June 7, 2008
“We needed to know the truth about Iraq. The truth could have spared that country from rack and ruin, saved thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives and freed hundreds of billions of dollars for investment in the American economy and infrastructure.
“But as Knight Ridder reporters told us at the time – one of the few organizations that systematically and independently set out to challenge the claims of the (Bush) administration, as my colleagues and I reported in our documentary on PBS Buying the War, as Scott McClellan has now confessed, and as the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed just this week – the administration, with the complicity of the dominant media, conducted a political propaganda campaign using erroneous and misleading intelligence to deceive Americans into supporting an unprovoked war on another country, leading to a conflict that instead of being over quickly and bloodlessly as predicted, continues to this day into its sixth year.
“We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.”
– Bill Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform, June 7, 2008
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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