Lies and the Lying Liars--Part Seven

Alexander Cockburn makes a good point today in Coutnerpunch:

People are dying in Fallujah and other towns across Iraq in part because the US press didn't do its job and mostly swallowed, hook, line, sinker, reel and rod, the WMD claims of Bush, Powell, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the others. Right now US forces, either in uniform or disguised as civilian contractors, are hunting for Sadr the Shia cleric on the grounds his newspaper is telling lies. There's an idea! Send the troops into the New York Times newsroom and arrest Judith Miller! Then run across town and arrest the editor of the New Yorker for printing Jeffrey Goldberg's endless fictions about the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection.

And, while at Counterpunch, check out Robert Fisk's article on Saddam. Fisk explains why we were so eager to grant him POW status: so we could ship him out of the country. Unfortunately, Saddam is turning out to have as much of a grasp of the situation in Iraq as Dubya, which is to say, none at all. Seems as if he was surrounded by so many syncophants telling him what he wanted to hear, instead of the facts.

Sounds familiar, no?