Hawkish 'Washington Post' Hits Bush on Iraq

[UpInArms]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000632764

NEW YORK In a surprise that could influence editorial pages of other newspapers, not to mention the current presidential contest, The Washington Post, which has been hawkish on Iraq since before the war, has accused President Bush of being "bland to the point of dishonesty" in his recent comments on the deteriorating situation in Iraq.

"Not only has Mr. Bush not said how, or whether, he intends to respond to the worsening situation, he doesn't really admit it exists .... This duck-and-cover strategy may have its political advantages, but it is also deeply irresponsible and potentially dangerous," the Post declared on Sunday.

Leading Republican senators John McCain and Chuck Hagel also hit the President's Iraq policies on Sunday talk shows.

Washington Post editors recently admitted that in their news pages they offered an imbalanced view of the Iraq threat in the months before the U.S. invasion, but the paper's influential editorial page has until recently remained staunchly behind the President on this issue.

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[indie_voter]

1. years from now they will admit to biased election coverage. :p n/t

[dennis4868]

2. I had this bad feeling....

until last week that the Washington Post was going to endorse Bush.....

[natrat]

3. bushco without a doubt

is the most inept admin ever. Tempting to laugh if it were not for all the people getting hurt.

[gratuitous]

4. Oh golly, we've been imbalanced . . . again

Another empty mea culpa from the WaPo editors. Yup, we've been taken again, and several thousand people have lost their lives. Gee, we're sorry . . . again.

Are they going to be more skeptical in the future? Well, they wouldn't want to appear partisan, now would they? After all, the solution to partisanship is not more partisanship, is it? We must be even-handed even when one side is plainly dealing in falsehood, half-truth and deception. We must give their lies a full airing before deciding some weeks or months or years down the line that, although we knew they were lying at the time, we didn't want to appear to be taking sides by calling their lies lies.

And another 1,000 soldiers come home as cargo instead of passengers.

[jackofhearts]

5. Iraq is the achilles heel of the bush regime

It looks like the shit is hitting the fan for the dumbfucks. If Kerry keeps up the heat and DOES NOT BACK DOWN regardless of the trash talk from the regime he can bury bush. Of course then we have voting machines, election manipulation in Florida, voter fraud investigations by the nazis and of course some strange October surprise. Its not over but the bush regime has shown such incompetence in Iraq that even fellow nazis are freaking out.

God I love to watch the worms squirm.

[Javaman]

6. Achllies heel? it's the whole leg!