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She wrote "garbage, garbage that powered the Bush administration's propaganda drive toward invasion."
"She was a witting cheerleader for war. She knew what she was doing." So did Times editors. They supported what they should have stopped.
They had ample evidence. Hussein Kamel was Saddam's son-in-law. He headed Iraq's weapons programs. He defected with crates of state secrets.
US intelligence operatives debriefed him. No nuclear program existed. After the Gulf War, "Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and missiles to deliver them," he said.
The Times reported it. It then buried what he said and forgot it. It never resurfaced in the run-up to the 2003 war. Lies substituted for truth.
On July 1, 2003, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) headlined " The Great WMD Hunt ," saying:
"Within the press, perhaps the most energetic disseminator of "inactionable intelligence" on Iraq's putative weapons has been the New York Times' Judith Miller."She "accumulated a bulging clippings file over the years full of splashy, yet often maddeningly unverifiable, exposes alleging various Iraqi arms shenanigans." Reports about them included:
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