This link has NEW video from F 9/11, that Moore did not put in the film...

http://ifctv.com/ifc/insiderNews?CAT0=5827&NID=9309&CLR=orange&BCLR=FF6600

Great companion piece to OBL "butting goat" reference.

At this link, get a sneak peek at the controversial David O Russell documentary that the studios and the White House didn't want you to see.

http://ifctv.com/ifc/what?CAT0=45&CAT1=6066&TZ=ET&TB=4&CLR=blue&AID=9247

Real Soldiers talking about the real chaos on the ground.  About not having enough supplies or armor or gasmasks and about being ordered to loot private homes and stores.

They also talk about finding $300 Million in hidden cash and just where that money went.

Powerful stuff.

Sundance Channel to Premiere eye-opening doc
With God on Our Side:
George W. Bush and
the Rise of the Religious Right

October 18th @ 7:00pm ET/PT.

Repeat airings:
October 19th @ 1:00pm;
October 24th @ 3:00pm;
October 28th @ 12:30am and 7:00pm

ALSO...

Rumor has it that an even more explosive documentary about the REAL Iraq is on the way to a cable network before election day.

Stay Tuned...
http://boycottsinclair.blogspot.com/

NEW YORK -- The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.

[LA Times, 10/9/04]

When CBS tried to air "The Reagans" on their network, conservatives across the country threatened to boycott CBS advertisers if the movie ran.

When "Nightline" aired the names and information of all US soldiers who have been killed in Iraq, Sinclair pulled "Nightline" off their affiliates for the night.

Now, it's our turn. Airing a blatantly partisan film, as scheduled content, over PUBLIC AIRWAYS is against FCC regulations and FEC election law.

Join the Sinclair Boycott, go to:

Boycott Sinclair

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In 2003 and 2004, The New York Times spent a great deal of time covering the war in Iraq. Their star reporter and expert on the Iraqi intel during that time was Judith Miller.

In the preamble to the war, Miller showed an uncanny ability to be in front of the emerging story - especially in the build up to war and with regard to Iraqi "defectors" and their information on Iraq's weapons programs.

Miller's main source - whom the paper never vetted - was Ahmed Chalabi. Chalabi put Miller in touch with his "defectors" (including the infamous "Curveball"), Miller lapped up their stories and The Times rushed them into print - rarely, if ever, seeking corroborating sources.

Bad mojo.

After the invasion and "Mission Accomplished", it became clear that Chalabi was a liar, his neo-con buddies were easily duped and that the defectors were all frauds. The Times retracted or apologized for their lack of diligence in checking their stories and relying on information from only one source.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html?ex=1096084800&en=524e 4e210be3d2d1&ei=5070&8dpc

The Times' coverage was a key element in selling the war in Iraq, and Miller's access to "Curveball" was a clever ploy by Richard Perle, Scooter Libby and Dick Cheney to enlist the left-leaning New York Times into selling the invasion of Iraq to the American people.

The height of the disaster came in the President's State of the Union speech, where he claimed Iraq had purchased the makings of a nuclear bomb from Niger. Joseph Wilson - the man who investigated that claim for the White House - heard Bush's assertion, and knew it was false. He said so in a scorching editorial in the Times a few days later.

As retribution, someone in the White House or Pentagon leaked to Robert Novak that Wilson's wife was a CIA operative - blowing her cover and breaking the law.

Now, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has subpoenaed Judith Miller to determine if she knows who leaked the information. Miller has said she is willing to go to jail to keep from testifying.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000640336

Judith Miller knows who leaked the information, but that is woefully beside the point. Miller knows, because Chalabi knows. But they know much, much more - and THAT'S the point.

Chalabi is suspected of passing US national security secrets to Iran - information he is rumored to have gotten from a pentagon official and close ally who was "drunk at the time."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/02/chalabi.iran/

After all of her spotty work and loose ethics, Miller invoking journalistic integrity to protect her source is like... (insert your own Dan Rather joke here).

Miller knows more about the way the invasion was sold to America than anyone outside of the Bush administration. She knows how the Niger documents found their way into the President's speech. She knows who in the administration asked Chalabi to find defectors, "no matter what". She knows who in the White House ignored intelligence from the CIA and State Department that showed Chalabi's information was false. And she knows who leaked the story to Novak.

New York Times' readers and all Americans have a right to know more about Miller's interactions with Chalabi and how they affected our presence in Iraq. Miller is the link to Chalabi, and Chalabi is the treasure chest of information about the way we were misled into war. If Fitzgerald can question him, we'll be blogging about a lot more than the Novak leak.

Please, PLEASE write Judith Miller c/o The New York Times and demand the truth - YOUR truth - be told.

letters@nytimes.com
editorial@nytimes.com

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