PAPERS REACH IRAQ BOILING POINT?

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From Editor & Publisher, the major trade industry magazine of the publishing industry, comes this gem. This is fantastic news!

PAPERS REACH IRAQ BOILING POINT?

Editor & Publisher (6/8/05) -- Widely scattered newspaper editorialists have roused themselves from apparent acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice, for the first time in many cases, outright condemnation of the war.

Suddenly there seems to be something in the air -- the smell of death? Or something in the water -- blood? In any case, this past week, widely scattered newspaper editorialists roused themselves from seeming acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice, for the first time in many cases, outright condemnation of the war.

While still refusing to use the "W" word in offering advice to Dubya -- that is, "withdrawal" -- some at least are finally using the "L" word, for lies…

But perhaps the most powerful denunciation came from an unlikely source, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. An editorial in that Hearst paper this past Wednesday, just after Memorial Day, really thundered…
"Perhaps all presidents' remarks in military graveyards are by nature self-serving. But few have been so callow as the president's using the deaths of U.S. troops in his unjustified war as justification for its continuance."



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