Mea Sorta Culpa

The New York Times was one of the major cheerleaders for an invasion of Iraq – frequently citing the most unbelievably bogus stories about Iraqi WMDs or Al Qaida links as fact. Many of these fables seem to have come straight from Ahmed Chalabi or Dick Cheney’s office via their “ace” reporter Judith Miller. Anyway, the Times has finally got around to announcing, rather sheepishly, that pretty much everything of significance that the Times reported over the last two years about Iraq was wrong, incorrect, or plain fabricated. That so many of the “best” media in the US fell into lockstep with such a manifestly corrupt war agenda says volumes about the state of public discourse in the US.