Propaganda 101: Falsely Linking Iraq to 9/11

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A Buzzflash editorial rips and deconstructs the latest propaganda effort to link Saddam to 9/11, noting: "the charge that Saddam Hussein was connected to Osama bin Laden, which was recently denied by Bush himself, was resurrected last week in the Weekly Standard. The Standard, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is the 'intellectual' Neo-con bed of radical ideas, subversive to American Democracy. It is kind of like a Pravda for Neo-cons with advanced degrees. FOX News, also owned by Murdoch, of course, received this baton of mistruth and prevarication about the Saddam/Al-Qaeda/9-11 connection (because that is the goal of this lie) and aired it across the nation and world. Meanwhile right wing NewsMax also picked it up. You can rest assured that other Bush Cartel media outlets provided an echo chamber for the lie perpetrated in the Weekly Standard article. Rush Limbaugh was still being 'rehabbed,' otherwise he would have force read it to the Ditto Heads."