by James Glaser
January 15, 2004

I now have to go to the foreign press to find out what is really happening in this world and that makes me sick, The American media is playing games with us and only telling us part of the story and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Libya's Col. Khadaffy, and George Bush are a prime example of what I am talking about.

In an article published in the Toronto Star by Eric Margolis we get, The Rest of the Story. Margolis is an American Army veteran, is also a member of the American Legion and writes for a paper in a country that is best friends with us. He is not anti-American or of some strange political party.

A couple of weeks ago, George Bush and Tony Blair announced to the world that their attack on Iraq was paying dividends with Libya deciding to get rid of its WMDs. They claimed that after eight months of secret negotiations, Col.Khadaffy had decided to give up his arsenal of deadly weapons.

This sounded great and George and Tony scored many points with the public in each of their countries. The trouble is that most of what they said was a lie. Margolis writes, "According to UN inspectors and European intelligence sources, Libya had only small amounts of World War I technology mustard gas, a primitive battlefield weapon."

He goes on to write, "It had no biological or nuclear weapons. Libya had no means of delivering WMD beyond some rusting Scud-B missiles with only a 180 mile range."

Eric Margolis goes on about his time in Libya (Canadian Reporters can go anywhere) "When I was in Libya interviewing Col. Kadaffy, I found there was not a single elevator repairman in the country. Bakers had to be imported from Egypt to make bread. Seventy percent of Libya's military equipment was broken down, tiny, backward Libya, with a population of only five million, had no military capability."

Why couldn't the American media tell us that? Doesn't our media read UN and European Intelligence Reports? Did any of you see an American article that mentioned mustard gas or the fact that Libya has a smaller population than many American cities?

George Bush got to make some hay about nothing again, because he knew that the American media would eat up every word he had to say about a victory over terrorism. George knew they would never check the facts or report the rest of the story.

In today's world American citizens must look to the internet and the foreign press in order to know what is going. American media sources have become a tool for state sponsored propaganda.