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	<title>Comments on: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan: Judith Miller and Tariq Ali</title>
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		<title>By: flutecake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;While I found Ms. Miller’s rebuffs of Laura’s follow up questions annoying, I have to say there was quite a lot that Miller glossed over and she seemed very testy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My work day doesn’t afford me time to tune in live, I watch these via video podcast– I bet the email questions were red hot &amp; in ALL CAPS regarding Miller’s attitude.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Funny that she seems quite up-to-date on Mr. Chalabi’s address!  LOL&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On another note, Tariq Ali was very insightful and I am hoping he’ll return to the show.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Laura &amp; staff, for all you do.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I found Ms. Miller’s rebuffs of Laura’s follow up questions annoying, I have to say there was quite a lot that Miller glossed over and she seemed very testy.</p>
<p>My work day doesn’t afford me time to tune in live, I watch these via video podcast– I bet the email questions were red hot &amp; in ALL CAPS regarding Miller’s attitude.</p>
<p>Funny that she seems quite up-to-date on Mr. Chalabi’s address!  LOL</p>
<p>On another note, Tariq Ali was very insightful and I am hoping he’ll return to the show.</p>
<p>Thanks, Laura &amp; staff, for all you do.</p>
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		<title>By: jrsincolorado</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;While I admire Ms. miller’s courage to appear on Laura’s program, it was utterly disingenuous to suggest that there was anything at all resembling a fair debate during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Quite coincidentally I was in the midst of a self-imposed ban from all commercial media excepting newspapers at the time (a very interesting experiment I might add which completely radicalized my viewpoint re US foreign policy) and of all my family, friends, and associates in my personal sphere of reasonably well educated and seemingly informed folk, I alone seemed aware of the blatant propoganda campaign the Bush administration was engaged in, and the role of the lapdog press in spreading it. It was not due to any particular cleverness on my part, or great effort in reading the foreign press. It was simply due to the fact that I chose at the time to use public radio (KGNU, Boulder Colorado) for the mainstay of my daily information. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The aluminum tubes were known not to possess the necessary tolerance for any use in centrifugal proceesiing and enrichment of uranium, and to suggest that it was a reasonable inference based on the facts available simply echoes the pathetic excuse that many of our leaders have since employed to defend their misguided support of the invasion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With perhaps a half-million or more deaths partly on her hands, I, too, would be reticent to admit any responsibility for such war mongering, but the fact remains that the mainstream press was at the very least complicit, and in the case of the NY Times, very much active in the misinformation campaign of the time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, things seemed to have changed little since then as witnessed by the hue and cry over the Russian-Georgia conflict with nary a mention of Georgia’s role in the agression or the close ties between Georgia and key US politicians like McCain who likely gave tacit if not explicit approval for such.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the efforts of those who produce shows like Laura’s, at least the information is out there for those willing to take the time–if only that included the majority of our leaders, we might not make such foreign policy gaffes in the future.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I admire Ms. miller’s courage to appear on Laura’s program, it was utterly disingenuous to suggest that there was anything at all resembling a fair debate during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Quite coincidentally I was in the midst of a self-imposed ban from all commercial media excepting newspapers at the time (a very interesting experiment I might add which completely radicalized my viewpoint re US foreign policy) and of all my family, friends, and associates in my personal sphere of reasonably well educated and seemingly informed folk, I alone seemed aware of the blatant propoganda campaign the Bush administration was engaged in, and the role of the lapdog press in spreading it. It was not due to any particular cleverness on my part, or great effort in reading the foreign press. It was simply due to the fact that I chose at the time to use public radio (KGNU, Boulder Colorado) for the mainstay of my daily information. </p>
<p>The aluminum tubes were known not to possess the necessary tolerance for any use in centrifugal proceesiing and enrichment of uranium, and to suggest that it was a reasonable inference based on the facts available simply echoes the pathetic excuse that many of our leaders have since employed to defend their misguided support of the invasion.</p>
<p>With perhaps a half-million or more deaths partly on her hands, I, too, would be reticent to admit any responsibility for such war mongering, but the fact remains that the mainstream press was at the very least complicit, and in the case of the NY Times, very much active in the misinformation campaign of the time.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, things seemed to have changed little since then as witnessed by the hue and cry over the Russian-Georgia conflict with nary a mention of Georgia’s role in the agression or the close ties between Georgia and key US politicians like McCain who likely gave tacit if not explicit approval for such.</p>
<p>Thanks to the efforts of those who produce shows like Laura’s, at least the information is out there for those willing to take the time–if only that included the majority of our leaders, we might not make such foreign policy gaffes in the future.</p>
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