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Considering the utter absurdity of the government's story, I find it hard to imagine any rational person could have ever believed it for a second. Considering H
by joesmo 11y ago
Considering the utter absurdity of the government's story, I find it hard to imagine any rational person could have ever believed it for a second. Considering Hersh's reputation, the criticism against him is unfounded. That raises a lot of questions. Like how to deal with an "ally" who would hide this information from us for years causing our wars to drag on longer and many more people to die. It's a disservice that the media is not covering this, but unsurprising considering the initial coverage and lack of skepticism to the initial literally incredible events they reported when bin Laden was killed in 2011. Stupidity is great, but it's not as great as malice and I find it impossible to believe that the reporters originally reporting the story in 2011 didn't know it was a lie. I also find it impossible to believe anyone is still defending that story now. Instead of real coverage of the issues, however, we just get the media talking about itself like this article. I'm glad articles like this exist, but it's indicative of the self-pleasuring role that media has taken in our society and the duty towards the people it has shirked.
- Rapzid 11y agoI find it hard to believe any rationale person would believe ANYTHING the government has to say. I'm not sure if it has always been this way but now-a-days, and even with as bad as the media is, it's perfectly clear that the government will lie about anything it feels like. It's not just fiction and movies, we KNOW this from recently recorded history. Further, we don't even know if the "whitehouse" is blatantly lying or if they are being lied to by the intelligence organizations because we also know now that they will lie about ANYTHING to other parts of the government including the executive. So any time people start immediately pointing fingers at the POTUS and "whitehouse" I can see what their agenda is. It's so messed up there is no telling where the lies are originating from. Maybe the CIA/NSA should change their missions statement to "provide the truth". Whatever else they are aren't they supposed to be "intelligence" organizations? What good are they if they provide bad information?!