So you're not sure yet whether the government lied to us about the war? Please check this out. On Wednesday, April 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS, the Bill Moyers Journal series premiered with "Buying the War," a 90-minute documentary exploring the role of the press in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. Please set some time aside to click on the link and watch this essential piece of reporting if you haven't seen it already. John Walcott, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel of Knight Ridder newspapers are my new media heroes!
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
And what do I have to say about it? Well for one thing, this excellent documentary is just a beginning. A dear childhood friend of mine called today, and when the conversation came around to the war in Iraq, she said she wasn't sure the government had lied to us. Since I know she's a stubborn Iowa conservative, I wasn't aghast to hear that she's still not sure they lied. I bluntly asserted, "They lied. There's no question. Stop watching Fox News and get on the Internet for the truth." So here's a start. Click and watch. It's your first step towards some truth.
And by the way, I frankly do not understand people who claim they aren't political. "I'm not political," they say. As if they're proud of it! Don't they get it? Our democracy is based on an informed citizenry. If you're not informed, then you're not participating in our democracy. And without participation, we have no democracy. Get it? Worse yet, if you think you are informed, but what's in your head is a pack of lies (thanks to the mainstream media, and not just Fox News), what then? Huh? What then! Do you have the guts to dig for the truth? To view things from another perspective? To admit that you may have been mislead? Huh?
Nah! But God how I wish you'd surprise me.
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The personal is political and the political is personal. It is quite a shame that a great number of people in this country don't seem to get that. Bravo, Cat!
Rather misleded than missled or, as Condominium Rice said, "I don't want that smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," or as Judith Miller made it out to be, "Plague in a pea-can" or, as Mau-mau Dowd preciently put it, "You can get a lot done in Washington if you don't care who gets the credit."
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