Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
--60 Minutes (5/12/96)
Now that Imam Rauf has made the exact same accusation, HE'S the villain.
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Clear Channel/WLW's award-winning Program Director Darryl Parks on his once weekly talk show last Sat. finally admitted & hinted obliquely at the injustice of the U.S. having "destroyed Iraq" on false premises.
However Parks never opposed the war while his talk underlings, local/national Mike McConnell and Bill Cunningham were defending Bush's immoral and deceitful war based on WMD lies from 2003-2008, McConnell repeating Bush/military brass slanted propaganda as fact for a week from Baghdad.
In fact, Parks/WLW sponsored pro-war rallies aplenty during this time period, while their talk hosts censored antiwar callers while lying about every aspect of the war's status.
The only CC host of whom I'm aware who did the right thing and refused to support the war was Roxanne Walker of South Carolina.
Clear Channel fired her and she won a lawsuit against it.
Now WLW/CC broadcasts,while never
taking partial responsibility for the Great Recession, as economist Joeseph Stiglitz has outlined, the result in part of the prolonged three trillion dollar war.
Bill Cunningham continues the Islamophobia pushed by the Israeli lobby and today implied "pro-Moslem" "anti-Israel" Obama should have attacked Iran before allowing it to advance as far as it has with its energy program. So don't expect Willie to lead any anti-war rallies if the US eventually quagmires itself in yet another war.
Ken,
Didn't Clear Channel organize nationwide rallies in support of the Iraq War?
Yes. You might want to interview, if she's agreeable, Roxanne Walker who settled out of court after refusing to go along with the supposedly Lowry Mays-enforced policy. Though she had won SC Broadcaster of the Year award the previous year.
I'm really not sure how diligently Mays had to enforce the edict nationwide, considering the shallow lack of depth and careerism for its own sake of almost all CC talk show hosts.
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