the ny times and the corporate media helped bush to sell his wmd lies. correct?

Answer 1

yawn. 2 points.

Answer 2

As a non-American living outside the U.S., I can say that the U.S. media performed shamefully. They swallowed the Bush party line uncritically. Someone else here wrote that the media just reported what the government said and that sums up the problem completely. The U.S. media were nothing more than stenographers, uncritically accepting lies and making no effort to determine their truth. The media in other countries, such as Canada, where I live, were more skeptical.

Answer 3

One of the qualities we as a people expect from our president is the truth.However what we seem to get from this president are distortions of the truth.For example the aluminum tubes.........Right after Powells address to the UN I saw an interview with physisists saying that those type of tubes weren't weapon grade and couldn't be used for atomic bombs!What about the SKETCHES of the mobile labs making antrax?What did Saddam do give them all to Syria?

Answer 4

Friends at other notable news organizations secretly revealed once, how that unknown to general public, worse than a mob control nature of varying propaganda. So newspapers remain less likely to reveal the nature of truth and fairness that they should, and otherwise likely would. For the record, I am speaking of large corporate concerns known as national news chains.

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Answer 6

What WMD lies?

Since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent," said an overview of the report unveiled by Senator Rick Santorum and Peter Hoekstra, head of the intelligence committee of the House of Representatives.

"This is an incredibly -- in my mind -- significant finding. The idea that, as my colleagues have repeatedly said in this debate on the other side of the aisle, that there are no weapons of mass destruction, is in fact false," Santorum said.

A Pentagon official who confirmed the findings said that all the weapons were pre-1991 vintage munitions "in such a degraded state they couldn't be used for what they are designed for."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=060622055545.07o4imol&show_article=1

a former Iraqi air force colonel claiming to be the former base commander told U.S. military officials he knew of 120 missiles within about an 18-mile radius of the city -- 24 of them carrying chemical munitions,

The warhead was found in a box Friday during routine operations to secure the airfield by the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. It is about the width of a coffee can and marked with a green band that military sources said is the universal symbol for chemical weaponry.

Two initial "improved chemical agent monitor" (ICAM) tests showed trace amounts of a nerve agent on the baseball bat-length warhead -- at the rear and in the middle where there is a screwed-down circular area about the size of a quarter.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/12/sprj.irq.chemical/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP/FNC) — A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent recently exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said

The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad. "The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy."

Two weeks ago, U.S. military units discovered mustard gas that was used as part of an IED. Tests conducted by the Iraqi Survey Group and others concluded the mustard gas was "stored improperly," which made the gas "ineffective."

They believe the mustard gas shell may have been one of 550 for which former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed to account when he made his weapons declaration shortly before Operation Iraqi Freedom began last year.

Investigators are trying to determine how insurgents obtained these weapons — whether they were looted or supplied.

Kimmitt said the shell belonged to a class of ordnance that Saddam Hussein's government said was destroyed before the 1991 Gulf war. Experts believe both the sarin and mustard gas weapons date back to the Persian Gulf War.

"It was a weapon that we believe was stocked from the ex-regime time and it had been thought to be an ordinary artillery shell set up to explode like an ordinary IED and basically from the detection of that and when it exploded, it indicated that it actually had some sarin in it," Kimmitt said.

"Everybody knew Saddam had chemical weapons, the question was, where did they go. Unfortunately, everybody jumped on the offramp and said 'well, because we didn't find them, he didn't have them,'" said Fox News military analyst Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney.

"I doubt if it's the tip of the iceberg but it does confirm what we've known ... that he [Saddam Hussein] had weapons of mad destruction that he used on his own people," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News. "This does show that the fear we had is very real. Now whether there is much more of this we don't know, Iraq is the size of the state of California."
Gazi George, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist under Saddam's regime, told Fox News that he believes many similar weapons stockpiled by the former regime were either buried underground or transported to Syria. He noted that the airport where the device was detonated is on the way to Baghdad from the Syrian border.

George said the finding likely will just be the first in a series of discoveries of such weapons.

"Saddam is the type who will not store those materials in a military warehouse. He's gonna store them either underground, or, as I said, lots of them have gone west to Syria and are being brought back with the insurgencies," George told Fox News. "It is difficult to look in areas that are not obvious to the military's eyes.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=1873019&nav=EyB0NBHX

Answer 7

They helped him sell the WMD story. Whether Bush had enough intel to know they were lies is still debatable, not a given. And even if he knew they were lies, that doesn't mean the media knew they were lies.

Why do you ask?

Answer 8

Of course they did. Remember, the Aspens are connected underground...

Don't get the reference? OH, not reading the real news, are we?

[Libby] closed the letter [to Judy Miller] on this personal note (although he wasn't quite right on when autumn begins): "You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover--Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work---and life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers.

Answer 9

NO, they were not lies, there were Weapons of Mass Destruction, just not on the scale that we thought there was. He had enough chemical weapons to wipe out his own people. But Yes, the N.Y. Times and the liberal media help promote the war, just like the Democrats voted for it.

Answer 10

The media should not have to second-guess the President of the United States of America. It's sad they have to fact-check what the highest power says is true. We've all learned our lesson, though.

Answer 11

The media didn't know Bush was lying at the time. They were just reporting what they heard from the government.