Secretarial Misinformation
Dear Editor:
Two Secretaries of State have been mired in the same mud of administration lies, deception, and spin. Mr. Powell and Ms. Rice have both been caught in this web of deception by pushing the Bush/ Cheney/Rumsfeld policy of we’re never wrong, and always right when it comes to America’s actions pertaining to Iraq and the so-called war on terrorism.
Mr. Powell took flawed intelligence to the United Nations to try and convince the world body, and the American public, that the Saddam regime in Iraq possessed WMDs that were a threat to the USA and the rest of the world. We were told by his boss, Mr. Bush, that we couldn’t wait until there was a “mushroom cloud” over our cities. The former Secretary has since stated that he was misled and has misgivings about his speech to the UN. He came clean.
Ms. Rice now has taken the podium and denies that the US has anything to do with secret CIA flights and prisons, and that we as a country abhor torture. Rice did not confirm or deny the existence of the prisons, saying, "We cannot discuss information that would compromise the success of intelligence, law enforcement and military operations." She further stated that intelligence cooperation between the United States and European countries has "helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives," In other words US actions that she claims helped European countries never really happened. That’s called spin from an expert.
No wonder other countries do not trust the word of the United States any more. The reputations of two very good people have been smeared due to their loyalty to the president and the use of bad information, denials, spin, and out and out lies that his administration has made its legacy.
Two Secretaries of State have been mired in the same mud of administration lies, deception, and spin. Mr. Powell and Ms. Rice have both been caught in this web of deception by pushing the Bush/ Cheney/Rumsfeld policy of we’re never wrong, and always right when it comes to America’s actions pertaining to Iraq and the so-called war on terrorism.
Mr. Powell took flawed intelligence to the United Nations to try and convince the world body, and the American public, that the Saddam regime in Iraq possessed WMDs that were a threat to the USA and the rest of the world. We were told by his boss, Mr. Bush, that we couldn’t wait until there was a “mushroom cloud” over our cities. The former Secretary has since stated that he was misled and has misgivings about his speech to the UN. He came clean.
Ms. Rice now has taken the podium and denies that the US has anything to do with secret CIA flights and prisons, and that we as a country abhor torture. Rice did not confirm or deny the existence of the prisons, saying, "We cannot discuss information that would compromise the success of intelligence, law enforcement and military operations." She further stated that intelligence cooperation between the United States and European countries has "helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives," In other words US actions that she claims helped European countries never really happened. That’s called spin from an expert.
No wonder other countries do not trust the word of the United States any more. The reputations of two very good people have been smeared due to their loyalty to the president and the use of bad information, denials, spin, and out and out lies that his administration has made its legacy.
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 4:55 AM
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