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The Truth will prevail, but only if we demand it from Congress! 9-11 Inside Job and Neocons Hacked 2004 SCROLL DOWN
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Reign of ErrorBy PAUL KRUGMAN Published: July 28, 2006 The Bush administration continues to be remarkably successful at rewriting history. At one level, this shouldn’t be all that surprising. The people now running America never accept inconvenient truths. Long after facts they don’t like have been established, whether it’s the absence of any wrongdoing by the Clintons in the Whitewater affair or the absence of W.M.D. in Iraq, the propaganda machine ... is still at work, seeking to flush those facts down the memory hole. But it’s dismaying to realize that the machine remains so effective. Here’s how the process works. First, if the facts fail to support the administration position on an issue — stem cells, global warming, tax cuts, income inequality, Iraq — officials refuse to acknowledge the facts. ... “The tax cuts have made the tax code more progressive and reduced income inequality,” Edward Lazear, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, declared... Condoleezza Rice..., when pressed to explain why the administration always links the Iraq war to 9/11.., admitted that Saddam, “as far as we know, did not order Sept. 11, may not have even known of Sept. 11.” (Notice how her statement, while literally true, nonetheless seems to imply both that it’s still possible that Saddam ordered 9/11, and that he probably did know about it.)... Meanwhile, apparatchiks in the media spread disinformation. ...[I]magine what the world looks like to the large number of Americans who get their news by watching Fox and listening to Rush Limbaugh... I get a pretty good sense from my mailbag. Many of my correspondents are [convinced]... the economy is better than it ever was under Bill Clinton, newly released documents show that Saddam really was in cahoots with Osama, and the discovery of some decayed 1980’s-vintage chemical munitions vindicates everything the administration said about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. ... And what about the perceptions of those who get their news from sources that aren’t de facto branches of the Republican National Committee? The climate of media intimidation that prevailed for several years after 9/11, which made news organizations very cautious about reporting facts that put the administration in a bad light, has abated. But it’s not entirely gone. ... And the conventions of he-said-she-said reporting, under which lies and truth get equal billing, continue to work in the administration’s favor. Whatever the reason, the fact is that the Bush administration continues to be remarkably successful at rewriting history. For example, Mr. Bush has repeatedly suggested that the United States had to invade Iraq because Saddam wouldn’t let U.N. inspectors in. His most recent statement to that effect was only a few weeks ago. ... If there have been reports by major news organizations pointing out that that’s not at all what happened, I’ve missed them. It’s all very Orwellian, of course. But when Orwell wrote of “a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past,” he was thinking of totalitarian states. Who would have imagined that history would prove so easy to rewrite in a democratic nation with a free press?
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