by Paul Krugman

Some news organizations, including The New York Times, are currently engaged in self-criticism over the run-up to the Iraq war. They are asking, as they should, why poorly documented claims of a dire threat received prominent, uncritical coverage, while contrary evidence was either ignored or played down...

Published on Friday, May 28, 2004 by the New York Times

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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views04/0528-03.htm


Informant: Chris

by Ze'ev Schiff

An Israeli security analyst sees no victory for either occupation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/432496.html

Information from http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/#000301

by Georgie Anne Geyer

New Europe's founding father criticizes the Bush grand strategy.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-0405280357may28,1,4025236.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed

The inspiring leader of the Solidarity trade union movement that cracked the Warsaw Pact with funding from Reagan’s National Endowment for Democracy says America veered way off course when it invaded Iraq. Turns our New Europe isn’t such a neocon haven, after all.

http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=4mozu9n6.4l8gm9n6.a7k7u9n6.tiniiyn6.80374&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tompaine.com%2Fopinion%2F%23000304

President George W. Bush knew for over two years that his administration has been promoting policies that qualify as war crimes under the 1996 federal War Crimes Act, the international Third Geneva Convention, and the Torture Convention.

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=750

The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress, and the Media from September 12, 2001 to October 11, 2002

http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/news/largio.htm


From Information Clearing House

Background information On Ashcrofts summer "suspect" list

http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=290


From Information Clearing House

Die "New York Times" kritisiert ihre eigene Berichterstattung im Umfeld des Irak-Krieges.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/17521/1.html

Perle: US war policy a "grave error"

Toronto Star

05/26/04

"One of the ideological architects of the Iraq war has criticized the U.S.-led occupation of the country as 'a grave error.' Richard Perle, until recently a powerful adviser to U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, described U.S. policy in post-war Iraq as a failure. ... 'We didn't have to find ourselves in the role of occupier. We could have made the transition that is going to be made at the end of June more or less immediately,' he told BBC radio, referring to the U.S. and British plan to transfer political authority in Iraq to an interim government on June 30."


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"How dare the incompetent and willful members of this Bush/Cheney Administration humiliate our nation and our people in the eyes of the world and in the conscience of our own people."

http://www.moveonpac.org/goreremarks052604.html/


Informant: Mike Conley



One quote here, read the entire thing if you're interested. Gore here recognizes the "us and them" paradox where we de-humanize our "enemies." You don't have to believe in a soul to recognize what he's saying here. If you want to watch it, go here http://www.cspan.org/ and click on the Al Gore item (Fmr. V.P. Al Gore Address on Iraq Policy )


Informant: Ken DeBusk

26.05.04

Der Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag, der sich in den letzten Wochen wiederholt mit der Situation im Irak und im Nahen Osten befasst hat, hält die jüngste Rede des US-Präsidenten für eine politische Katastrophe. Bushs 5-Schritte-Strategie zur Herstellung der Souveränität und zur Befriedung des Irak sei eine explosive Mischung aus Ignoranz und Arroganz. Bush verkenne den Ernst der Lage im Irak, wenn er davon ausgehe, dass die Besatzung von der irakischen Bevölkerung gutgeheißen und die versprochene Freiheit begrüßt würden.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=8531