Saturday, February 07, 2004

Rummy: Press Coverage of War "...absolutely shocking."

I agree with Rumsfeld about the righteousness of the US cause, and about the way the press chose to cover it. I'll say what he didn't: if a Democrat was in the WH, the press would have supported the war in a big way.
Yahoo! News - Rumsfeld makes emotional defense of war on Iraq: "Rumsfeld acknowledged an assertion that the US image in the world had been hurt but blamed it on media coverage, which he called 'shocking, absolutely shocking.'
'To think what was going on in Iraq a year ago with people being tortured, rape rooms, mass graves, gross corruption, a country that had used chemical weapons on its own people, used them on their neighbors, defiant to the United Nations (news - web sites) through 17 security council resolutions,' he said.
'And look at the way it was treated in the press. There were prominent people who represent countries in this room who opined that they didn't think it made a hell of a lot of difference who won,' he said"