Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Press

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ronda Hauben <ronda () panix com>
Date: June 25, 2007 9:50:36 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Ronda Hauben <ronda () panix com>
Subject: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Press



Hi Dave

I though folks on IP would find my recent article about the  
continuing barrage against the supposed "axis of evil" countries to  
disprove the unsubstantiated accusations against them. Ronda

The article is:

Weapons of Mass Destruction Syndrome and the Press [Analysis] How  
does one prove a negative

 April 5, 2006. Congressman Ron Paul (Texas) makes a speech "Iran:  
The Next Neo-con Target." (1) He reviews the scenario of how the  
invasion of Iraq was prepared in the U.S. "We demand that Iran prove  
it is not in violation of nuclear agreements, which is asking them  
impossibly to prove a negative," Paul observes.

Mohamed El Bareidei, the IAEA Director, Paul explains, has supported  
Iran's contention that it has been in compliance with its rights  
under the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) IAEA safeguard  
agreement

What have we learned from the experience in Iraq, Paul asks?

Four years have passed since the U.S. government mobilized much of  
the U.S. press to create the .spin. which provided a pretext for the  
March 2003 invasion of Iraq. The U.S. government accused Iraq of  
having .Weapons of Mass Destruction." How could Iraq prove they  
didn.t have any of a whole catalogue of things that they were accused  
of having? There was no way for Iraq to disprove the accusations.  
Thus much of the U.S. press, in cooperation with various U.S.  
government officials, used the impossibility of proving a negative to  
create a media environment in which the U.S. government could falsely  
claim they had a justification a war against of Iraq.

The url is:

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp? 
article_class=3&no=368433&rel_no=1







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