Reply #12: My letter to the Times...

[ianbruce]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for finally getting the story straight on the actual function of an Artillery Meteorological System (AMETS). It may interest you to know that the UK’s Guardian newspaper had a highly comprehensive piece back in early June (about the same time as Judith Miller’s embarrassingly breathless front-page pronouncements, if memory serves).

There is much to be said about the Times. Lately it’s been things like, “what the hell is going on at the Times?” As much as I appreciate your editorial section (Paul Krugman’s columns, for example) they are of course, only opinions.

With regard to your news department -- I pray this is a beginning of a trend.

ianbruce
Los Angeles & New York


Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs'
Saddam's trucks were for balloons, not germs
Peter Beaumont and Antony Barnett
Sunday June 8, 2003

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,973196,00.html