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Reader Comments (8)Page 1 of 1 pagesThe news leading up to, during and following the invasion of Iraq reads like Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First?” routine.
Like other historical events (Kennedy, King, Kennedy (KKK?) assassinations, Pearl Harbor, etc.) we will probably never know for certain Who? How? What? or When? What we now know is we have a world class tangle to keep the talking heads employed forever.
If “No news is good news.” then with 24/7 news…!
Posted by whattheheck on Oct 21, 2005 at 6:33 PM Salon’s Juan Cole, however, cautions against viewing Miller as a puppet of the neocons. He writes, “In the end, it seems that Miller will go down in history not so much as a true believer as a useful idiot.”
I hate to think of Juan Cole as Salon’s Juan Cole. I recognize your quote and was puzzled by it when I first read it on Juan Cole’s site myself.
Judith Miller’s masquerade as a reporter did not go undetected as the NYTimes. The only reason she’s had such a long run is because she is under the personal protection of the paper’s publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Judith Miller is a neocon.
I noted on another blog that one of Judith Miller’s high shoool classmates was Richard Perle. Coincidence i suppose.
No, it’s more than Judith Miller at fault here.
It was the NYTimes as an institution shilling for the present, neocon American regime.
They will never regain the credibility much less the respect they once enjoyed.
Thanks to the Pinch and Judy Show nearly 2000 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been murdered on behalf of the Oil, War, and Likud lobbies and our nation left in financial ruin.
Posted by John Francis Lee on Oct 22, 2005 at 6:52 AM America is in tatters,all news sources are bought,the politicians are bought,democracy is gone.
Amid electronic voting booths,court appointed president in 2000 ( banana Republic style)
the cost to field a candidate is so high that the cmmon man has no chance to run
I long for the common man
with the common goals,common ideas,and common sense
there has to be a fundamental shift from lobbyists,high priced elections,lies and deceit .Is there a hero left in America that can come forth and save America from the Elite
rich class.
Posted by skullker on Oct 23, 2005 at 1:23 AM Why the amazement? So many of us knew these were lies and tried to tell the world at all the protests and rallies organized by the peace movement. Judith Miller was complicit in the lies of the Bush administration….what else is new?
But even more lies are waiting to be exposed… I wonder if they ever will…
[url=“http://tvnewslies.org/html/where_the_hell_is_your_9_11_pr.html
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Posted by skipper7 on Oct 27, 2005 at 3:13 AM “There is a big problem with this simple narrative. It is that the Times, along with The Post and other news organizations, ran many alarming stories about Iraq’s weapons programs before the election of George W. Bush. A quick search through the Times archives before 2001 produces such headlines as “Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say”(November 1998), “U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production of Chemical Weapons in Sudan”(August 1998), “Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort” (February 2000), “Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration” (February 2000), “Flight Tests Show Iraq Has Resumed a Missile Program” (July 2000). (A somewhat shorter list can be compiled from The Post’s archives, including a September 1998 headline: “Iraqi Work Toward A-Bomb Reported.”) The Times stories were written by Barbara Crossette, Tim Weiner and Steven Lee Myers; Miller shared a byline on one.”
http://tinyurl.com/dlr7t
“Investigators in Yemen yesterday uncovered evidence suggesting the bomb attack on the warship USS Cole had been a meticulously organised conspiracy, which a leading US terrorism expert said may have been the first joint operation between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.”
http://tinyurl.com/8j2o
“Mr Fandy said senior members of the Saudi royal family told him in recent weeks that they had received assurances from the Taleban leader, Mullah Mohamed Omar, that once the radical Islamist movement secured control over Afghan territory, Bin Laden would be forced to leave. “It’s a matter of time now for Osama.” He said Bin Laden would have a strong ideological aversion to accepting Iraqi hospitality, but might have little choice.”
http://tinyurl.com/7rwd
Last but not least, some video from the late 90’s. What is really THAT long ago?:
rtsp://63.66.59.40/mrc/binladen061704.rm
Mr. Bleifuss, along with most of the rest of the “media”, seem to be rather selective in what and when they choose to “investigate”, and what they choose to forget from the all too recent past.
Posted by Natalie on Oct 27, 2005 at 5:52 AM OK, so if was Quaddafi that had the nuclear program and not Saddam! So what? We got the job done anyway. The problem is not the war; it’s the nation-building. No one thought Iraq was ripe for democracy. Which Arab country had a democracy? Where is there a mix of Islam and democracy? This is the big story.
Posted by JasonPappas on Oct 31, 2005 at 6:34 PM The notion that the New York Times conspired to help th Bush Administration with anything belies the crippling paranoia that has poisoned the left’s mindset. One might as well blame Al Jazeera.
Posted by tnugent on Oct 31, 2005 at 9:20 PM Judith Miller was legedary in journalistic circles, for her special operating techniques. Techniques that made her the talk of the News room at the Times, and a legend at the Times. Think Clinton, think change, think cyclical: or is it the aphrodasiac effect of being around so many war criminals?
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