Cheney goes green - recycles garbage

By Libby

The Blotter raises the alarm. Their headline screams - Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban. Big news. Well, except that it isn't exactly new news. It's really old news and my man Cernig debunked it a long time ago. As he reminds us:

Recall, this is the evidence Newsweek says Cheney's faction is unusually interested in and has already been hawked by reliable shill Robin Wright in the WaPo.

[T]he Afghans and the Brits don't believe the spin - and the US is as much a part of the Coalition and of NATO as anyone. It would be truthful to describe any report or official from the White House as being from a NATO source or Coalition official - it just wouldn't be telling the whole truth. The only people publicly giving any credence to this warmongering hype are Bush hardliners - no-one from any other NATO or Coalition country is speaking up. That's significant, to my mind. It indicates double-speak and war shills, plain and simple.

My guess is both the leaked document and the anonymous senior coalition official" came from the crazy wing of the White House i.e. Cheney's office.

That would be my guess as well. What with overhyped arrests of lame-brained street people with inoperational "terrorist plots" to this kind of twisting of old propaganda that failed to incite the public into panic the first time, The White House is working overtime to gin up the public fear to its post-9/11 levels. How they pine for those glory days when any lie would be swallowed whole without a coherent thought on its toxicity.

Somebody should tell them that no matter how long you age garbage intelligence - it still stinks and the people are no longer willing to eat up their swill.

Meanwhile, Gun Toting Liberal breaks the real story of the day. Iranian arms shipments inside the US.