Originally published November 9 2004
With the election over, let the Fallujah bloodbath begin!
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
It's not even a secret: the Fallujah invasion was delayed until the election was over. Why? To avoid more news of U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq. The last thing the Bush Administration wanted people to remember on voting day was that people -- real, living breathing people -- were actually being killed in this war. And that's not to mention the Iraqis being killed. The U.S. media has a near-total blackout on Iraqi casualties.
With the Fallujah offensive delayed until the election, what did the American public get to see in the last days before the vote? The Osama Bin Laden tape, of course! What better way to remind Americans they should be afraid, very afraid, unless they re-elect Bush.
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Almost a month ago, Media Matters for America noted the media's near-total silence regarding an October 11 Los Angeles Times revelation that the Bush administration planned to delay major assaults on insurgent strongholds in Iraq until after the November 2 U.S. presidential election.
- As MMFA noted at the time, no network TV news program mentioned the Times article.
- On November 8, the top story on each of the major TV networks' morning shows was the U.S.-led forces' assault on Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah.
- ABC's Good Morning America and CBS's Early Show did not address the possible political timing of the assault; only NBC Today co-anchor Matt Lauer, in an interview with Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), raised the issue.
- It comes a week after elections, and critics are saying that U.S. officials didn't want to run the risk of more soldiers dying, more images of wounded and killed soldiers, from the battlefield in Iraq prior to those elections.
- What we tried to do with Prime Minister [Ayad] Allawi is to negotiate a political settlement like we did in the south with [cleric Muqtada] al-Sadr.
- LAUER: You know, a lot of people are worried that because the buildup of this assault, Senator, took so long and it was talked about so often over the last several months, many of these insurgents have now fanned out and are in other cities and towns waiting to fight another day.
- GRAHAM: Well, it is a real fear.
- I mean, the bottom line is when you see forces congregate and start to organize, you shouldn't let that happen.
- Politically, we have given a lot of authority to Prime Minister Allawi to avoid this day, but we were unsuccessful.
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