Day After Gordon's Latest 'NYT' Front-Pager -- Bush and Cheney Threaten Iran

[RamboLiberal]

One day after The New York Times placed Michael R. Gordon's latest story about Iranian weapons allegedly blowing up large numbers of Americans in Iraq, President Bush warned that action might be taken against that country. McClatchy Newspapers meanwhile warned in a Web headline, "Cheney Urging Strikes on Iran."

It was reminiscent of the day in September 2002 when Cheney and other officials went on Sunday talk shows and touted the now-infamous Gordon-Judith Miller front-pager in the Times on the "aluminum tubes" in Iraq and the possible "mushroom cloud" on the horizon. The Times, and Gordon specifically, have been giving the unproven Iranian IED charges far more prominent play than any other major news outlet.

Meanwhile, a senior U.S. military officer told the Los Angeles Times that Saudi nationals compose 45 percent of foreign fighters in Iraq who actively target U.S. forces. Yet there has been relatively little media coverage, and few statements by U.S. military and officials, about this.

The McClatchy article by Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef, reveals, "Cheney, who's long been skeptical of diplomacy with Iran, argued for military action if hard new evidence emerges of Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq; for example, catching a truckload of fighters or weapons crossing into Iraq from Iran, one official said....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003624246

NYT - liberal paper my a**. They sure have a history of having whores in this "esteemed" newspaper!

[redqueen]

1. There are no liberal papers.

A few magazines are pretty liberal... but not liberal enough for my tastes. :7

[C_U_L8R]

2. bullshit smells

and this reeks on high

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Typo or admission of reality:

The McClatchy article provides this background: "President Dick Cheney several weeks ago proposed launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in Iraq run by the Quds force, a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to two U.S. officials who are involved in Iran policy.