June 7, 2008

“We needed to know the truth about Iraq. The truth could have spared that country from rack and ruin, saved thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives and freed hundreds of billions of dollars for investment in the American economy and infrastructure.

“But as Knight Ridder reporters told us at the time – one of the few organizations that systematically and independently set out to challenge the claims of the (Bush) administration, as my colleagues and I reported in our documentary on PBS Buying the War, as Scott McClellan has now confessed, and as the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed just this week – the administration, with the complicity of the dominant media, conducted a political propaganda campaign using erroneous and misleading intelligence to deceive Americans into supporting an unprovoked war on another country, leading to a conflict that instead of being over quickly and bloodlessly as predicted, continues to this day into its sixth year.

“We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.”
– Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform, June 7, 2008