On Syria, the NYT Still Doesn't Get It

[reprehensor]

On Syria, the NYT Still Doesn't Get It

by Robert Parry

It’s finally dawning on the New York Times how thoroughly it was spun on the fictions about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, but the “newspaper of record” is showing the same credulity about the emerging Syrian crisis.

“Some deeply troubling facts about the murder of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister, have now been established by a tough and meticulous United Nations investigation,” the Times wrote in an Oct. 25 editorial demanding punishment for top Syrian and Lebanese officials supposedly implicated by the report.

But the problem with the Times editorial is that the report by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis is anything but “meticulous,” reading more like a compilation of circumstantial evidence and conspiracy theories than a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. (See Consortiumnews.com’s “The Dangerously Incomplete Hariri Report}.”)
[br />Mehlis’s report, for instance, fails to follow up a key lead, the Japanese identification of the Mitsubishi Canter Van that apparently carried the explosives used in the Feb. 14 bombing that killed Hariri. The van was reported stolen in Sagamihara City, Japan, on Oct. 12, 2004, but Mehlis’s report indicates no effort to investigate how the vehicle got from the island of Japan to Beirut.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. OH, they get it, but they are taking their marching orders from Israel.

That also explains their willingness to support Miller in her pro-neocon propaganda storm.
ISRAEL and the neocons are the ones who wish for more war. Even if the proofs are lacking.

[400Years]

2. NYT is a propaganda outlet, they "get it" quite well

people who think the Times is always somehow getting duped seem to not understand what is really going on here.

[lyonn]

3. Robert Parry gets it right again, me thinks

We keep getting suggestions that we, the U.S., need to get rough with Syria. Once again we are getting these mixed messages but mostly that we need to cut Syria off and possibly do some distruction in that area along with Iran. Well, this admin. needs to get their ducks in a row and just reinstate the draft to accomplish all THEIR goals. We have just about worn out our/this military.