“60 Minutes” tells lies

I watched 60 Minutes last night and they had a part of their show about Saddam and WMDs. The first thing the old white guy said was: “After Saddam drew us into two wars and countless military engagements.....”

Well, the poor widdle bitty United States! Being pulled into wars against their wishes! And have to go bomb some other country when they would rather be watching TV!

This announcer went on to repeat all the bushies lies from 2002. He asked the question “Why did Saddam choose war?”. Of course, it was the USuk who choose war, but this guy is not going to let a few facts get in the way of a good pack of lies. The point of the show was to interview the FBI agent (pictured above) who was born in Lebanon and moved to the US at age 12. Now, this guy either does not know any recent history concerning Iraq and the US, or he is a massive liar also. But maybe he does not know how to read in English, and that is why he got so much wrong. I kinda doubt it, though.

This FBI guy said that Saddam did not know he was an agent for the FBI and they had lead Saddam to believe that bush himself spoke directly with this FBI agent. He spoke to Saddam for hours over several months. The FBI agent claimed that a speech Saddam made in June 2000 was about WMDs – but there was not a shred of evidence to support that claim. The FBI agent did finally get around to asking Saddam “why keep the secret? Why keep the charade going around WMDs in Iraq?”

EXCEPT, OF COURSE, SADDAM DIDN’T. SADDAM CLEARLY SAID IN 2002 AND EARLY 2003 THAT HE DID NOT HAVE ANY WMDS.

But why talk about what really happened when you can foster a bunch of lies on the American public? The FBI agent claimed that Saddam did it to stay in power and to keep Iran at bay. The old white guy then asked the FBI guy why Saddam did not stop the charade when US troops were massing on his border. The FBI guy said that Saddam did not believe that the US would invade.

Personally, I wanted to believe that the US would not be so stupid as to invade either. But it was only a hope, I fully realized that the current US administration, along with most of the citizens, are really that stupid and immoral.

The FBI agent said that Saddam claimed that the “secret war” was to start after two weeks after the US invaded. This claim rather contradicts that Saddam did not think the US would invade – but hey, who needs any attachment to reality, when keeping Americans stooopid is so much more fun. Then he went on to say that “we” knew so little about Saddam – like he was not connected to al Qaeda or bin Laden. Well, I certainly figured that one out, and it was easy to figure out. The FBI guy claimed Saddam had no remorse or regret.

Well, bush has killed more Iraqis than Saddam and made their lives a WHOLE LOT WORSE and I don’t see any remorse or regret from him – or from any of the other politicians and assholes and so-called journalists that got this unnecessary war started. I believe that they are, like Saddam and the FBI agent and the 60 Minutes old white guy, sociopaths who just don’t care about the pain of others.

The FBI guy said that the FBI was really proud of their interview. I cannot see how they could be proud of this pack of lies. I guess they are proud of lying.

I was not the only one who saw this smorgasbord of lies. Here is a post on the subject written by someone else:

CBS Falsifies Iraq War History

In the real world, Saddam Hussein's Iraq announced in 2002 that it didn't have WMD, sent the U.N. a 12,000-page declaration to that effect, and let U.N. inspectors in to check. In George W. Bush's world -- and according to "60 Minutes" -- none of that happened.

I provided a link to the 60 Minutes story, but I strongly recommend that you DO NOT WATCH IT. It is just a mess of lies. The link to the article above is worth a read. He brings up my favorite all-time lie of bush around Saddam: when bush claims that Saddam did not let UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq!! bush says this in public in front of 'journalists' in the US and they don't even confront him or question him. I think we should just stop calling them 'journalists' and call them 'boot-lickers' instead.

ADDITION: Here is how it was easy to figure out that what the bushies said in 2002 was a lie: They said Iraq had WMDs. They said they knew where the WMDs were. They had UN weapons inspectors in Iraq in late 2002...... somehow, the bushies could not (or would not) tell the UN weapons inpsectors where the WMDs were........ and the logical conclusion to that set of facts is - THE BUSHIES WERE LYING!