A Powerful Tale Unravels

[gr8fuldaniel]

Washington Post exposes Bush cartel propaganda which drummed support for war in Iraq. They ran a pack of lies fueled by the Bush Junta in July of 03. Now they run a retraction on page B-06, sunday. So now we can just UN-Bomb Iraq.

A Powerful Tale Unravels By Michael Getler Sunday, January 23, 2005; Page B06 On July 21, 2003, The Post published a wrenching front-page story about a 41-year-old Iraqi woman, Jumana Michael Hanna, who said that during the mid-1990s she had endured torture and rape inside the prison cells of Saddam Hussein's "police academy." The headline over the 2,800-word story by correspondent Peter Finn read, "A Lone Woman Testifies to Iraq's Order of Terror." <snip> The problem, however, as The Post and Peter Finn reported Thursday in a follow-up article, is that her claims were false. But the only reason we now know this is because of an even lengthier article in the January edition of Esquire magazine by Sara Solovitch, who had contracted to do a book about Hanna and who, in the course of interviewing her, uncovered what first seemed like exaggerations, then crippling doubts and then untruths in her story.

Isnt this what Waxman just spanked them for a couple of weeks ago?
Remember this?

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT WASHINGTON, D.C. - Democratic leaders in Congress today called on President Bush to stop the alarming use of illegal covert propaganda to promote government policy after two new accounts of such activity surfaced today. In a letter to the President, they pointed out that the use of covert propaganda has been revealed through independent investigations by at least three separate federal agencies. "We are concerned that these three incidents, while serious and disturbing on their own, may not be isolated incidents," the lawmakers wrote to the President. "It would be abhorrent to our system of government if these incidents were part of a deliberate pattern of behavior by your Administration to deceive the public and the media in an effort to further your policy objectives." They called on the President to "publicly renounce the use of covert propaganda to influence public opinion. And we urge you to direct your department and agency heads to immediately disclose all past and on-going efforts to engage in covert propaganda, whether through contracts with commentators, the distribution of video news releases, or other means." A letter to the president, from Henry Waxman (Same Link) Jan 7, 05 <snippet> Covert propaganda to influence public opinion is unethical and dangerous. It violates fundamental principles of open government and it distorts the free press and the public's right to know. And it is illegal. GAO found that both sets of video news releases violated prohibitions against publicity and propaganda because they did not identify the federal government as the source of the fabricated news reports.

[Scribbler1]

Was this woman an Iraqi lawyer, who had been raped and tortured as well as declared insane for speaking out against Saddam Hussein? I recall a story on her in Time.