I don't even know anymore why i bother pointing this out, but here goes anyways...

Phil Donahue interviewed by Bill Moyers about the show in which he had Scott Ritter. Phil doesn't tell you what scott ritter said, Bill doesn't ask. The story about Phil being fired is about Phil. Kinda weird because the most important part of the story is left out, which is of course, what was so contentious about the show in which Scott Ritter appeared? Yet in this story, Scott Ritter and his story are muted. Not a single soundbite from the show is used. Why?

I think the answer came just a few scenes earlier, in which Moyers hangs on to the tired old whitehouse propaganda that inspectors were expelled from Iraq in 98. This of course is a lie, and it is a lie Scott Ritter has continually adressed. In 98, the US pulled it's inspectors out of Iraq on a flimsy non-compliance complaint.
Why again?
Because as Scott Ritter explains as one of the inspectors running the show at that point, the inspections were only 2 weeks away from filing a final report that concluded that at least 95% of sadams weapons were destroyed, and all facilities that could produce biological weapons were destroyed (bios have a shelf life of 2 yrs, so by 2001 the whitehouse knew no bio's existed).
The US started to increase inspections and make them more personal (showing up first thing at a sadam residence wanting access immediately, which of course security officials could not do)
the US made complaint and pulled all inspectors 2 weeks before a final conclusion was to be submitted to the UN and white house, that would have legally ended sanctions (no weapons, no sanctions)...
and yet Moyers continues that same old tired propaganda about inspectors being kicked out, and even uses the visage of Ritter to gain cred (only scenes earlier in the show, Moyers refers to the inspections stopping when inspectors were 'expelled')...

Of the interview with Phil, it was assinine. the only thing i learned from it was that Phil's bosses look at him as a SUPER-LIBERAL (equal to two regular talk show liberals according to Phil)...


is anyone aware of the fact that moyers was Whitehouse spokesperson (press secreatry) during the johnson regiem, and built spin for him to cover up the holocaust known as the Vietnam War?

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Actually, wasn't it about that time, 1998, when Bill Clinton lauched some cruise missles into Baghdad, ostensibly because of an assassination plot against George Bush, GWB's Dad? Before he lauched, Bill warned the UN to pull out the inspectors.

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andrewstromotich...You're task on this site was to diss Moyers..huh? How much do you get paid by the Neocons? Most of what you've brought out is petty and stupid crap. Have you MISSED the major discussion of the video (much of which I already knew). Moyers puts, in one place, the collusion by our Executive Branch to defraud the American public and sell the Iraq war. Many people watching this probably could not believe that the entire Executive Branch was tasked to sell the war in matching cupidic statements. MOST of what they said constitutes impeachable offenses and other crimes.

Thank God for Moyers. Would that there be more like him!

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