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Nuclear subs collide in Atlantic

Fox News: where quality control isn't a problem

Braindead Media: Fox News Hires Disgraced Reporter Judith Miller

On Sept. 7, 2002, she and fellow New York Times reporter Michael Gordon reported that Iraq had "stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb." As proof, she cited unnamed "American intelligence experts" and unnamed "Bush administration officials." Subsequently, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld all pointed to Miller’s story as justification for war. On April 22, 2003, she told PBS’s Newshour that WMD had already been found in Iraq: "Well, I think they found something more than a ’smoking gun.’"
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"She has a very impressive résumé," says Senior Vice President John Moody. "We’ve all had stories that didn’t come out exactly as we had hoped..."

it was just a presentation error, so any fullas#i+ness you might have detected was probably a misperception on your part

DAILY GRILL

"I don't think that administration officials purposely overstated [the threat of Iraq]. I do think there were errors made in the presentation."
-- Iraq war architect Doug Feith, 6/18/08

VERSUS

"A long-delayed Senate report...has concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies."
-- New York Times, 6/5/08, on a Senate Intelligence Committee report

one problem with the prediction that future generations will look favorably on his prezzziduncy: they will all be dead

News item: Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated

As the door begins to close on his tenure, Bush is increasingly drawing on selected events of the past to argue that history will vindicate him on Iraq, terrorism, trade and other controversial issues.
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White House aides say Bush, who majored in history at Yale, likes to emphasize historical comparisons because they are easy for the public to understand and illustrate in dramatic fashion how differently future generations may come to view him.

Unfortunately for the president, many historians have already reached a conclusion. In an informal survey of scholars this spring, just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the "worst president ever."