Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold
Mother Jones¹ interactive Iraq timeline database lets you separate truth from spin:
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
Last week, President Bush said, "The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East." Pressed by a reporter on what 9/11 had to do with Iraq, Bush testily responded: "Nothing. Nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack."
Really? A look at Mother Jones timeline, "Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold" reveals that on Sept. 25, 2002, Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein when you talk about the war on terror." Three days later, Donald Rumsfeld said that the link between Saddam and Al Qaeda was "accurate and not debatable." And on and on.
This is but one example of how Mother Jones' timeline is an invaluable resource for journalists, bloggers, and ordinary citizens who want to reconstruct the truth behind the spin on Iraq. Each entry is sourced to original news accounts and source documents, allowing users to parse what the president meant by "ordered" and judge for themselves. Mother Jones' timeline database is sortable by tag (for example: "false intelligence," "Plamegate," "CIA," or "neocons") and searchable by keyword, so users can create customized timelines around the topics or people of their choice. And each entry includes a comment function.
When did Dick Cheney say, "The question in my mind is: How many additional casualties is Saddam worth? The answer is: Not very damn many." Who was the convicted sex offender and "known fabricator" behind much of Bush's WMD intelligence? Which terror alerts were timed for political convenience? Who said, "We will be greeted as liberators"? We hope the timeline will be of use in tracking down the answers to questions like these‹and to begin challenging those who, as the president would have it, "like to rewrite history."
What you'll find here is only a start, in two ways. We're launching with a chronology up until the invasion‹already hundreds of entries and sources‹but in future installments we'll take users up to the present day. And we trust that our Iraq War timeline will grow in ways we can't even anticipate, as it is circulated and commented on by users everywhere.
ONLINE NOW AT: http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
Informant: bigraccoon
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
Last week, President Bush said, "The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East." Pressed by a reporter on what 9/11 had to do with Iraq, Bush testily responded: "Nothing. Nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack."
Really? A look at Mother Jones timeline, "Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold" reveals that on Sept. 25, 2002, Bush said, "You can't distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein when you talk about the war on terror." Three days later, Donald Rumsfeld said that the link between Saddam and Al Qaeda was "accurate and not debatable." And on and on.
This is but one example of how Mother Jones' timeline is an invaluable resource for journalists, bloggers, and ordinary citizens who want to reconstruct the truth behind the spin on Iraq. Each entry is sourced to original news accounts and source documents, allowing users to parse what the president meant by "ordered" and judge for themselves. Mother Jones' timeline database is sortable by tag (for example: "false intelligence," "Plamegate," "CIA," or "neocons") and searchable by keyword, so users can create customized timelines around the topics or people of their choice. And each entry includes a comment function.
When did Dick Cheney say, "The question in my mind is: How many additional casualties is Saddam worth? The answer is: Not very damn many." Who was the convicted sex offender and "known fabricator" behind much of Bush's WMD intelligence? Which terror alerts were timed for political convenience? Who said, "We will be greeted as liberators"? We hope the timeline will be of use in tracking down the answers to questions like these‹and to begin challenging those who, as the president would have it, "like to rewrite history."
What you'll find here is only a start, in two ways. We're launching with a chronology up until the invasion‹already hundreds of entries and sources‹but in future installments we'll take users up to the present day. And we trust that our Iraq War timeline will grow in ways we can't even anticipate, as it is circulated and commented on by users everywhere.
ONLINE NOW AT: http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
Informant: bigraccoon
rudkla - 31. Aug, 17:57
