WaPo: I didn't know you could pile shit that high...

i'm on my way to buenos aires... this morning, before i left, i read a wapo editorial that really pissed me off but in the usual busy-ness of getting ready to leave on a major trip, i forgot about it... in the (relative) peace and quiet of the flight to dfw, i remembered it and decided to take another look... so, here i am at dfw, blogging away on wifi, re-reading the editorial and it's just as crappy and full of shit as i thought it was the first time...

After lagging for months, debate on Iraq in Washington is picking up again. That's a needed and welcome development, but much of the discussion is being diverted to the wrong subject. War opponents have been trumpeting several British government memos from July 2002, which describe the Bush administration's preparations for invasion, as revelatory of President Bush's deceptions about Iraq. Bloggers have demanded to know why "the mainstream media" have not paid more attention to them. Though we can't speak for The Post's news department, the answer appears obvious: The memos add not a single fact to what was previously known about the administration's prewar deliberations. Not only that: They add nothing to what was publicly known in July 2002.

you people are so full of shit it's unbelievable... sure, we fucking well KNEW he was lying at the time, at least anyone who had two brain cells to rub together... but it's one thing to know it in your gut and quite another to have it there in front of you in black and white... if that's the core essence of the editorial viewpoint of one of the nation's leading newspapers, god help us all...

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