{"id":30242,"date":"2013-03-18T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=30242"},"modified":"2013-03-18T22:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:31:06","slug":"fabricated-wmd-claims-mainstream-media-is-also-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/fabricated-wmd-claims-mainstream-media-is-also-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"WMD Lies – Mainstream Media Must Also Shoulder Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

RINF Alternative News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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We’ve all been saying it for years<\/a>, but now 10 years too late, the mainstream media has finally begun reporting the truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even since before the hyped “shock and awe” beginning\u00a0of the Iraq war, it was obvious to almost every critical-thinking person\u00a0that a tidal wave of government lies and\u00a0deceit was about to lead to the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.<\/p>\n

That reality, revealed in no small part by genuine\u00a0investigative\u00a0journalists, has been largely censored for the past decade.<\/p>\n

But now the BBC’s Panorama\u00a0programme\u00a0will broadcast a report which finally reveals that three months before the war,\u00a0MI6 and the CIA were informed by top sources that Iraq had no WMDs.<\/p>\n

It seems ironic that only now, a full decade later, the very mainstream media that became a\u00a0mouthpiece\u00a0for both George W. Bush and Tony Blair, the\u00a0same\u00a0media that propelled – without\u00a0question<\/strong>\u00a0– \u00a0a torrent of government propaganda, are now questioning the despicable lies they once reported as fact.<\/p>\n

However, the mainstream media also needs turn its focus inwards, on its own\u00a0cowardly\u00a0journalists and editors who restricted the flow of information, as they too are guilty of deceit on a near global scale.<\/p>\n

But perhaps now with the safety of a Tory\/Lib Dem government, who won’t threaten the BBC’s licence fee if the corporation paints the previous Labour government in a negative light, are free to report the truth – as long as that truth toes the party line.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC:<\/p>\n

“The lies of two Iraqi spies were central to the claim – at the heart of the UK and US decision to go to war in Iraq – that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. But even before the fighting started, intelligence from highly-placed sources was available suggesting he did not.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Surprisingly, the BBC has actually said:<\/p>\n

“Much of the key intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House was based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Iraq’s foreign minister Naji Sabri was in touch with Bill Murray, former head of the CIA’s station in Paris.\u00a0The two men met in New York in September 2002.<\/p>\n

Murray is cited as saying that\u00a0Saddam Hussein:<\/p>\n

“Had some chemical weapons left over from the early 90s, [and] had taken the stocks and given them to various tribes that were loyal to him. [He] had intentions to have weapons of mass destruction – chemical, biological and nuclear – but at that point in time he virtually had nothing.<\/p>\n

“I thought we’d produced probably the best intelligence that anybody produced in the pre-war period, all of which came out – in the long run – to be accurate. The information was discarded and not used.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe the mainstream media’s willingness to report truth at this level could be argued as a case of ‘better late than never’, but the question must still be asked:<\/p>\n

If Britain had a Labour\u00a0government\u00a0in power today, would it be so willing to\u00a0report such damning information?<\/p>\n

And if looking at the long years when the Labour\u00a0government\u00a0were in power, is anything to go by, then the answer is clearly a \u00a0solid ‘no’.<\/p>\n

But more importantly, these latest revelations must renew calls for Bush and Blair to\u00a0stand trial for war crimes.<\/p>\n

Since 2003, the UK has spent \u00a39.24bn, and the US has spent\u00a0$802bn, killing at least\u00a0122,089 civilians in Iraq – according to official figures, but experts estimate the number of slaughtered individuals to be much higher.<\/p>\n

The mainstream media must also shoulder some of the blame as they gave unquestioning support to these psychopathic war criminals, peddling their lies and disinformation into the homes – and minds – of millions, suppressing\u00a0investigative\u00a0journalists who dare report information that could alter the public perception of Operation “Freedom”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even since before the hyped “shock and awe” beginning of the Iraq war, it was obvious to almost every critical-thinking person that a tidal wave of government lies and deceit was about to lead to mass murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18,1615,1616,16],"tags":[55,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-30242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news","10":"category-usa-news","11":"category-war-terrorism","12":"tag-uk-news","13":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}