The NYT’s cooked up editorial

First the editorial, on the now-debunked but widely talked about news reports from several news outlets about pre-war Iraq intelligence reports that were supposedly ‘cooked up’ to fit the admin’s agenda of ‘forcing a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda’.

Now, the smackdown of that editorial: from Curt at Flopping Aces, who provides link after link of evidence to the contrary of the NYT’s editorial, including this video from ABC News from 1999, recaptured by John Hinderaker at Powerline, that is like a trip down memory lane in terms of detailing the contacts believed by the prior administration to have existed between Iraq and AQ, too:

Make sure to read at the Powerline post what Iraq/AQ terrorist links researcher Thomas Joscelyn has to say about the media – and Dem (but I repeat myself) – spin on this story.

Update: For laughs, check out the predictable left’s response to reporting of the admin’s alleged ‘cooked up’ links here (the Hullabaloo link).

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February 11, 2007 at 10:34 am

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Severian says:

February 11, 2007 at 10:37 am

Liberals and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have taken a page right out of the former Soviet Union’s and Orwell’s MiniTruth playbook, erase any inconvenient information or history that conflicts with your current spin. Just as the USSR airbrushed out people who were no longer acceptable, and Orwell’s MiniTruth (Ministry of Truth) removed stories and people, made them disappear from all records, so the lib/Dems are lying and distorting and pretending like what they did and said in the past never existed. And the insulting thing is that they expect us to just nod our heads and agree with them that the past never existed. And the depressing thing is that so many of the deluded fools out there that makeup the MSM and liberal voters go along with it.
JammieWearingFool says:

February 11, 2007 at 11:10 am

Osama-Iraq Connection

Interesting video courtesy of Power Line.

Of course, everybody knows there was no connection between bin Laden and Iraq. I wonder why ABC News has been hiding this?
chris says:

February 11, 2007 at 11:39 am

It doesn’t matter any more. We know the truth and the left know it’s “truth”. Saddam could come back from the dead and confess to WMD, Niger uranium purchases and nuke weapon programs and the left would call it a Bush conspiracy to force them to believe in the afterlife and God…
Baklava says:

February 11, 2007 at 11:57 am

Somebody needs to get that Nina Easton video and post it. She was just on Fox News Sunday and said that the war in Iraq was not justified due to Iraq and Al Qaeda links – she said if you go back it was always about WMD’s and the intelligence on that from the 2002 NIE report was wrong as it had been wrong for years even before Bush.

Unfortunately no matter if the video is played 10 times daily on CNN liberals will be making false accusations about Bush cooking the intelligence or whatever.
Great White Rat says:

February 11, 2007 at 12:01 pm

So in 1999, ABC News – a card-carrying member of the MSM establishment – was able to air a report detailing some of the cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. But suddenly, as soon as Bush became president, we were supposed to believe that the two had nothing to do with each other. Somehow, we’re expected to forget what was already known and conclude that Bush and some cabal of neocons drove AQ into Saddam’s arms.

Why the 180 degree change? Simple – it would help Dems get elected. It would be too much to expect your average liberal to stick to principles here and say, wait a minute – that isn’t what you said two years ago. Given the choice between having America succeed fighting terrorism or having America fail fighting terrorism, the left wants failure – as long as there’s a Republican president who might accrue some benefit from our success. It’s one more bit of evidence that the left puts achieving power over the good of the nation.
NC Cop says:

February 11, 2007 at 1:04 pm

The New York Times new motto: “The facts are completely irrelevant“.
Cao's Blog says:

February 11, 2007 at 1:40 pm

the smackdown; democrats’ orwellian historical revisionism

Sister Toldjah jogs some memories, borrowing the above clip from Powerline. This clip is important, because it’s an ABC news report from 1999, clearly showing that there was a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The New York Times cooked up …
Flopping Aces says:

February 11, 2007 at 2:16 pm

No Evidence Of A Saddam – Osama Link?

Via Powerline we get this trip down memory lane. 1999 to be exact. It’s a ABC news report which details all the connections between Saddam and Osama, of course this was before Bush came along and "cooked" the books according…
G-Monster says:

February 12, 2007 at 1:42 am

The NY Times is putting thier politics in front of thier patriotism? I think I’ve seen this before. Let’s see, they screwed up the swift program. They screwed up our eavesdrop programs. The list is pretty long, so I’ll just leave it at those 2.

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