Milwaukee Paper Apologizes for Accepting 'Cooked' WMD Evidence

[flowomo]

By E&P Staff
Published: October 31, 2005 10:55 AM ET

NEW YORK The most important newspaper in its region finally apologized to readers for accepting "cooked" evidence about WMD in Iraq that helped lead to war in 2003. No, it was not The New York Times.

In a column on Sunday, O. Ricardo Pimentel, editorial page editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote that, “Yes, regrettably on the matter of WMD, count us as among the many who were duped. We should have been more skeptical. For that lack of skepticism and the failure to include the proper caveats to the WMD claim, we apologize, though I would note that, ultimately, we didn't believe that the president's central WMD argument warranted war. Not then and especially not now.”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001392546

[Loonman]

1. There's one

What about the other media whores. I won't hold my breath waiting for teh New York Slimes.

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Actually, they apologized months ago.

But the ones who really should acknowledge this are the ones who fed the lies to the media in the first place.

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. Kudos. Gotta respect that.

:kick:

[Festivito]

4. Did they send free copies to the six-billion people affected? /nt

[indepat]

5. It's high time every media outlet and member of Congress who bought

into this cooked intelligence apologize and undo, the extent possible, all the terrible wrong that has been inflicted on this nation and the world as a result thereof.

[kanrok]

6. Damned liberal press!

You cannot win with the far right wing. As sure as I'm sitting here, typing this, once my far right wing acquaintances see this, the first sentence out of their mouths will contain "liberal" and "press."

[ginnyinWI]

7. and they're not so liberal, anyway

They are fairly mainstream. They carry a lot of conservative columnists. And they weren't even going to endorse a candidate in the 2004 election, but then at the last minute did endorse Kerry. We have a free alternative weekly paper here for critiques of the WH, but the Journal Sentinel is usually reluctant. Glad to see them admit this.