Thomas Friedman Resigns AND Admits Bush Is A War Criminal (NYT)

[kpete]

Yesterday, in the spirit of great satire, the Yes Men published a fake edition of The New York Times from the future, filled with stories that many of us would love to see in print. Friedman's resignation is one of the editorials. I urge you to check it out, and forward it to everyone you know. It's truly priceless. Even the ads are biting and hilarious.
http://www.nytimes-se.com/2009/07/04/the-fine-print

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The End of the Experts?
By Thomas J. Friedman
Published: July 4th, 2009

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But to have been so completely and fundamentally wrong about so huge a disaster as what we have done to Iraq — and ourselves — is outrageous enough to prove that people like me have no business posing as wise men, and, more importantly, that The New York Times has no business continuing to provide me with a national platform.

In any case, I have made a decision: as of today, I will no longer write in this or any other newspaper. I will immediately desist from writing any more books about how it’s time for everyone to climb on board the globalization high-speed monorail to the future. I will keep my opinions to myself.

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Now the simple fact is, an unprovoked attack on a sovereign state is a war crime, even when linked to grand ideas of the future of mankind. In fact, that’s exactly what Hitler did, for exactly the same reasons. The Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal called it the “the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

What was I thinking? And more importantly, why didn’t anyone stop me?

more at:
http://www.nytimes-se.com/2009/07/04/the-end-of-the-experts/

[acmavm]

1. Too little too late.

[goclark]

2. K and R

[AlCzervik]

3. the link is farked already, that was from the fake edition of the nyt, too bad it

wasn't real though.

[mike_c]

6. the OP is fake?

bummer

[AlCzervik]

8. here's the link-

i wish it was real

http://www.nytimes-se.com/

[tigereye]

4. holy shit!

I just saw him on the Daily Show and there was no mention of this.


Astounding. Of course, he's so busy writing books now, he probably has little time for his column.

[AlCzervik]

7. it's not the real edition, it did not happen.

http://www.nytimes-se.com/

[tigereye]

14. initially it looked like an Onion article ;)

thanks...

[The Magistrate]

5. Unfortunately, Ma'am, This Is Not An Actual Column On the Actual New York Times Site

[hlthe2b]

9. Wow... I knew it had to be a ruse, but it sure had me for a moment

[CTyankee]

10. Would that this were true! The date, of course, gives it away. Sad...

n/t

[aquart]

11. Putting (NYT) is misleading. You know, FALSE?

[wroberts189]

12. Oh man...how do I get into that universe??? Take me now please!!!

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[Winterblues]

13. So he is basically saying none of the above is true..

He is even a bigger ass than I first understood him to be...What he says is true(not the part about him quiting) but he made it out to be "fake" coverage. Making a joke out of International "war crimes"

[judasdisney]

15. Zero Credibility List: Top 10

Too many to list. Easier to find the four names WITH credibility.

Your suggestions?

[quiet.american]

16. LOL! Oh, that it were true! nt