Media wrong about Iraq in 2003 at it again?
Everybody – reporters and news site -- has an agenda so it’s hard
to know what to believe.
But Media Matters for America senior fellow (impressive title,
huh?) Eric Boehlert writes that the people who botched the Iraq War in the
first place – George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, etc. – are being given ready access
to criticizing President Obama for what’s happening today because the same
media helped convince the American public that the original screw-ups were
right.
Why? The same guys in the media who helped sell the war before the
2003 invasion now are trotting out the WMD liars to attack President Obama
because Iraq is a civil war mess, thanks to an ISIS so on the fringe that even
Al Kaida rejects the group.
"The neoconservative program cost
the United States several trillion dollars
and thousands dead and wounded American soldiers, and it sowed carnage and
chaos in Iraq and elsewhere," writes Harvard University
professor Stephen Walt in Foreign Policy.
Boehlert writes: The media got it wrong 11 years ago and is using the
original architects of the Iraq debacle to slam President Obama for it.
Media Matters for America is at the opposite end of the
agenda spectrum from Fox News, and admits its goal in life is to “correct
conservative information in the media,” so take all this with a truckload of
salt.
I’ve pretty much lost faith in people with R or D in front of their names
because they seem to be beholden to people and companies with B in front of
their wealth indicator.
You can read the entire article and judge for yourself at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/by-rehabilitating-iraq-wa_b_5521565.html
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