Re:A.I. Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way
by dragonwriter on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:07PM
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> But who'd have had the audacity to make such claims back then?
Except for, I think, the specifics of the high level insider, each of those claims was widely made in the major media and/or in the same UNSC meeting in which Powell presented the fake evidence before the war (in the latter case, by UN weapon inspectors), in both cases with fairly extensive receipts; the mobile labs were, for instance, debunked with details including the UK origin, the date of sale, and, IIRC, copies of official UK government documents concerning them in a major article in the Guardian before the war.
There was also detailed reporting on how the UK government knew the US evidence in general false and that the evidence was deliberately being manufactured and a policy narrative.
There were also articles in the major US press, with extensive details, about the lack of support within the US intelligence community for the officiak narrative and the details of how and organizationally by whom within the government the “intelligence” as propaganda operation was being run.
In the wave of bloodthirst and Islamophobia post-9/11, which had barely subsided at all by 2003, no one (effectively, for all the political difference it made) in the US (and not enough people in the UK) cared about the facts, but the official narrative was debunked widely, in near real-time, in the major media.
Except for, I think, the specifics of the high level insider, each of those claims was widely made in the major media and/or in the same UNSC meeting in which Powell presented the fake evidence before the war (in the latter case, by UN weapon inspectors), in both cases with fairly extensive receipts; the mobile labs were, for instance, debunked with details including the UK origin, the date of sale, and, IIRC, copies of official UK government documents concerning them in a major article in the Guardian before the war.
There was also detailed reporting on how the UK government knew the US evidence in general false and that the evidence was deliberately being manufactured and a policy narrative.
There were also articles in the major US press, with extensive details, about the lack of support within the US intelligence community for the officiak narrative and the details of how and organizationally by whom within the government the “intelligence” as propaganda operation was being run.
In the wave of bloodthirst and Islamophobia post-9/11, which had barely subsided at all by 2003, no one (effectively, for all the political difference it made) in the US (and not enough people in the UK) cared about the facts, but the official narrative was debunked widely, in near real-time, in the major media.