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Seven Years Ago Today, the NYT Was Publishing False Articles About Saddam’s WMD

March 16, 2010 at 3:02 PM Leave a comment

Seven years ago today, on the eve of the Iraq war, the New York Times was publishing articles, based on lies fed to it by the Bush administration, about the extent of Saddam Hussein’s alleged WMD program.  Here’s an example (the caps are in the original):  THREATS AND RESPONSES — THE BIOTERROR THREAT — Iraq links Germs for Weapons to U.S. and France:

Iraq has identified a Virginia-based biological supply house and a French scientific institute as the sources of all the foreign germ samples that it used to create the biological weapons that are still believed to be in Iraq’s arsenal, according to American officials and foreign diplomats who have reviewed Iraq’s latest weapons declaration to the United Nations.

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A copy of the pages of the Iraqi declaration dealing with biological weapons was provided to The New York Times, and it reveals the full variety of germs that Iraq says it obtained from abroad for its biological weapons program.

Judith Miller, the worst offender at the Times, was essentially a stenographer for the Bushies in terms of writing about their lies, and she is now, appropriately enough, at Fox “News.”

Countless thousands of lives and billions of dollars later, we’re still there.  What a tragedy.

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