Bush and Blair were blasted by thousands of newspapers and magazines>>

[PatPatriot]

About Iraq looking to by uranium for months and millions of words...Well now that it was founf they were'nt lying, this what those newspapers and mags have to say now.

Iraq uranium claim not based on fakes-UK inquiry (BUSH, BLAIR VINDICATED)
Reuters ^ | 7/14/04



LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) - A claim that Baghdad sought nuclear material in Africa was not based solely on forged documents, a British inquiry into pre-Iraq war intelligence found on Wednesday.
"We've looked at the intelligence on which the assessment was made and that intelligence did not rest on the forged documents, which only came to the attention of the Secret Intelligence Service subsequently," inquiry chairman Lord Butler told reporters
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>But there is no bias in the media. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

[xpanda]

(Funny how this media bias you seem to be unable to get around still provides you an inordinate amount of reporting with which to show us all how great and righteous Bush's war has been. Considering the media is so bloody Liberal, that's quite the accomplishment, don't you think? Or, maybe ....)

 

[Benassflick]

Your news stations and Bush
don't need to discuss the failings of the US news networks. Fox and NBC have often boasted about their loyalty to Bush's government. Owned by rightwing businessmen, they could reasonably be described as components of the military-industrial complex.

The Cardiff study, for example, shows that 86% of the broadcast news reports that mentioned weapons of mass destruction during the invasion of Iraq "suggested Iraq had such weapons", while "only 14% raised doubts about their existence or possible use". The claim by British and US forces that Iraq had fired illegal Scud missiles into Kuwait was reported 27 times on British news programmes. It was questioned on just four occasions: once by Sky and three times by Channel 4 News. The BBC even managed to embellish the story: its correspondent Ben Brown suggested that the non-existent Scuds might have been loaded with chemical or biological warheads

 

[Oceans11]

DR Congo uranium mine collapses

Although it is officially closed, thousands worked at the mine
Part of a uranium mine has collapsed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least nine people.
The Shinkolobwe mine supplied the uranium in the bombs which the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.

It was officially closed earlier this year but people still mine there for coltan, used in mobile phones.

Nuclear experts have raised fears that Congolese uranium could fall into the hands of terror groups.

'Trapped'

Petwe Kapande, mayor of the nearby town of Likasi, told the BBC that nine bodies had been found.

Some 30 miners were underground when the roof collapsed on Friday.


"When I arrived, I found that six of the clandestine miners had been pulled out safe and sound, but others still remained trapped in the ruins," Mwema Teli, a safety official for the Congo government mines agency, told the Associated Press news agency.

Because of poor communications in DR Congo, news of the collapse only reached the capital, Kinshasa on Monday.

Fears


Earlier this year, the BBC's Arnaud Zajtman found some 6,000 people working there illegally, even though it had officially been shut down.


Mobile phone demand has driven the miners to Shinkolobwe
At the same time, Mines Minister Diomi Ndongala appealed to the international community to help restore security in the area and prevent access to the mine.

When DR Congo became independent in 1960, the two main uranium shafts were flooded and covered with a concrete slab by the Belgians before their departure.

But activities resumed in 1997.

The mined cobalt is sold to private businessmen who operate furnaces in the area and then export it to the world market via neighbouring Zambia.

The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, expressed concern about the mine.

It said that trace elements of uranium might be extracted from the mine as an associated mineral along with the cobalt for use by terror groups.

As a result, in February of this year, President Joseph Kabila announced he had forbidden access to the mine. But the measure was never implemented.

A fragile peace is holding in DR Congo after five years of war, which dragged in at least six neighbouring armies.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3887373.stm

 

[PatPatriot]

Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Journalists 'Embarrassed' Bushies Cover Kerry Better Than They Do

When John Flip-Flop Kerry boasted to a group of fat-cat supporters in Boston that he and running mate John Edwards were "proud" they had voted against funding the troops they had voted to send to Iraq, you weren't supposed to hear that. Had it been up to the media establishment, you wouldn't have heard that.


So, why did you hear it? You can thank President Bush's re-election campaign.

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The pro-Kerry New York Times fretted today that, taking a cue from "Bill Clinton's pioneering effort in 1992," the president's "operatives had somehow arranged for their own audio feed, they refused to say how, and were listening intently, ready to pounce on any opening for attack."


After the Bushies alerted the media to Kerry's latest gaffe, even the likes of the Washington Post, Boston Globe and the Times itself had to report the news or risk being upstaged by rivals.


Exposed and Humiliated


"Several journalists who cover Mr. Kerry later said they were too embarrassed to say publicly that it took the Bush operatives to spot what was notable in Mr. Kerry's remarks," the Times noted.

Don't worry, "operatives" of Big Media. The Republicans will keep helping you do the job you're too biased or lazy to do yourselves.

 

[Shotgun]

Damn Patriot, cut the reporters some slack. Imagine having to listen to Kerry drone on and on...you would go to sleep as well.

 

[Benassflick]

Bush will be touring the U.S. this year where he is sure to find plenty of WMD and chemical weapoms. Period

 

[Benassflick]

Omissions, exaggerations and distortions emerge from the report while Lord Butler defends PM

Lord Butler cleared Tony Blair of any deliberate attempt to "mislead" the country in the run-up to the war in Iraq. But the body of his report tells a different story. Lord Hutton's inquiry last year, revealed the extent to which Downing Street hardened up the case against Saddam Hussein in its September 2002 dossier on alleged weapons of mass destruction that prepared the way for war.
Lord Butler's report shows the gap between Mr Blair's conclusions and what the intelligence services were saying was even bigger than emerged during the Hutton inquiry.

He recognised this gap when he said the language of the dossier was "fuller and firmer" than was the actual case.