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    42 Words Of Spin That Could Work Wonders For Bush

By Darryl Mason

The American mainstream media can learn a lesson or two in how to whitewash the war crimes of President George W. Bush from Rupert Murdoch’s Australian media.

This is how Murdoch’s key foreign policy commentator summed up the Iraq War Thing today in a long and glowing tribute to now former prime minister, and key Bush ‘War on Terror’ ally, John Howard in his national newspaper, The Australian :

    Howard made the right call on the information available, and it took incredible guts to do it. There were certainly no lies involved - every responsible authority was convinced Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction - and Howard will be vindicated by history.

42 words, a couple of big statements, don’t worry about the crap factor, and that’s it. Don’t try and argue the case. That gets messy.

Look how easy the exact same whitewashing pitch can be slathered over President Bush’s Iraq War legacy :

    Bush made the right call on the information available, and it took incredible guts to do it. There were certainly no lies involved - every responsible authority was convinced Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction - and Bush will be vindicated by history.

Like Bush, John Howard’s lies before and during the Iraq War have been stunning and numerous, but it is essential for his media supporters and shameless hacks to keep saying “he never lied, never, never, never” as often as possible, just in case it aids people in being able to look at these war criminals without thinking of Iraqi children with their arms and legs blown off and the ragged stumps pissing blood.

The 42 words come courtesy of Murdoch’s chief foreign policy commentator in Australia, Greg Sheridan, who you might remember for his fabulous and completely uncritical work in helping Dick Cheney get his message out on why the US must go to War On Iran, during his tour of Australia in February.

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