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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (584274)	6/20/2004 4:41:11 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

They Linked Him, They Linked Him Not... Just one minute blog As the editors at the NY Times continue to pluck petals off a daisy, they manage to execute a 180 degree turn from the Saturday Editorial (Show Us the Proof) to the Sunday Week in Review on the question of whether the Bush Administration linked Saddam to the 9/11 attacks. Saturday: Mr. Bush said the 9/11 panel had actually confirmed his contention that there were "ties" between Iraq and Al Qaeda. He said his administration had never connected Saddam Hussein to 9/11. Both statements are wrong. Sunday (see pop-up titled "What The Bush Administration Said": Critics of the Bush Administration argue that it falsely created a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks to help justify the war. Last week, the administration countered that it had never made such an assertion - only that there were ties, however murky, between Iraq and Al Qaeda. A survey of past public comments seems to bear that out - although whether there was a deliberate campaign to create guilt by association is difficult to say. Is this a rowback, or just a complete collapse into schizophrenia? I can hardly wait for Monday's installment - perhaps the Times can introduce an alien abduction theory. The NY Times is running a series of promotional advertisements in my television market. Part of the pitch shows some earnest chap extolling the Times for (paraphrasing) "really surrounding a story - they give me so many ways to understand it". Maybe this is what he had in mind. justoneminute.typepad.com