Re: FINALLY!!! The NYT grows a big pair

In article <dldfjn0s70@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Joe S. <anon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>At last -- the serious media is growing balls enough to take on the New
>Haven Liar.
>

The editor of USA Today was nonchalantly calling Dubya a liar quite a
while ago.


>NYT editorial calls Bush a liar.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/opinion/15tue1.html?hp
>
>
>QUOTE
>
>Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials
>Published: November 15, 2005
>To avoid having to account for his administration's misleading statements
>before the war with Iraq, President Bush has tried denial, saying he did not
>skew the intelligence. He's tried to share the blame, claiming that Congress
>had the same intelligence he had, as well as President Bill Clinton. He's
>tried to pass the buck and blame the C.I.A. Lately, he's gone on the attack,
>accusing Democrats in Congress of aiding the terrorists.
>
>Yesterday in Alaska, Mr. Bush trotted out the same tedious deflection on
>Iraq that he usually attempts when his back is against the wall: he claims
>that questioning his actions three years ago is a betrayal of the troops in
>battle today.
>
>It all amounts to one energetic effort at avoidance. But like the W.M.D.
>reports that started the whole thing, the only problem is that none of it
>has been true.
>
>.
>
>Mr. Bush says everyone had the same intelligence he had - Mr. Clinton and
>his advisers, foreign governments, and members of Congress - and that all of
>them reached the same conclusions. The only part that is true is that Mr.
>Bush was working off the same intelligence Mr. Clinton had. But that is
>scary, not reassuring. The reports about Saddam Hussein's weapons were old,
>some more than 10 years old. Nothing was fresher than about five years,
>except reports that later proved to be fanciful.
>
>Foreign intelligence services did not have full access to American
>intelligence. But some had dissenting opinions that were ignored or not
>shown to top American officials. Congress had nothing close to the
>president's access to intelligence. The National Intelligence Estimate
>presented to Congress a few days before the vote on war was sanitized to
>remove dissent and make conjecture seem like fact.
>
>It's hard to imagine what Mr. Bush means when he says everyone reached the
>same conclusion. There was indeed a widespread belief that Iraq had chemical
>and biological weapons. But Mr. Clinton looked at the data and concluded
>that inspections and pressure were working - a view we now know was
>accurate. France, Russia and Germany said war was not justified. Even
>Britain admitted later that there had been no new evidence about Iraq, just
>new politics.
>
>The administration had little company in saying that Iraq was actively
>trying to build a nuclear weapon. The evidence for this claim was a dubious
>report about an attempt in 1999 to buy uranium from Niger, later shown to be
>false, and the infamous aluminum tubes story. That was dismissed at the time
>by analysts with real expertise.
>
>The Bush administration was also alone in making the absurd claim that Iraq
>was in league with Al Qaeda and somehow connected to the 9/11 terrorist
>attacks. That was based on two false tales. One was the supposed trip to
>Prague by Mohamed Atta, a report that was disputed before the war and came
>from an unreliable drunk. The other was that Iraq trained Qaeda members in
>the use of chemical and biological weapons. Before the war, the Defense
>Intelligence Agency concluded that this was a deliberate fabrication by an
>informer.
>
>Mr. Bush has said in recent days that the first phase of the Senate
>Intelligence Committee's investigation on Iraq found no evidence of
>political pressure to change the intelligence. That is true only in the very
>narrow way the Republicans on the committee insisted on defining pressure:
>as direct pressure from senior officials to change intelligence. Instead,
>the Bush administration made what it wanted to hear crystal clear and kept
>sending reports back to be redone until it got those answers.
>
>Richard Kerr, a former deputy director of central intelligence, said in 2003
>that there was "significant pressure on the intelligence community to find
>evidence that supported a connection" between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The C.I.A.
>ombudsman told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the administration's
>"hammering" on Iraq intelligence was harder than he had seen in his 32 years
>at the agency.
>
>Mr. Bush and other administration officials say they faithfully reported
>what they had read. But Vice President Dick Cheney presented the Prague
>meeting as a fact when even the most supportive analysts considered it
>highly dubious. The administration has still not acknowledged that tales of
>Iraq coaching Al Qaeda on chemical warfare were considered false, even at
>the time they were circulated.
>
>Mr. Cheney was not alone. Remember Condoleezza Rice's infamous "mushroom
>cloud" comment? And Secretary of State Colin Powell in January 2003, when
>the rich and powerful met in Davos, Switzerland, and he said, "Why is Iraq
>still trying to procure uranium and the special equipment needed to
>transform it into material for nuclear weapons?" Mr. Powell ought to have
>known the report on "special equipment"' - the aluminum tubes - was false.
>And the uranium story was four years old.
>
>.
>
>The president and his top advisers may very well have sincerely believed
>that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But they did not allow the
>American people, or even Congress, to have the information necessary to make
>reasoned judgments of their own. It's obvious that the Bush administration
>misled Americans about Mr. Hussein's weapons and his terrorist connections.
>We need to know how that happened and why.
>
>Mr. Bush said last Friday that he welcomed debate, even in a time of war,
>but that "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war
>began." We agree, but it is Mr. Bush and his team who are rewriting history.
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>END QUOTE
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