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2004-06-19 Home Front: WoT

New Republic Magazine Recants Its Support for Iraq War

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-19 10:53:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I meant to put this on page 1.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-19 10:54:36 AM|| 2004-06-19 10:54:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Fred, I suggest that your Preview page indicate the page where the article will be posted.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-19 10:58:04 AM|| 2004-06-19 10:58:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hugh Hewitt ripped them a new one yesterday over the same column

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-19 11:00:15 AM|| 2004-06-19 11:00:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, ferchrissakes, is there anything the Left won't do to trash Bush and bolster Kerry?

What a bunch of leftist clueless losers (but I repeat myself).

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-19 11:07:37 AM|| 2004-06-19 11:07:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 editor is a pussy.

Posted by B 2004-06-19 1:08:27 PM|| 2004-06-19 1:08:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 If the administration had been less duplicitous, we and others might have recognized that Saddam didnât have nuclear weapons.

Beinart must be a class-1 moron, since no one ever said Saddam had nuclear weapons. The only "lies" being told are coming from the left.

Oh, but I forgot -- The New Republic is a lefty mag. Naturally they have to buy into all the lies.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-19 2:50:57 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-06-19 2:50:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 B - don't insult cats like that! My pussycat would tear that wuss apart. :-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-19 3:05:39 PM|| 2004-06-19 3:05:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Now the left-leaning weekly has admitted that it was wrong to have backed the war based on the administrationâs claims that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction.

Yawn. How about the idea of draining the Middle Eastern swamp?

Executive Editor Fred Barnes, who visited Iraq in March, says he "came back more pessimistic than when I left. Winning the war was one thing, but winning a peaceful and democratic Iraq is a lot harder than we thought."

Nobody said is was going to be easy. Something to remember though, is that "harder" != "impossible".

Beinart still believes that things may turn out all right in Iraq. But, he concedes, "we may have to go back and do another editorial a year from now."

Peretz says it best: "There were some things we were mistaken about, like believing there were WMDs, but my piece lays out an argument for the war independent of that mistake. These apologies are silly."

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-19 4:37:53 PM|| 2004-06-19 4:37:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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