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> Rep. Wexler Confronts Condoleezza Rice on Bush Administration's 935 Iraq
> War Lies
> Posted by Matt Corley, Think Progress on February 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM.
>
> Last month, the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence
> in Journalism released a study finding that the Bush administration made
> "at least 935 false statements" preceding the invasion of Iraq.
> Condoleezza Rice, who served as National Security Adviser at the time,
> made 56 false statements.
>
> During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Robert
> Wexler (D-FL) pressed Rice to explain the inconsistencies, asking "isn't
> it true that you had intelligence that cast doubt on your repeated
> claims?" "No, it's not true," replied Rice tersely.
>
> Wexler then pointed out that Rice was lying when she said it was "not
> true" and that there had been "intelligence that cast doubt" on the
> administration's pre-war claims:
>
>
> WEXLER: I simply asked if you had intelligence that was contrary to the
> intelligence that you reported repeatedly to the American people...
>
>
> RICE: Congressman, I would...
>
>
> WEXLER: ... that Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction.
>
>
> RICE: Congressman, I would suggest that you go back and read the key
> judgments of 2002. I think that will answer your question.
>
>
> WEXLER: Yes. And the answer to the question, Madam Secretary, is that, in
> fact, there were contrary reports. You chose to weigh the reports.
>
> Read the rest of the post on the flip side »
>
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>
> The saddest part about this public hearing is that it was not made very
> PUBLIC. News like this should have been BLASTED all over the airwaves as
> was the case of Anna Nicole Smith.
>
> No bars were held back when the super model died last year. From sun-up to
> sun-down, the airwaves rocked the nation with Smith's death. Before any
> physical evidence was even apparent, the media had already prosecuted
> those around her.
>
> Why is it that the media has ALL the say on what the American people get
> to see and hear? If the corporate media were doing their jobs, the story
> on Rice should've been on the news sun-up to sun-down; with legal
> commentators discussing the serious reprecussions of her so-called
> testimony.


Two simple facts - Most people bought the whole run up to the war lie,
enough people still believed it to re-elect Bush. People don't like to hear
that they were duped.

Media is CORPORATE MEDIA. No longer is it simply the newspaper competing
with the 5 o'clock news. Now the newspaper is owned by the news program,
who is owned by the Television station, who is owned by the real-estate
investment company, who's major stock holder is an automobile company, who's
biggest stock holder is an oil company and the senator for that state sits
on the board of one or all of those companies. So if that little local
newspaper reports on a story with national importance - they suffer all
kinds of backlash from their corporate masters.
We no longer have freedom of the press.