Editor&Publisher: Four Years Ago: Questions We Raised About Coming Iraq War

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Four Years Ago: Questions We Raised About Coming Iraq War
By E&P Staff
Published: March 08, 2007

NEW YORK Exactly four years ago, E&P carried the following article by Ari Berman, then an intern here, following President Bush's final major press conference before he launched the invasion of Iraq.

Reporters, in the main, had directed softball or, at the least, less than combative questions at the president. We titled the story, "13 Questions We Wish They'd Asked." Here are some of them.

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-- You say one major reason for taking this action is to protect Americans from terrorism. How do you respond to the warnings of CIA Director George Tenet and others that invading Iraq would in fact likely increase terrorism?

-- Rather than make us wait for a supplemental budget request -- after the war has been launched -- to tell us what it, and its aftermath, will cost, don't you think the American people (who will pay the bill) deserve to know the latest long-term estimates before the fact?

-- Why is the U.S. threatening a non-U.N.-backed war if 59% of Americans do not support a U.S. invasion without the approval of the U.N. Security Council, according to a Feb. 24-26 CNN/Gallup Poll?

-- Why, if North Korea has the capability to produce six nuclear warheads by mid-summer, are you letting their very reluctant neighbors take the lead in deterring them (as you announced tonight) while demanding that the U.S. take charge in confronting Saddam?

-- You praise the Iraqi people, say we have no quarrel with them, pledge to save them from the dictator and give them democracy. Would you tell us how many of them are likely to die in even the best invastion scenario?...

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[jtrockville]

1. After all these years.... still no one asks (nt)

[Hissyspit]

2. .

[Solly Mack]

3. What does it gain America to continue to pretend Bush didn't lie?

And that his lies weren't criminal?

That there were NO mistakes and NO blunders and NO "bad intel" - just a lot of lies.

Why is the lie continually pushed that "everyone believed it"? - that "no one questioned it"?

Lies to protect lies.

Keep on lying and the people keep on dying.