MSNBC's Culhane left out fact of later speech in reporting White House claim about "Mission Accomplished"
Patty Culhane reported the White House's claim that in President Bush's speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Bush "never said the words 'mission accomplished.' " However, slightly more than a month later, Bush told U.S. troops in Qatar that "America sent you on a mission to remove a grave threat and to liberate an oppressed people, and that mission has been accomplished." Read more
Matthews suggested Bush merely "went along" with the ideologues in attacking Iraq
During a discussion of former CIA director George Tenet's newly released book on the April 30 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews stated: "I wish somebody would write a book and tell me when President Bush, who's not an ideologue, why he went along with this war, with the neocons, with Tenet, with all the rest of them. I've never heard that really good account." But contrary to Matthews' suggestion that Bush simply "went along" with the neoconservatives' push to invade Iraq, reporter Daniel Eisenberg wrote in a May 5, 2002, Time magazine article: "From the moment he took office, Bush has made noises about finishing the job his father started. Sept. 11 may have diverted his attention, but Iraq has never been far from his mind." Read more
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