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Problems for Tony Blair:
BBC political editor Andrew Marr says very senior figures “right at the top of Whitehall” no longer believe the weapons [of mass destruction] are likely to be found.
Problems for George Bush:
On Tuesday the White House acknowledged that allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from the African state of Niger were based on forged documents.
You can almost see why governments feel the need to stage-manage news for the viewing public. Remember when Private Jessica Lynch was supposedly captured by Iraqi forces and then abused on her hospital bed until the American military stormed the building and saved her? The BBC has the real story:
Reports claimed that she had stab and bullet wounds and that she had been slapped about on her hospital bed and interrogated. [BUT] “There was no [sign of] shooting, no bullet inside her body, no stab wound - only road traffic accident. They want to distort the picture. I don’t know why they think there is some benefit in saying she has a bullet injury.”
Witnesses told us that the special forces knew that the Iraqi military had fled a day before they swooped on the hospital. “It was like a Hollywood film. They cried ‘go, go, go’, with guns and blanks without bullets, blanks and the sound of explosions. They made a show for the American attack on the hospital - action movies like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan.” … The American strategy was to ensure the right television footage by using embedded reporters and images from their own cameras, editing the film themselves.
May it be a lesson to us all that what we see on TV is not always the truth.
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