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New 'Deep Throat' Needed for Iraq, says Nixon Rival

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US media needs a modern-day "Deep Throat" within the administration of President George W. Bush to reveal how America was "misled" on Iraq, former presidential contender George McGovern said.



"We need someone like that who is highly placed to tell us what's really going on. We know that we were misled on Iraq," McGovern told Fox News Radio.

McGovern, a former senator, unsuccessfully ran against Richard Nixon for the White House in 1972.

Deep Throat, revealed this week as former FBI assistant director Mark Felt, acted as a source to The Washington Post newspaper, helping to bring down Nixon's presidency over the Watergate scandal in 1974.

"I wish there were somebody of the Deep Throat time in this administration who are aware of what's going on," McGovern told Fox News Radio.

"This war in Iraq, in my opinion is worse than anything Nixon did. I think Nixon deserved to be expelled from office in view of the cover-up that he carried on and the laws that he violated.

"But we have an administration in power now that led us to a war that is internationally illegal; it's a war that we are fighting with a country that has no threat to us that has nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks.

McGovern said Nixon was undoubtedly "tricky," but said of Bush: "This man claims to be Christian, following the will of God, and then he misleads the whole nation on a totally fraudulent enterprise in Iraq that we should have never been attached to."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqwatergatebush;_ylt=AvOMYyHVKajKqJ3a7wi7HesDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Hater Depot]

There's no shortage of people who worked in this Administration or the war on terror who have leaked important important documents and/or put journalists on the right track. Not to mention the considerable number of those who've publicly gone on record opposing US policy (Richard Clarke, etc.).

[Ya-ta Boy]

I wouldn't say there is 'no shortage' of leakers, but there are a lot. So far, just not one in the right place. Keep your fingers crossed.

[R. S. Refugee]

In today's political climate, reporters in the Woodward and Bernstein roles probably would not receive sufficient support from their corporate masters to pull it off.

But one can dream.

Maybe they would if they worked for Knight-Ridder, one of the few decent news sources of the MSM.

[cbclark4]

Appropriate.

[Adventurer]

[arjuna]

IGTG,

Do you know of http://tinyurl.com/ ?

The url you posted can be made tiny:
http://tinyurl.com/345tz4

But the link is bad to begin with.

[bacasper]

I liked the original version of the movie. I mean, who can compare with Linda Lovelace?

[Czarjorge]

Didn't Richard Clark basically do this years ago?

[cbclark4]

Who's Richard Clark?