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If that's true, then why do the majority of their viewers call themselves conservatives? If it was truly "fair and balanced", wouldn't the majority of their viewers be moderates?
Maybe conservatives love the truth and liberals will only listen to "news" that confirms their opinions.
Fox only reports the news that conservatives, the religious Right, corporations, capitalists, and Israel want you to hear.
Fox always has the liberal viewpoint represented in the news. Sure they have right wing bias on the talk shows. I mean the news is very unbias. You can't argue against that.
Saddam Hussein is hiding weapons of mass destruction and we need to attack Iraq for what they did on 9/11.
Oh yeah. Conservatives love the truth.
It wasn't just conservatives making that claim...
"One way or another, we are determined to deny Iraq the capability to develop WMD and the missiles to deliver them."
Pres. Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's WMD."
Pres. Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Vice Pres. Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"I will be voting to give the Pres. of the United States the authority to use force- if necessary- to disarm Saddam because I believe that a deadly arsenal of WMD in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
"One way or another, we are determined to deny Iraq the capability to develop WMD and the missiles to deliver them."
Pres. Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's WMD."
Pres. Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Vice Pres. Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"I will be voting to give the Pres. of the United States the authority to use force- if necessary- to disarm Saddam because I believe that a deadly arsenal of WMD in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
Yes, but they all acknowledged that they were wrong when it became evident that WMD were not to be found. Did Bush or Cheney?
Yes, but they all acknowledged that they were wrong when it became evident that WMD were not to be found. Did Bush or Cheney?
I'm sure you read this: Buried WMD Scoop
Journalists are taught never to "bury the lead." Yet it looks as if that's precisely what CBS's "60 Minutes" did in reporter Scott Pelley's fascinating interview Sunday with George Piro, the FBI agent who debriefed Saddam Hussein following his capture in December 2003.
The Lebanese-born Mr. Piro, one of only a handful of agents at the bureau who speaks Arabic, was able to wheedle information from Saddam over a matter of months through a combination of flattery and ego-deflation that worked wonders with the former despot. But as Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute first noticed, the most important news in the segment comes when Mr. Piro describes his conversations with Saddam about weapons of mass destruction. The FBI interrogator says that, while Saddam said he no longer had active WMD programs in 2003, the dictator admitted that he intended to resume those programs as soon as he possibly could.
Here's the relevant segment, which appears well down in the interview:
Mr. Piro: "The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there."
Mr. Pelley: "And that was his intention?"
Mr. Piro: "Yes."
Mr. Pelley: "What weapons of mass destruction did he intend to pursue again once he had the opportunity?"
Mr. Piro: "He wanted to pursue all of WMD. So he wanted to reconstitute his entire WMD program."
Mr. Pelley: "Chemical, biological, even nuclear."
Mr. Piro: "Yes."
Iraq's active WMD program had been destroyed, mostly by U.N. weapons inspectors, sometime in the 1990s, but Saddam told Mr. Piro that he maintained a pretense of having those weapons mainly to keep Iran at bay. This isn't exactly news. The key point is Saddam's admission that an Iraqi WMD program remained a threat so long as Saddam remained in power.
Opponents of the war argue that none of this matters because Saddam and his ambitions were being "contained" by U.N. sanctions. Hardly. As the Los Angeles Times reported in December 2000, "sanctions are crumbling among U.S. allies, who have begun challenging them with dozens of unauthorized flights into [Iraq]."
Bowing to this reality, the Bush Administration came to office the following month promising to ease the sanctions regime, even as it spent billions patrolling the so-called "No-Fly Zones." And as we learned after the invasion, Saddam was well on his way to breaking free of the sanctions by bribing everyone from a British member of parliament to a former French cabinet minister, all through a U.N. convenience known as Oil for Food.
In another telling moment in the "60 Minutes" interview, Mr. Piro relates that when he asked Saddam about his use of chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians, the dictator acknowledged that he had given the orders personally and explained himself in a word: "Necessary." The same still goes for getting rid of Saddam. See all of today's editorials and op-eds, plus video commentary, onThe Editorial Page. And add your comments to the opinionjournal.comforum.
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A14
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