2007 3:28pm

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Adam (mail):

I think the real challenge of documentation on the war would be to detail the number of times the administration *didn't* say "9/11" in the same breath with "Iraq" or "Saddam." That'd be a mighty short list of quotes.

Even more interesting would be the news stories from the dreaded MSM that *didn't* mention 9/11 in a story about the leadup to the Iraq war. I bet that would be a pathetically small number as well.

It's just basic advertising. Volvos are safe. Can the vast majority of consumers say *why* Volvos are safe? No. But they've heard the two words together so many times, they believe it. They don't need "proof."

Remember this gem?

"From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August."
-Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Sept. 6, 2002

1.29.2007 3:41pm

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Mark Adams, who's always correct, get used to it. (mail) (www):

Volvo: There're boxey, but they're good.

One of my favorite movies.

The Goebellization of political marketing continues. I just discovered, for instance, that there isn't a single documented case of a Vietnam Vet ever being spat upon. Yet Matthews just brought it up on his show yesterday like it was an established "factiness."

Like Al Gore claiming to have invented the internet, Iraqi agents met with the 9/11 highjackers, Ann Coulter really is a woman, global warming is a conspiracy theory, Dean Esmay is a liberal, or Dick Cheney is a warm, cuddly, loving grandpa -- these myths take on a life of their own, perpetuated by people who would manipulate the public discourse for their own narrow agenda.

Reality is for those who don't know how to edit Wikipedia.

2.2.2007 1:18am

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Adam (mail):

And of course they're trying to propagate the spitting urban legend onto Iraq vets too.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701300001

2.2.2007 10:27am

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shep (mail):

"And of course they're trying to propagate the spitting urban legend onto Iraq vets too."

I believe that the correct phrase is to "catapult the spitting urban legend..." (so says The Decider).

2.2.2007 2:33pm