February 9, 2004

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'Now they tell us'
Duh. Thanks, guys, but 'better late than never' doesn't work too well when thousands of people have been killed.

'As journalists rush to chronicle the administration's failings on Iraq, they should pay some attention to their own.'

'[W]here were you all before the war? Why didn't we learn more about these deceptions and concealments in the months when the administration was pressing its case for regime change - when, in short, it might have made a difference? Some maintain that the many analysts who've spoken out since the end of the war were mute before it. But that's not true. Beginning in the summer of 2002, the "intelligence community" was rent by bitter disputes over how Bush officials were using the data on Iraq. Many journalists knew about this, yet few chose to write about it.

'Even now, papers like the Times and the Post seem loath to give prominent play to stories that make the administration look too bad.'

Where were you while anonymous bloggers had this story blazing from every page last year?
Where were you? On your hands and knees in front of the Oval Office? Are you still taking dictation from Karl Rove, or will you finally stop calling Bush a 'popular wartime president' and call him what he really is: a lying, self-serving nincompoop who callously sacrificed thousands of lives in order to stay in power?
Idiots.


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