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Comment: The neoconservative and neoliberal mainstream media played a more significant role in engineering the Iraq War than the oil industry. The leadership of the media is much more closely associated with the Israel lobby than with the oil lobby. Excerpt: It's an article of faith among Beltway conservatives these days that the media are out to undermine the Iraq war. I have never seen any evidence of that. The quick dismissal of this memo offers further proof that the media are generally supportive of what is in essence a Wilsonian exercise in nation-building. Consider the major newspapers of New York, the most liberal city in the nation. The Wall Street Journal is rabidly pro-war, outdone perhaps only by the New York Post. The New York Times? Reporter Judy Miller engendered as much war fever with theoretical weapons of mass destruction as William Randolph Hearst did with the actual sinking of the USS Maine. As for the writers on the Times opinion pages, they generally endorsed the idea that spreading democracy to the Mideast was a proper use of U.S. power. Their objections focused more on Bush's bungling of that objective. That would also describe the position of the leading liberal politician in New York and in the nation, Sen. Hillary Clinton. I keep reading that the nation is in the grip of a fierce ideological struggle over the Iraq war, but I don't see it. Hillary Clinton's view of the war seems to differ only slightly from the views of the neoconservatives at the Weekly Standard and the National Review. All agree that "liberating" Iraqis constituted a proper use of our military might and our tax dollars. If given a magic wand and a chance to go back to February 2003 and abort the invasion, I doubt if either the liberals or the neocons would wave it. ________________________________________________________________________ Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
