Journalists should have been more skeptical about Iraq war buildup

[struggle4progress]

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Woodward, author of a best-selling account of the 16 months leading to the war, said at a lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations that Bush believed it was his duty to overthrow former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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Woodward, a Washington Post journalist who wrote an earlier book on Bush's anti-terrorism campaign and broke the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, blamed himself and other journalists for not being aggressive enough in questioning the pre-war intelligence on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction, a major reason used by Bush for war.
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''We need to be much more skeptical and inquisitive,'' Woodward said, recalling how one national security source told him that the ''the intelligence was skimpy.''
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/161/nation/Post_s_Woodward_Journalists_sh:.shtml



Wow! Everybody's jumping ship to sing:
"It ain't me babe
No no no it ain't me babe
It ain't me you're looking for babe"

[KoKo]

1. hmmm....did he forget that he was too busy interviewing the Chimp for

both of his books to bring up that "pesky little question?"

[Skittles]

3. Woodward is the typical Bush whore with blood on his hands

NOW he's getting a conscience? Tell that to the parents of 800+ dead soldiers, Bob.

[UpInArms]

2. what's wrong, Bob,

got a hole in your kneepads?

:puke:

"Should have been more skeptical"?

No, Bob, you should have been a "journalist" and a "reporter", not a freakin' toady stenographer.

:puke:

It's people like you, Bob, that have discredited the Fourth Estate.

:puke:

So when are you going to come clean with the crap that you published and "discredit" what you kept writing all those months?

[jbfam4]

4. duty to free people and liberate people

''I believe we have a duty to free people and liberate people,'' Woodward said Bush told him during interviews for his book ''Plan of Attack.''

Funny, I didn't hear these words in oath of office for the President.

I did hear that the duty of the president of the US is supposed to serve and protect us.

How protected where the people he sent to war? Who was protecting them? All this talk of supporting the troops...where were the vest and armor plates?