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[gopachy - All Discussions] Familiar pattern: To quote the Senate Intelligence Committee's unanimous report back in 2004, "The Committee did not find any evidence that administration officials attempted to coerce, manipulate, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities."
[Media Matters by Jamison Foser] "Media Matters"; By Jamison Foser: the bosseswere." CNN'sJessica Yellin, who worked at MSNBC during the months leading up to the startof the Iraq war, saidthis week that the media "dropped the ball" in part due to"enormous pressure from corporate executives .to make sure that thiswas a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patrioticfever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings." Yellin said, "They would push me indifferent directions.
[Knocking on the Sky] An Obama Reality Checklist: Times, UK - Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war, and Richard Lugar, leader of the Republicans on the Senate foreign relations committee. Senior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain’s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defence secretary.
[Redstate blogs] The Neverending Iraq Argument List: The goal before the 9/11 attacks was to keep the perceived threat contained and support anti-Saddam forces in Iraq to instigate regime change. The only thing that changed with 9/11 was the idea that the containment was feasible, the perceived threat suddenly went up several notches as we realized that the threat described by Clinton was itself far more feasible, that Iraq could arm terrorist groups with the WMDs he refused to prove he had destroyed and essentially attack us anonymously without risk of retaliation.
[Blagnet.net] Young Americans aren’t angry enough about foreign policy: American students have an obligation to be outraged about the war in Iraq ”” not just disapproving of it. We need to make this administration and the remaining pro-war lawmakers start to worry.
[Tribe.net: Information Warfare] Information Control For Social Manipulation: Murphy, who'd made more than 35 films between 1930-1952 (including Broadway Melody of 1938 [1937], Broadway Melody of 1940 [1940], The Navy Comes Through [1942], Having a Wonderful Time [1945], Battleground [1949], and Border G-Man [1950]), went on to a successful career as a Republican U.S. Senator for the State of California from 1965-1971. Furthermore, he was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from California in 1948, 1952, and 1956 ("George", 2003;
[MyDD] Why Hillary Clinton is a Disaster for the Democratic Party: Bill Clinton: Withheld information about the success of the 1990s UNSCOMB Weapons Inspections from the American public that could have prevented War, publically promoted all the fraudulent Cheney-Bush Iraq WMDs and Nuclear claims, and continued to publically endorse "taking out Hussein" (by mass-violence) and, in his own words, "defended Bush against the left on the War".
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