Today was a day of great spin by our own Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. In an interview with Meet the Press, host Tim Russert fired away some hard questions. The secretary seemed to be coming up with answers rather quickly, but if you listen closely you can hear how his own spin was catching […]
On Monday, Al Franken talked to David Phillips, an ex state department employee who knows a thing or two about Iraq. In 1998 when the United States first decided that Saddam was going to have to be removed from power eventually, the government started preparing for how to deal with post-war Iraq. The State Department […]
An interesting post was just published on crooksandliars.com comparing how we know dismiss Amnesty international reports, compared to two years ago when they were part of the gospel used in order to wage an attack on Saddam Hussein. On March 27, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld had this to say in a Pentagon press conference: Anyone who […]