Sep 05 2008

Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern on McCain & Iraq, (Pt. 2)

The other day Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern began a conversation with Paul Jay of The Real News about McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his VP running mate, and about what McCain knew about the selling of the invasion of Iraq based on demonstrably false information. Based on outright lies in other words, that straight talk express McCain happily supported and spread.

Today the conversation with Ritter and McGovern continues as they discuss the unquestioning free ride McCain is getting from US media in his presidential campaign. A campaign that, like the Iraq invasion, is based virtually entirely on lies. Lies disseminated and perpetuated by complicit media and “journalists” who are blatantly propagandizing and no longer even making any pretense at “journalism”, and thus allowing the RNC and McCain to being another campaign of lies now aimed at demonizing and attacking Iran and militarily confronting Russia.

September 3, 2008 – 17 min

Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern on McCain and the Iraq War

Pt. 2

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    • Edger on September 5, 2008 at 18:12
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    • Edger on September 6, 2008 at 04:59
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    …those dark armies of the night, are girding for battle behind Sarah Palin’s flag and, to be sure, she has credentials to lead them. But it’s been hilarious this week watching Republican spokesmen trying to put a positive spin on Palin’s utter lack of foreign policy experience.

    Even funnier is watching cable TV pundits, trying to be even-handed, because if they were even the least bit honest they’d be cackling out loud about McCain’s pick, live on national television.

    Some GOP pundits and strategists have suggested — as Jon Stewart has noted — that Palin has a good grasp of foreign policy because her state is up there someplace near Russia. Perhaps the funniest commentary of this sort comes from one of the most rabid neocons, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy. Gaffney titled it: “Sarah Palin’s experience.”

    Now, reporters are scrambling to find out of Palin has ever — yes, ever — even been to Europe. Gaffney says: No matter. “Listening to her critics, one might think that John McCain’s chosen running-mate is a complete ignoramus when it comes to matters of national security.” Well, yes, Frank, that about says it.

    –Robert Dreyfuss writes at The Nation on Tuesday

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