©Copyright 2004 Lewis Downey
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Saturday, July 17, 2004 |
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8:23:08 PM
Yahoo! 'NY Times' Admits 'Mistakes' in Iraq War Editorials (Editor and Publisher). Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Less than two months after it published a lengthy editors' note correcting some of its coverage about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, The New York Times said on its editorial page this morning that it was time to be "candid" about its "mistakes" during the run-up to the war. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]..."we regret now that we didn't do more to challenge the president's assumptions. ... Just as we cannot undo the invasion," the editorial continued, "we cannot pretend that it was a good idea -- even if it had been well carried out." ...
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