the other mike
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With the recent MSM drumming for war with Iran over the downing of an unmanned US drone, it may be a good time to reflect back to an even more ominous incident most Americans propably forgot about.
George H W Bush, at the time Vice President of the United States in the Reagan administration ... "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy."
As the Boston Globe’s defense correspondent at the time, I reported on the Vincennes shoot-down, and I have gone back over my clips, chronicling the official lies and misstatements as they unraveled. Here’s the truly dismaying part of the story. On Aug. 19, 1988, nearly seven weeks after the event, the Pentagon issued a 53-page report on the incident. Though the text didn’t say so directly, it found that nearly all the initial details about the shoot-down—the “facts” that senior officials cited to put all the blame on Iran Air’s pilot—were wrong. And yet the August report still concluded that the captain and all the other Vincennes officers acted properly.
The Time the United States Blew Up a Passenger Plane—and Tried to Cover It Up
George H W Bush, at the time Vice President of the United States in the Reagan administration ... "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy."
As the Boston Globe’s defense correspondent at the time, I reported on the Vincennes shoot-down, and I have gone back over my clips, chronicling the official lies and misstatements as they unraveled. Here’s the truly dismaying part of the story. On Aug. 19, 1988, nearly seven weeks after the event, the Pentagon issued a 53-page report on the incident. Though the text didn’t say so directly, it found that nearly all the initial details about the shoot-down—the “facts” that senior officials cited to put all the blame on Iran Air’s pilot—were wrong. And yet the August report still concluded that the captain and all the other Vincennes officers acted properly.
The Time the United States Blew Up a Passenger Plane—and Tried to Cover It Up
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