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2005-03-21 Iraq-Jordan

NYT: There Are Signs the Tide May Be Turning on Iraq's Street of Fear

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-21 8:34:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Arthur Sulzberger continues to piss away his once magnificent inheritance to stay in the good graces of the Kool Aid Kocktail Circuit Krowd. The New Yellow Times is rotten from top to bottom. Burns needs a smoke detector and a new inner ear, it seems, to alert him he's on a ship that's burning and sinking.

Posted by .com 2005-03-21 10:30:52 AM|| 2005-03-21 10:30:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mrs. D: In the national print edition this is front-page below the fold (close but no cigar.)
The main thing the NYT has done with its Iraq coverage is to contract it from a couple of front-page articles and two full inside pages down to usually one front-page article and one inside page. Oddly enough, this change occurred shortly after January 30.

Burns is good but you get the impression that the editors are on-call 24 hours a day to dilute any positive reports. For example: "American morale, for the moment, is high..." "For the moment" looks like it was stuck in by an editor, and what the hell does it mean? That we should expect a collapse in American morale any minute? In your transi dreams, NYT dudes.

Posted by Matt 2005-03-21 10:40:50 AM|| 2005-03-21 10:40:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 MD: We could probably have gotten to this point a lot sooner if we had not pursued the de-Baathification policy.

Don't really see it. De-Baathification was necessary because we weren't going to run Iraq like a protectorate, which is what we did in West Germany. We wrote Germany's constitution and let them elect their own leaders 5 years after the end of the war. There was no question of West Germany ejecting US troops at any time in the occupation. Any attempt to do that in the first few decades of the postwar era would have resulted in the disbanding of the West German Army (Bundeswehr) and a protracted war to keep the West Germans down. These are not options with Iraq.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-03-21 10:51:52 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-03-21 10:51:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Check this out, though. The Times is still far from sane.

Posted by someone 2005-03-21 3:02:00 PM|| 2005-03-21 3:02:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone, that's by Edward Wong. If Wong saw Rummy using Zarqawi's head as a bowling ball, he'd find some way to spin it.

"The toughness of Mr. Zarqawi's skull enabled the beleaguered Secretary of Defense to pick up a difficult spare, foreshadowing further resurgence blah blah blah..."

Posted by Matt 2005-03-21 3:39:57 PM|| 2005-03-21 3:39:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Greyhawk over at Mudville Gazette isn't very happy with Mr. Wong's reportage:

"Those who disembowel aid workers and turn victims of Down's Syndrome into 'suicide bombers' have no greater champion than Ed Wong."

I'm not so sure about that. Dexter Filkins of the NYT is pretty close.

Posted by Matt 2005-03-21 6:46:07 PM|| 2005-03-21 6:46:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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