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CBS Rewrites History of the Iraq War

December 2, 2011 at 3:09 PM Leave a comment

This happened last night on the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley:

A December 1 CBS Evening News report about the Iraq War managed to mislead viewers about the start of the war and severely diminish the loss of civilian lives.

Reporting on the handover of the U.S. military headquarters to Iraqi forces, anchor Scott Pelley announced:

What began in 2003 as an effort to overthrow Saddam Hussein became a vicious religious war, pitting Iraqi against Iraqi–with the U.S. caught in the middle.

Of course, the United States invaded Iraq with the stated aim of disarming Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, which did not exist. Any serious conversation of the war should include this fact.

And the United States, as the instigators of that war, cannot credibly be considered to be “caught in the middle.”

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Ah yes, the poor United States.  It got “caught in the middle” of a religious war so hey, the poor widdle country (the US) couldn’t help that it had to stay there for such a long time.

Wow.

In Canada, lying during a newscast is illegal.  I wish that were so in the US.

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