Thursday, May 12, 2005

Wheres The Rest Of The Story?

What the hell is going on around here!? First this.

Sir Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said the leaked minute showed Blair had “agreed to an illegal regime change with the Bush administration. It set out to create the justification for going to war. It was to be war by any means.”
Downing Street claimed the document contained “nothing new”.


Nothing new in England because they actually have a media.
Now we get this.

THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organization.
I've been reading these storys for days online in papers around the world but barely a peep here. How, with the major implications these stories have, could any responsible news media not run these as big stories? I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but this is just unbelievable. I can think of no other reason to ignore these stories. The first story is really nothing new to many of us but some have denied this till they were blue in the face. Of course they may not be interested in the truth. The second story, I don't know. I'd like to hear more. These stories should be in our media just so we can add it to the national dialogue. Let's investigate at least.
We are often caught wondering why so many around the world have negative feelings about America. Maybe we don't understand because we aren't hearing the whole story.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What are you? Paul Harvey?

1:37 AM, May 13, 2005  
Blogger Jim said...

The San Francisco Chronicle actually mentioned the "C" memo on Friday's front page, lower left corner. No big deal.

CNN mentioned yesterday on their website that the group of Democratic Congressmen had asked the President to explain the memo. No response, no mention in other media that I know of.

There are very few reporters left, or editors that will let them report. Although, it was amusing to see a White House reporter ask Scott McClellan in the press "gaggle" (and I'm paraphrasing here): If it was determined that the airplane posed no danger [that's why the president wasn't told until after the pilots were in custody], why were 35,000 people told to run for their lives?

11:11 PM, May 13, 2005  
Blogger Ron said...

Paul Harvey? No not that old yet! I do have a great story about a poor share croppers son that grew up to be a hugely successful robber baron CEO.

9:29 PM, May 14, 2005  
Blogger Dedanna said...

E-N-R-O-N!

LOL.

6:35 PM, May 17, 2005  

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