| Steve Gilliard critiques the critique.
It's the big thing now for papers to say they were "fooled" by Chalabi, et al. I just don't buy this. Everyone knew that pinhead Bush had decided to go to war and the intelligence was cooked--the papers just weren't anticipating that the Bushies would stop cooking it once we were in Iraq. In other words, no bogus WMDs or fake al Qaeda documents materialized, so the media was stuck admitting they'd falsely sold the war.
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It's the big thing now for papers to say they were "fooled" by Chalabi, et al. I just don't buy this. Everyone knew that pinhead Bush had decided to go to war and the intelligence was cooked--the papers just weren't anticipating that the Bushies would stop cooking it once we were in Iraq. In other words, no bogus WMDs or fake al Qaeda documents materialized, so the media was stuck admitting they'd falsely sold the war.
- tom moody 6-01-2004 10:16 pm