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June 16, 2003

Bush Blasts 'Revisionist Historians' on Iraq- "President Bush countered those questioning his justification for the invasion of Iraq on Monday, dismissing 'revisionist historians' and saying Washington acted to counter a persistent threat."

Takes one to know one, I guess. Let's check out Bush's own revisionism in the same article.

Said Bush, "Saddam Hussein was a threat to America and the free world in '91, in '98, in 2003. He continually ignored the demands of the free world, so the United States and friends and allies acted... This is for certain, Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States and our friends and allies."

1) Saddam Hussein was not a threat to America and the free world in '91. After 10 years of warfare, Saddam's army couldn't defeat Iran, let alone the world's number #1 military power, and/or the rest of the free world. Quite frankly, I've seen some compelling accounts that the invasion of Kuwait was simply a means to obtaining disputed oils fields on the border of the two countries, and that Iraq mistakenly believed that they'd gotten the thumbs up from the U.S. to go ahead with that plan. Remember, from the 1950s through early August 1990, Saddam Hussein was a "valuable asset" who helped keep Islamist Iran in line. But by the time late August rolled around, Saddam was Hitler. If that's not revisionist history, I don't know what is.

2) I'm really not sure what the 1998 comment refers to. I guess 1998 was when the UN inspectors left Iraq. Obviously, Iraq was even less of a threat to America and the free world after being soundly defeated in Gulf War I, and after enduring 7 years of strict economic sanctions. And if Iraq wasn't much of a threat in 1991...

3) For information about how Iraq was not a threat to the United States or free world in 2003, check just about any entry on this website.

4) "He continually ignored the demands of the free world, so the United States and friends and allies acted." EXTREMELY interesting interpretation of events. The "United States and friends and allies acted" not to protect themselves, or the free world, or to liberatre the Iraqi people, but because Saddam Hussein "continually ignored the demands of the free world." Is the theory that Iraq was invaded due to disobedience a revision of history, or an accurate account?

5) How are we certain that Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to our friends and allies? No one knows if he's alive or dead! If he's still alive, and has any loyal, armed troops at his command, he could still cause some havok.

Damn those historical revisionists, damn them to hell!!

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The mention of 1998 might be a reference to Bush's "implication" that the IAEA reported that year that Iraq could have had nuclear capability withing six months. However, the IAEA report was talking about Iraq in '91, before the Gulf War, and before the IAEA began to dismantle just about all of the nuclear programs in Iraq.

Read more about it in the second myth/misconception in this article: http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030320.html

Posted by: Ducky Johnson at June 22, 2003 11:24 PM

The mention of 1998 might be a reference to Bush's "implication" that the IAEA reported that year that Iraq could have had nuclear capability withing six months. However, the IAEA report was talking about Iraq in '91, before the Gulf War, and before the IAEA began to dismantle just about all of the nuclear programs in Iraq.

Read more about it in the second myth/misconception in this article: http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030320.html

Posted by: Ducky Johnson at June 22, 2003 11:25 PM

The mention of 1998 might be a reference to Bush's "implying" that the IAEA reported that year that Iraq could have had nuclear capability withing six months. However, the IAEA report was talking about Iraq in '91, before the Gulf War, and before the IAEA began to dismantle just about all of the nuclear programs in Iraq.

Read more about it in the second myth/misconception in this article: http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20030320.html

Posted by: Ducky Johnson at June 22, 2003 11:26 PM
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November 16, 2004

Tales of Media Woe

Senate May Ram Copyright Bill- one of the most depressing stories of the day that didn't involve death or bombs. It's the music and movie industries' wet dream. It criminalizes peer-to-peer software makers, allows the government to file civil lawsuits on behalf of these media industries, and eliminates fair use. Fair use is the idea that I can use a snippet of a copyrighted work for educational, political, or satirical purposes, without getting permission from the copyright-holder first.

And most tellingly, the bill legalizes technology that would automatically skip over "obejctionable content" (i.e. sex and violence) in a DVD, but bans devices that would automatically skip over commericals. This is a blatant, blatant, blatant gift to the movie industry. Fuck the movie industry, fuck the music industry, fuck the Senate.

Music industry aims to send in radio cops- the recording industry says that you're not allowed to record songs off the radio, be it real radio or internet radio. And now they're working on preventing you from recording songs off internet radio through a mixture of law and technological repression (although I imagine their techno-fixes will get hacked pretty quickly).

The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few- blogger Jeff Jarvis discovers that the recent $1.2 million FCC fine against a sex scene in Fox's "Married By America" TV show was not levied because hundreds of people wrote the FCC and complained. It was not because 159 people wrote in and complained (which is the FCC's current rationale). No, thanks to Jarvis' FOIA request, we find that only 23 people (of the show's several million viewers) wrote in and complained. On top of that, he finds that 21 of those letters were just copy-and-paste email jobs that some people attached their names to. Jarvis then spins this a bit by saying that "only 3" people actually wrote letters to the FCC, which is misleading but technically true. So somewhere between 3 and 23 angry people can determine what you can't see on television. Good to know.

Reuters Union Considers Striking Over Layoffs- will a strike by such a major newswire service impact the rest of the world's media?

Pentagon Starts Work On War Internet- the US military is talking about the creation of a global, wireless, satellite-aided computer network for use in battle. I think I saw a movie about this once...

Conservative host returns to the air after week suspension for using racial slur- Houston radio talk show host (and somtime Rush Limbaugh substitute) Mark Belling referred to Mexican-Americans as "wetbacks" on his show. He was suspended for a couple of weeks, and then submitted a written apology for the racial slur to a local newspaper. But he seems to be using the slur and its surrounding controversy to boost his conservative cred with his listeners.

Stay Tuned for Nudes- Cleveland TV news anchor Sharon Reed aired a story about artist Spencer Tunick, who uses large numbers of naked volunteers in his installations and photographs. The news report will be unique in that it will not blur or black-out the usual naughty bits. The story will air late at night, when it's allegedly okay with the FCC if you broadcast "indecent" material. The author of this article doesn't seem to notice that Reed first claims that this report is a publicity stunt, but then claims it's a protest against FCC repression. I'd like to think it's the latter, but I'm not that much of a sucker.

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