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I thank you for this article. In retrospect, it is well to consider the statements by Richard Perle in February, 2003, regarding oil contracts supposedly being sought by French oil company Totalfinaelf with Iraq. The argument he made, was that following regime change in Iraq, oil prices would fall due to the availability of Iraqi oil on the free market. Was it in fact the prospect of having Iraqi oil prices pegged to the euro, at a time of decline of the US dollar, that panicked the US government into a decision to act against Saddam?
How interesting that your article refers to Cheney's LYING as "fixing the facts"! Can WE at least not diminish what this administration has done by sugar-coating it??
The lack of oversight the press has exhibited in this and many other conservative movements of the last several years is breathtaking. Hopefully the tarnished reputations of the Miller and the New York Times, as well as everyone else who bought the disinformation will hit the wallets of the publishers hard enough to cause them to remember who they work for, and to remember that a free press must rely on information that can be corraborated, proven to be true or of valuable and worthwhile opinion that leads to a common good.
Nice work, Mr. Lobe.
Juri Koll
Venice, California
You all remember Kubrick's 2001 with HAL's role clearly defined. This came out in 1968 as I recall. Haliburton's ticker is HAL -- and Cheney its essence made flesh -- I could believe HAL programmed Election 2000 -- after all who vetted the VP position.
