The War, The Truth and the New York Times

A fellow blogger rips into a NYT editorial this past week:

So finally the truth is acknowledged by the mother of all main stream media, the New York Times.

The June 6 editorial, ‘The Truth About the War’ of the media giant begins with these words, “It took just a few months after the United States’ invasion of Iraq for the world to find out that Saddam Hussein had long abandoned his nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. He was not training terrorists or colluding with Al Qaeda. The only real threat he posed was to his own countrymen.” That it took more than five years for the leading light of a servile American media to finally find it out, is a fact glossed over most shamelessly.

Truth told late is worse than a murderous lie, is all that one can say to the NYT. It is a dishonest admission coming rather late for a million plus human beings. The icing on this deceitful piece of reporting is the ending of the Op-Ed. It says, “We cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Bush lied about Iraq. But when the president withholds vital information from the public - or leads them to believe things that he knows are not true - to justify the invasion of another country, that is bad enough.”

BAD ENOUGH! Did I read it right? That’s it? BAD ENOUGH! Would you believe it? A million murdered Iraqis, 4000 dead US soldiers, obliterated Iraqi cities, DU shot-up environment, countless crippled and maimed human beings, innumerable shattered lives and how does the NYT express its outrage; by calling it ‘bad enough’? “Sorry mommy, I just killed a million people.” “That’s bad. Don’t do that again, now eat your spinach” eh? Bad enough!? Someone hand me the sick bag please.

Every canon of the United Nations and the 1945 Nuremberg Charters, the International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions has been shot to doll rags by this criminal cabal in its willful, premeditated genocide of an innocent people and what does the American media leviathan call it? Bad enough!?

I recommend reading the whole thing. This past weekend was the Media Reform Conference, and I heard a inspiring speech from Bill Moyers - except it did not inspire me. It is very clear that the American people need to be well-informed to make good decisions about their government and what it does in the world - but it also seems to me that they want to stay UNINFORMED. Seems to me that only a great deal of pain will wake them up, and the $5/gallon gas will only be the start of it.

Meanwhile, the BILDERBERG group met this past weekend, and our complicit media dutifully ignored it completely. They most likely picked the vice-presidential candidates. (If they picked Clinton, I will vote for Cynthia McKinney.) If you don't know about this meeting, please go read this article.

And take a look at who was there.