Remember this? "Hey, did you see that article about the Iraq WMD's in the NYT?"

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.leadingtowar.com/items_note.php

<snip>This intensive rollout of the administration’s aggressive case for war began on September 8, 2002, when five senior Bush administration officials – Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and Myers – appeared on Sunday morning talk shows on the five major news outlets: CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. This was just three days before the first anniversary of 9/11, and two months before the congressional mid-term elections (the Bush administration was actively trying to retain and win Republican seats… They succeeded).

Not coincidentally, on the same morning of September 8, the New York Times reported that Iraq had sought to purchase aluminum tubes for alleged use in enriching uranium to build a nuclear weapon (it is now known that this allegation was false). The article cited anonymous “Bush administration officials” who had leaked the story to journalists Judith Miller and Michael Gordon.

Bush officials then had the audacity to cite on television the information from that New York Times article – which the administration itself had leaked – thereby giving them the opportunity to discuss intelligence that would otherwise be classified.

The five Bush officials also used this television opportunity to outline many other justifications for a preemptive war, displaying a notable coordination in their talking points:

• Hussein’s possession of WMD
• Iraqi contacts to lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta
• Iraq’s ties to al-Qaeda
• Iraq was 6 months away from having a nuclear weapon

All of these allegations were false, and were based on little or no credible evidence.

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You would think that the NYT would have smelled something rotten in Denmark when this happened and begin to take a closer look at their own reporting. Wouldn't you?

[PassingFair]

1. Ask Judith Miller.

I think she was around at the time.

Or maybe David Kelly might know something?

:shrug:

[peace frog]

2. Indeed he might

but he isn't around now.

[Lint Head]

3. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Condi Rice made 9/11 worse. They made this tragic event

even worse with their lies and deceptions, not to mention the murders, torture and subversion of the Constitution. This tragedy could have been a turning point for this country but these criminals all simultaneously pissed in the country's punch bowl.

These damn liars are un-American and should be prosecuted and exiled, not held up as anyone doing anything positive for the US.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Yea, Bush would never send his clowns out to lie to us into war

Nah, he would never do that. He is a good ole boy.

Don

[SpiralHawk]

5. Wow

The Republicons really set things up ...

you got to give them credit for occultism and planning and shit.

[NNN0LHI]

6. I remember the morning this occurred like it was yesterday

I though for sure the next day the higher ups at the NYT would come out saying they think they might have a problem with some of their reporting.

But they didn't which indicated to me this fabrication went up much further into the NYT staff than just Judith Miller.

Don

[SpiralHawk]

7. I never knew about this NNN0LHI

But considering all that we Americans have learned about massive Republicon malfeasance, I'm not at all surprised.