2002: Esteemed professors-Who got it right on Iraqi War-Had to pay to get this AD published in NYT

[kpete]

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I Remember

Imagining Peace


The ad ran opposite this pro-war view which obviously got it very wrong:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/26/opinion/why-iraq-can-t-be-deterred.html

[samsingh]

1. the bushees suppressed any information that did not support the war

and now complete morons are buying into the faulty intelligence lies.

that's a repug world for you.

[reddread]

3. I wouldnt narrow the blame excessively

as far as stupification, that started decades previously, the fruits of which have now ripened past stinking.
The mendacity of media and unregulated cable excuses have their roots in 1947.
what a long, sad trip it's been.

[samsingh]

5. the right wing media was in full cohoots

but the bushies destroyed anyone who questioned the need to go to war.

[reddread]

6. Rather as an example

among others, now we do it ourselves.
the Bush era was begun in the 80's and now we are the fruits of it.

[procon]

2. The information that countered Bush's war plans was hard to find.

I remember only a few American news outlets carried any stories that questioned or refuted the outright lies coming out of Bush's war machine. There was credible news coming out of the foreign media that just ripped the Bush propaganda to shreds, but under the caveat of silly slogans like, 'if they aren't with us, they were agin us', the public became suspicious of anything that wasn't cheerleading the push for war.

I'd really like to know why the American media tossed aside their critical role the Fourth Estate who must ask the hard questions of our government leaders and press them for verifiable answers in the public's name. Instead of leading the vanguard in investigating the administration's cherry picked claims, the press became simpering, fawning lapdogs.

[reddread]

4. profit motives, regulatory threats, tax incentives, maybe?

the "media" was a lapdog to NSA drug running law breakers long before GW was seated.

[malaise]

7. K & R

for truth