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You might have forgotten, since coverage of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has been wiped from the U.S. press - more proof of "liberal bias in the media", isn't it?
Let's take a trip down the Memory Hole:
A Scandal Greater Than Watergate
By Eric Margolis, Contributing Foreign Editor
Toronto Sun, 2-1-2004
"We were all wrong," White House chief weapons hunter and longtime war booster David Kay admitted last week. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as the U.S. and Britain had long alleged."
"Iraq's nuclear weapons, death rays, vans of death, drones of death, mobile germ labs, poison gas factories, hidden weapons depots, long-range missiles, links to al-Qaida - all were bogus."
"The only thing real is Iraq's oil."
"If Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as it long insisted, we must draw one of two conclusions."
"Either President George Bush, and secretaries Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld, lied about the global threat they claimed Iraq posed, and deceived Congress and the American people. Or, they were grossly misinformed by their intelligence experts and must be judged fools of the first order."
"If Bush and his team of chest-thumping, self-proclaimed national security experts were really misinformed about Iraq's weapons and capabilities, then they started a war by mistake - and presided over the two biggest national security fiascos since Pearl Harbor: the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq."
"It turns out President Saddam Hussein, whom Bush repeatedly branded a "liar," was in fact telling the truth all along when he said all of Iraq's old weapons systems had been destroyed. It was Bush and British PM Tony Blair who weren't telling the truth."
What a record. What a team.
They'll go down in history, that's for sure.
"The American neofascist movement seized control of the U.S. government in a fraudulent election in 2000."
Something like that, I imagine.... or is it a neocommunist movement?
I could never tell the difference, personally.
