tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post110910652400847089..comments2023-12-08T12:50:34.303-08:00Comments on W.C. Varones: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell ThemW.C. Varoneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663570682958847976noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-1109199313368453602005-02-23T14:55:00.000-08:002005-02-23T14:55:00.000-08:00John Salmon- thanks for your comments. I did resp...John Salmon- thanks for your comments. I did respond to the Times, essentially saying what I said in the last paragraph of my post. They did not respond.W.C. Varoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663570682958847976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-1109141297692583222005-02-22T22:48:00.000-08:002005-02-22T22:48:00.000-08:00This is Orwellian-Bush, the ultimate spokesperson ...This is Orwellian-Bush, the ultimate spokesperson for his own Administration (!), specifically said in his State of the Union Address that the threat was not imminent.<br /><br />The quotes used by Steve J (how do you like working at the Times?) prove nothing. They describe possibilities, not likelihoods or certainties, and the arguments made were entirely plausible when the US, like the rest of the world, believed Saddam had WMD's at the ready.John Salmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09267280368859553938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-1109140229704140872005-02-22T22:30:00.000-08:002005-02-22T22:30:00.000-08:00The LA Times was correct to use the word "imminent...The LA Times was correct to use the word "imminent" to describe how Bush talked about the threat from Iraq.<br /><br />"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency." President Bush, 10/2/02<br /><br />"Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Cincinnati OH, 10/7/02 GW BUSH<br /><br /><br />"There are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. <B>Iraq could decide on any given day</B> to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."<br />• President Bush, 10/7/02<br /><br />"No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein." RUMSFELD, 9/18/02<br /><br />Q Well, we went to war, didn't we, to find these -- because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States? Isn't that true?<br />MR. FLEISCHER: Absolutely. 5/7/03Steve J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952259820467688797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9619963.post-1109139831466802752005-02-22T22:23:00.000-08:002005-02-22T22:23:00.000-08:00You should write them again.
I'm reminded of the...You should write them again. <br /><br />I'm reminded of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan line that "Everybody is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." <br /><br />The Times, in its arrogance, is saying, "It's our opinion that Bush was suggesting the threat was imminent, and we don't have to bother proving the point to low-life scum such as you. After all, we are professional journalists."<br /><br />Small wonder the old media is declining daily in credibility and public esteem.John Salmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09267280368859553938noreply@blogger.com