Conservative Press Release Factory: "Brownback Condemns Attack on South Korea" @ WIBW - TV 13

Naked self-exposure is always fun to watch! Click the link above for unexpurgated conservative war propaganda. Also for a more balanced, and accurate refutation of nearly everything U. S. Senator Sam Brownback and now Governor - elect of Kansas made in the statement linked above, check out what Consortium News Editor Robert Parry wrote of the same incident, "On Korea, Here We Go Again."

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... In both cases, contrary claims from the "enemy side" were discounted and mocked as U.S. journalists puffed out their chests and waved the flag.

Today's Korean crisis over an exchange of artillery fire between North Korea and South Korea is similar. Though the evidence is that South Korea fired first, you wouldn’t know that if you’ve been watching most U.S. news shows and reading the major newspapers, which have laid the blame squarely at the doorstep of North Korea.

To get an inkling of the actual chronology, you'd have to read between the lines or carefully examine a graphic published in the New York Times. Along with a map of the conflict zone, the Times included this notation: “South Korea had been firing test shots from Baengnyeong Island, according to a South Korean official.”

But you wouldn’t find much about that fact in the accompanying news articles. ...

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