WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE? OOPS, NEVER MIND, NO BLOWJOBS INVOLVED

Fair.org points out that the media have been very, very good little boys and girls, keeping quiet and sitting politely with their hands folded in their laps over Gen. Wesley Clark's amazing statement on last week's Meet the Press: That Bush administration officials called him on Sept. 11, 2001 - the day of the World Trade Center attacks - and urged him to connect them to Saddam Hussein despite having no evidence. Clark declined.

The American Corporate Media, so well-trained, sat quietly. As they almost always do. A rare exception:

Clark's assertion corroborates a little-noted CBS Evening News story that aired on September 4, 2002. As correspondent David Martin reported: "Barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, the secretary of defense was telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks." According to CBS, a Pentagon aide's notes from that day quote Rumsfeld asking for the "best info fast" to "judge whether good enough to hit SH at the same time, not only UBL." (The initials SH and UBL stand for Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.) The notes then quote Rumsfeld as demanding, ominously, that the administration's response "go massive...sweep it all up, things related and not."

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