Alexandra at All Things Beautiful highlights today an excellent comment by Martin A. Knight, responding to a Lorie Byrd post at Wizbang.
Knight makes a compelling case that the mainstream media have deliberately embargoed any mention of the threat widely recognized to have been posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, leading up to the current Iraq war.
From Alexandra's post, here are some of the headlines from late in the Clinton administration that you haven't heard much about since the current Iraq war began:
* US Government - Bin Laden and Iraq Agreed to Cooperate on Weapons Development - New York Times (November 1998)
* Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say - New York Times (November 1998)
* U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production of Chemical Weapons in Sudan - New York Times (August 1998)
* Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort - New York Times (February 2000)
* Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration - New York Times (February 2000)
* Flight Tests Show Iraq Has Resumed a Missile Program - New York Times (July 2000)
* Iraqi Work Toward A-Bomb Reported - Washington Post (September 1998)
What's the motive for this widespread media embargo? To support the mainstream media narrative that Saddam Hussein was never considered a threat by anyone before President Bush came to office and "manipulated intelligence" to make it so.
You can read more at All Things Beautiful.
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