Griper News: The Propaganda That Wouldn't Die

It's an example of how the right won't give up their talking points -- even after they've all been shot down. Jeremy Meister has a piece at The Conservative Voice which demonstrates just how much crap you have to swallow in order to buy the right wing line on Iraq.

He starts off griping about lefties being all bent out of shape over Darfur (which he spells 'Dafar'), get's a few obligatory shots off at Clinton over Mogadishu and Bosnia, then get's right down to spreading untruth. Whether or not he believes this crap himself is an open question (although I have my suspicions), but there's a bunch of bullshit here.

Let's contrast this [Bosnia] with Iraq. The first thing to point out is that there is a declaration of war. "Yeah, but it was built on a lie!" scream liberals. The two reasons that we went to Iraq were WMDs and connections to al Quada.

Oops! There was no declaration of war. In his statement after voting against the Iraq war resolution, Rep. Mark Dayton wrote [emphasis mine]:

I also voted against the Iraq War Resolution, because I believed that such a decision by the Congress at that time was premature. President Bush was not asking Congress for a Declaration of War, as the United States Constitution requires. He was asking for a Congressional Resolution authorizing him to declare war, if he determined it necessary, at some later date. I don’t fault the President for asking for that blank check; I fault the Congress for giving it to him.

Only congress can declare war and they never did so. There was no declaration of war. One down. Back to Meister:

There is evidence that a lot of them [weapons of mass destruction] were moved to Syria before the invasion. Remember the keys to terrorism are hideability and mobility. They're not going to show us what they have.

Weird how the everyone else say's the opposite, isn't it? According to US intelligence, there's no evidence that any WMD were moved anywhere.

MSNBC.com:

...intelligence and congressional officials say they have not seen any information — never "a piece," said one — indicating that WMD or significant amounts of components and equipment were transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria, Jordan or elsewhere.

Undaunted by his variance from fact, Meister rolls on:

Al Quada ties are often the forgotten reason [for the invasion of Iraq]. Iraq did have ties to al Quada. They were supporting them with money. The only world trade center bomber not captured in 1994 fled to Iraq. Czech police monitored a meeting between a member of Al Quada and the Iraqi embassador in a cafe six months before 9-11. The list goes on.

This is what caught my attention. It's jawdropping to see someone make all of these claims in one place, because almost none of it is true. The 9/11 commission found no "collaborative relationship" between al Qaeda and Hussein. I'm guessing that the bomber he's talking about was Abdul Rahman Yasin, who did flee to Iraq -- although probably because he was iraqi. The czech police thing is an old lie Cheney was shopping around; but even he has been forced to admit it's not true, saying, "We had one report early on from another intelligence service that suggested that the lead hijacker, Mohamed Atta, had met with Iraqi intelligence officials in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And that reporting waxed and waned where the degree of confidence in it, and so forth, has been pretty well knocked down now at this stage, that that meeting ever took place."

So who is Jeremy Meister? Looking at this big steaming pile of lies, propaganda, and bullshit, you're forced to conclude that he's either an idiot or he thinks you are. All of this stuff has been disproven for some time -- some as far back as six years ago. At the end of the piece is short bio:

Jeremy Meister graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998 and a Bachelor's degree in Media Production from Missouri State University at Springfield in 2005. He is also a film director, producer and author of over seven feature length screenplays including 'Hollow Dogs' and 'Epic: the Flames of Summer', as well as owning his own film company LWC Productions. Jeremy is the former host and producer of the Conservative internet radio program "The Tzimisce Show". Presently he works for Lotus Broadcasting as well as "The Wise Guys Show"...