Rumsfeld Strikes Back at Critics of U.S. Effort on Terror: "'If you've got Al Jazeera, day after day after day, pounding the region with things that aren't true, that makes it difficult,' Mr. Rumsfeld said."

Who exactly is pounding the region with lies? Isn't this the guy who is ultimately responsible for the Pentagon's office that disseminates lies to influence public opinion at home & in foreign allies' media. And isn't this the hero who told us that he knew where the Iraqi WMD were hidden. (though he failed to tell the UN inspectors who were charged with finding them.) This is the brave and fearless leader who accepts the death of soldiers in Iraq as a necessary consequences of doing "something".

This is the administration that invaded Iraq on the basis that they were an imminent threat to the US due to their WMD, and held out the terrifying prospect of attacks with nuclear weapons. But they knew that these were hyped up arguments. Wolfowitz admitted that the real reasons were compeletely different.

So again. Who is pounding the region with lies?


- posted by geoff @ #