The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Yet more deception on Niger/Yellowcake -- where will it end?
One of my favorite blog spots is Gregory Djerejian’s Belgravia Dispatch. Today he does not disappoint, as we continue to look into the scandalous treatment of the Niger Uranium question by the press. There is no question that the press not only got this wrong, but that the major news outlets also fell all over themselves in a “feeding frenzy” designed to discredit President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, and to pump up Mr. Wilson, who is now completely discredited. But rather than come clean and admit it went too far, many in the press continue to this day to try and create untrue justifications for how they could have been so wrong and Bush/Blair so right about this matter. When the truth no longer matters; when a reporter or editor's newspaper becomes more important than the country that reporter lives in, we have values that are not only incredibly skewed, but which endanger the rest of us. In the age where a suitcase nuke can kill hundreds of thousands and wreck the world economy in one fell swoop, can we afford to continue to allow these propogandists to go on unchecked, all in the name of a bankrupt ideology?
