Condoleezza Rice branded a liar by journalist
Gerard Jackson
Roy Eccleston didn’t actually call Condoleezza Rice a liar (The Australian, Rice branded a liar, Washington 27 January 2005). However, he wrote his story in such a lopsided way that readers were meant to draw the conclusion that Condoleezza Rice is indeed a liar.
To do this Eccleston himself had to lie both by omission and commission. Of course, the Bush-hating Eccleston being Eccleston found it an easy task to slime Rice. And what did this leftwing journalist use as evidence to support his outrageous insinuation? Why leftwing Democrats. (This is what his paper has the gall to call balanced journalism).
"I don't like impugning anyone's integrity, but I really don't like being lied to," he said. "Repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally," asserted the self-righteous Mark Dayton. But this coward, the same one who fled Washington when he thought there would be a terrorist attack, is the one that is lying.
Having quoted one liar, Eccleston then went on to quote another — Senator Kennedy. According to the hero of Chappaquiddick "Dr Rice was a key member of the national security team that developed and justified the rationale for war — and it's been a catastrophic failure, a continuing quagmire …" (How lefty journalists love the word “quagmire”).
But surely ‘Scoop’ Eccleston must know that in 1998 the heroic Senator Kennedy (water sports a speciality) told Tim Russert that America could no longer tolerate Saddam and that “we should rule anything out, even military force. Those sites have to be accessible. They have to be available. They have to be inspected...I support the president's movement of military forces into the region and I think it has to be very, very clear to Saddam Hussein that those sites are going to have to be accessible and available, otherwise there’s — nothing will be ruled out.”
To demonstrate his sincerity Kennedy voted in1998 for the Iraq Liberation Act. This made regime change in Iraq official US policy. The 2002 war resolution received the support of the majority of senate Democrats, including Kerry. These Democrats based their decision on exactly the same information that President Bush was using
The malevolent Kennedy has done everything in his power to deligitimise the Iraq War by accusing President Bush of lying about WMDs. Yet in October 2003 Bill Clinton told Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso that right up until the collapse of Saddam’s regime that he too believed the man had WMDs
Clinton was not alone in his belief. Another extremely prominent Democrat was so concerned with the threat from WMDs that he publicly stated on 27 September 2002:
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
That Democrat, Mr Eccleston, was Teddy Kennedy. Yet, with the help of leftwing media collaborators like Eccleston Kennedy continues to assassinate the reputations of Condoleezza Rice and President Bush, calling them, among other things, “liars” and “false patriots.”
Perhaps ‘Scoop’ would care to tell us why these political paragons didn’t launch similar attacks on Colin Powell even though he too used the same intelligence and concluded, as she did, that Saddam had WMDs?
Curiously enough Eccleston also neglected to mention that Senator Byrd was one of Kennedy’s attack dogs. Could this be because Eccleston knows that the Senator was a former Klansman who still hasn’t jettisoned all of his racist views? Imagine Eccleston’s response if Byrd were a Republican and Rice a Democrat?
Another attack dog ignored by Eccleston was Senator Barbara Boxer, a woman as outlandish as her party’s lunatic fringe. Perhaps Eccleston didn’t want to draw attention to the odious fact that Boxer used her repulsive attacks on a Republican black woman to raise campaign funds.
Not all Democrats wanted to lynch Rice. Lieberman, one of the best out of a rotten bunch, gave a passionate speech urging his colleagues to confirm Condi Rice. Eventually the majority voted for nomination. Nevertheless, some black leaders were deeply offended by the behaviour of Kennedy, Boxer, Byrd, etc.
Let’s be reasonable her, folks: you can’t really expect Eccleston to report all the relevant facts. After all, he is an honorary member of the Democratic Party and the last thing he wants to do is harm it.
Our nasty little piece of work — Eccleston, not Kennedy — finished his hit job with the suggestion that Bush had fired Larry Lindsey because he estimated that the war might cost as much as $US200 billion. (The estimate for the war that was being bandied around was $US2 trillion and not Eccleston’s $US200 billion).
The facts surrounding Lindsey’s forced resignation are very different from what Eccleston would have us believe.
On Friday 6December 2002 Bush-hating Slate accused him of firing Lindsey because of “the failing economy.” Mike Allen and Jonathan Weisman wrote that “President Bush forced out his Treasury secretary and another top economic adviser on Friday, an abrupt move that reflects heightened White House anxiety over the ailing economy (Washington Post, 7 December 2002). Bush Ousts O'Neill, Lindsey Over Economy, Jeannine Aversa, Associated Press, 7 December 2002.
In simple English, so simple that even Eccleston can understand it, Lindsey was fired because of incompetence.
What can one say, other than Eccleston has once again revealed himself as a political bigot and a malicious liar.
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Monday 31 January 2005