Reply #3: my problem is the last paragraph

[Kellanved]

--snip

"People who were opposed to the war from the beginning and have been critical of the media's coverage in the period before the war have this belief that somehow the media should have crusaded against the war," Downie said. "They have the mistaken impression that somehow if the media's coverage had been different, there wouldn't have been a war."

--snap

Nobody wanted the media to crusade against the war, but giving fair accounts about the reasoning of war protesters and anti-war nations would have been the Post's duty. The diplomatic trainwreck is by no small part the fault of the media implicitly claiming that all positions other than the administration's are/were Anti-American and stupid.
Also I had the impression that the truth always had been enough reason to start a "crusade" for the WPost. Sad that those days are over.