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2006-03-28 Home Front: Politix

NYT pooh-poohs layman's efforts on Iraqi documents

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-28 01:14|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is the same NYT that did such a bang-up job informing us of Stalin's terror.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-28 07:39|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-28 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Noo... Saddam had no unconventional weapons...

Then what did he gas the Kurds with?

And what beginning with V and ending with X did the UN arms inspectors say they found once years ago before they were expelled by Saddam (thus breaching the terms of the Ceasefire of Gulf War 1 and providing a window for the US to declare war perfectly legitimately)

Posted by anon1 2006-03-28 07:55|| 2006-03-28 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Technically, the US didn't need to issue a new declaration of war. Saddam's action invalidated the ceasefire he agreed to, thus rendering the state of war once again in to effect.

Posted by Flomort Glereter9048 2006-03-28 08:19|| 2006-03-28 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 its correct that there has already been cherry picking by both sides. But those tidbits can then be analyzed and put in context. Im skeptical of all the first reports, but I think over the long run this enterprise will be very informative.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-03-28 09:54|| 2006-03-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Iraqi Papers? We're not interested sayeth the NYT. But if you got some Pentagon Papers, well that's a different story.

Posted by Mark Z 2006-03-28 10:31|| 2006-03-28 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6
eh, give the Times a coupl'a days and they'll have made some kind of correction to the story.

Bring back Jayson Blair!!

Posted by macofromoc 2006-03-28 11:08|| 2006-03-28 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 re:Iraqi documents

NYSlimes and the APiss channeling the old Soviet News Organs.

Posted by RD 2006-03-28 12:18|| 2006-03-28 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 NY Slimes=Traitor land. Nuff said.

Posted by Hupush Ebbotch7005 2006-03-28 12:24|| 2006-03-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 "NYT pooh-poohs layman's efforts on Iraqi documents"

Then the "layman's efforts" must be doing a damn fine job to have the NYT running scared like this.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-28 14:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-03-28 14:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Anything with John Prados name on it in terms of political context can and should be taken with a large grain of salt.

He has been on an anti-secrecy/CIA tear in all his writings. Prados (whom I know from back when he was a wargame designer) begins with the premise that the CIA/Intel is always up to no good, and that secrecy is bad. On top of that he appears to be a victim of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

From there its pretty easy to see why his opinion is questionable - he's borderline tinfoil hat in his conspiracy assumptions of the motives of others.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-03-28 16:04|| 2006-03-28 16:04|| Front Page Top

#11 ... an anti-secrecy/CIA tear in all his writings.
... begins with the premise that the CIA/Intel is always up to no good, and that secrecy is bad.
... Bush Derangement Syndrome.
... borderline tinfoil hat in his conspiracy assumptions of the motives of others.

Sounds like great bullet points on a resume for a NYT columnist.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-03-28 17:11|| 2006-03-28 17:11|| Front Page Top

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