Bill Moyer's Journal Interview

Bill Moyer interviewed Marilyn B. Young, historian, foreign policy guru and author of numerous books and articls, including "Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam" on his Journal program last night. Watch video here, and read the transcript. The interview concerned the neo-cons and especially Condoleeza Rice. Condoleeza's ability to lie knowing that everyone she knows is watching knows she's lieing is quite breathtaking. And there's also Condi's apparent life in another universe where dubya's Iraqi adventure is going wonderfully, the Iraqis invited us to their party, the UN asked us to go and those Iraqi's just hope we'll stay and play for eva :

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Marilyn B. Young:

There are a number of places where the deception is really quite extraordinary. But it's deception always with a half truth, which is the best kind of lie, the most persuasive lie. So she says, "It wasn't just our intelligence service that talked about weapons of mass destruction." That's true. The Germans looked into it and said, you know what? Your information is wrong, it's useless. So there were other intelligence services involved, but they disagreed with ours, which she didn't say.

Then she said the U.N. thought there were WMD's. But that's for people with really bad short term memory loss. Because Hans Blix, who was in the U.N. as inspector, was quite persuaded that in fact, there were no weapons of mass destruction. The most extraordinary one, though, the really one that just takes my breath away, is where she says we're in Iraq because the Iraqi government invited us there. And we're there under a U.N. mandate. Saddam Hussein certainly didn't invite us in. And the UN mandate that she refers to, it's a resolution, it's not a mandate-- it says, after all, we're all agreed that everyone should help in the reconstruction of Iraq. That's all. It's not a mandate for occupation, at all.

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