Anigav6969

I highly disagree....but I still watch it...along with all the other stations

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Up and down the line liberal media was screaming for Bush's head or anyone's head in the administration (still are) and quite frankly I'm sick of it. Liberals act as though it was one person and one person only, In the House, 215 Republicans voted Yes, 6 No and 2 Present; 81 Democrats voted Yes, 126 No (61% of the delegation) and 1 Present; the sole Independent voted No. The final vote was 296 Yes (69% of the House), 133 No, and 3 Present.

That is a far greater number of democrats than republicans who voted for ObamaCare

In the Senate, 28 Democrats voted Yes (56% of the delegation, including Senators Clinton, Kerry, Edwards, Biden, Bayh, and Daschle) and 22 voted No; 49 Republicans voted Yes and one voted No (Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island). Note that the Democrats controlled the Senate and could have postponed a vote on the Resolution until after the November election.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Seriously? Blow what whistle? What 'Real' reason? Revenge war for oil or something?

Let me get this right. Bush was the only person on the planet smart enough to figure out Saddam was hiding his lack of WMD's? The UN was fooled, Russia was fooled, The Euro-Countries were fooled, Bill and Hill were fooled, Kerry and Biden were fooled (OK, Biden doesn't prove much..), Ted Kennedy was fooled, Rockefeller was fooled. A whole pile of Democrats and Republicans were fooled... But Bush knew all along that Saddam had no WMD's... Really?

As for Tenet, his job was not to omnipotent. His job was to do his best. I would have held his Freedom medal along with most that have been tossed into the crowd since then, but I'd give it to him before Oprah.

And yes, I think they give out medals like souvenir ash trays now and it cheapens them.

As for the war, given the information at the time, it was the right call. And given the fact that the Democrats fell all over themselves to vote for it, It was (unlike many current acts) bi-partisan.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Also let us not forget this isn't the only war. We have one in Afghanistan. This is the war that Obama trotted around telling everyone how important it was. Well, Obama has already scheduled the Afghanistan surrender.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Name you 'less biased' TV news sources please.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Wouldn't this make Bush the smartest person on this planet? Bush was as clueless as the rest, bad intel will do it every time.

Anigav6969

For me CNN is not as biased...obviously MSNBC is for the democrats....FOX for the republicans

Glaucon

We almost always choose the news source that is biased in as nearly the same way that we are biased. It is one manifestation of the confirmation bias. If it is "fair" it means you shear its biases. It is not that its not 100% unbiased, It is and always will be 100% biased.

Glaucon

An unbiased news source is one that agrees with our biases. A biased one is one that has different biases than we do. That simple.

Glaucon

This is a democracy, start a "news" source that is biased in the way you want it to be. There is no such thing as an unbiased source. It is only unbiased when it has the same biases as you do and it is only biased when it doesn't. Reality is a bitch.

Glaucon

The following quote seems to sum up what you are expressing:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we have been bamboozled enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we have been taken. once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan

Glaucon

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we have been bamboozled enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we have been taken. once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Carl Sagan

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

CNN skips over too many stories or delays the stories. I read headlines for AP, UPI, Reuters and then Bloomburg News and then compare with FOX NEWS. Every programs complained about here is NOT news, it's commentary.

Nickolai

I never bought into the false hood for a moment. It made no sense that Saddamm had hundered of tones of Chemical biological and nuclear weapons and a means to deliver them . It was apparent to me and should have to anyone with halfa brain that Saddamm was a toothles old tiger that could barely hold Iraq together let alone be a threat to his neighbors or any body else. His forces had been decimated in the Gulf War only to have to put down a shite uprising in the south immediately afterward. Clinton had bombed Iraq for years and shot down anything that dared enter the no fly zones. The economic embargo had a disastrous effect on the Iraqi health care system with over 500,000 children dying from mal nutrition. Watching Bush Cheney closely it was obvious they were cherry picking intelligence and selling it on Sunday talk shows to drum up support. I could see it because I remembered the woman that appeared before a Senate committee crying and gasping that Sadamm's men came into the hospital and threw all the babies on the floor. Obviously to demonize Saddamm to the American people and make a better case for war.
She gave only one name but it was revealed that she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US. It was classic war time propaganda.
It should have been obvious to people like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden and other folks of ordinary intelligence that what Dick Bush Cheney put Collin Powell up too at the United Nations was pure propaganda. I never believed any of it for a moment. The American people have tricked into going to war too many times throughout our history that it's made me highly skeptical of such efforts

The Dutchman

Why is CNN one of the lowest rated sites out there?