It is good to see a US paper apologising for being dudded re
Iraq's fictional "Weapons of Mass Destruction". The US is a
target-rich environment, and the people were easily gulled
by performances like Colin Powell faking away like mad in
front of the UN Security Council. :)

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Milwaukee Paper Apologizes for Accepting 'Cooked' WMD Evidence

By E&P Staff

Published: October 31, 2005 10:55 AM ET

NEW YORK The most important newspaper in its region finally apologized
to readers for accepting "cooked" evidence about WMD in Iraq that
helped lead to war in 2003. No, it was not The New York Times.

In a column on Sunday, O. Ricardo Pimentel, editorial page editor at
the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote that, "Yes, regrettably on the
matter of WMD, count us as among the many who were duped. We should
have been more skeptical. For that lack of skepticism and the failure
to include the proper caveats to the WMD claim, we apologize, though 
I would note that, ultimately, we didn't believe that the president's
central WMD argument warranted war. Not then and especially not now."

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Full story at "Editor & Publisher"
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/
article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001392546


Cheers, Steve..

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