Judith Miller is a war criminal.

To the Editor:

As usual, our corrupt complicit corporate media has the recent story about the jailing of the New York Times reporter Judith Miller upside-down, inside-out, backwards or in a word, wrong. Judith Miller is a war criminal. Judith Miller is an accessory before the fact to mass murder and war crimes in Iraq. Judith Miller belongs in jail, along with Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Cheney and Bush and the rest of their vicious gang. In 2002 and 2003, her constant parroting of the Bush regime's lies about the existence of Iraqi WMDs, which were printed in the New York Times as the gospel truth, were a major part of propaganda blitz used to bully and stampede the American people and the Congress into supporting the stupid invasion of Iraq. Judith Miller is now protecting some traitorous criminals in the Bush White House who illegally outed the undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame some two years ago; she is not "protecting her sources."

Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was outed by someone in the Bush White House as retaliation against him for his earlier having revealed the Bush lie about Iraq having purchased some yellow cake uranium ore from Niger, a country in Africa. The Cheney lie was that Saddam had "reconstituted his nuclear program" and thus needed the uranium ore to make nuclear weapons. Ambassador Wilson revealed that the documents that supposedly showed the Iraqi purchase of yellow cake were merely crude forgeries. Ambassador Wilson then blew the whistle on these Bush lies by going public with this information. This was a big step in cracking the facade of all of the Bush lies about Iraq.

The Bush White House then orchestrated the outing of an undercover CIA agent, who incidentally was researching possible WMD threats, in what was an extremely reckless act. This criminal action was meant to intimidate other potential whistle-blowers who might want to reveal other Bush regime crimes.

I guess that all the editorial pontificators prattling on about the supposed "freedom of the press" in America are not referring to the freedom of the corporate media to lie, smear, attack, distort, omit facts and act as cheerleaders in support of the illegitimate Bush regime, its thefts of Presidential elections in 2000 and 2004, its vast corporate corruption, its absurd unbelievable incompetence in managing to not quite be able seal off airliner cockpits in time to stop the nine-eleven terror attacks, its overthrow of the democracy in Haiti by the kidnapping of President Aristide to Africa and his replacement by death squad leaders and its illegal criminal war on the Iraqi people.

The only "free press" newspapers left in 21st century corporate America are a few courageous progressive alternative weekly papers. Otherwise, we are forced to go to the Internets each day to find anything resembling the truth. In this regard, some useful alternative media web sites include: News from occupied Iraq at www.uruknet.info, the LeftCoaster at www.theleftcoaster.com, Nero Fiddled at /nerofiddled.blogspot.com, Common Dreams at www.commondreams.org, Truth Out at www.truthout.org, Tom Paine at www.tompaine.com, Buzz Flash at www.buzzflash.com, Bella Ciao at //bellaciao.org and the Daily Kos at www.dailykos.com.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

7 July 2005

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