Thursday, June 26, 2003

PROFILES IN UNMITIGATED GALL

Here's an item about WMD fabulist and self-appointed military unit commander Judith Miller, from Editor and Publisher, May 29, 2003:

In a speech to graduates of Barnard College in New York last week, New York Times correspondent and Barnard alumna Judith Miller called upon the media and military to examine the program of embedding journalists with U.S. troops during the Iraq war.

Herself an embed with the 75th Exploitation Task Force, which was charged with finding weapons of mass destruction, Miller said she returned from Iraq with questions about the embedding process. "Journalists need to draw conclusions about whether objectivity was compromised during the war," she said. "The military needs to consider whether the strain of taking care of us and protecting us, and giving us dangerous information was an undue burden on the military. We all need to decide whether the country's interests were best served by this arrangement."...


No, wait, there's more:

Miller added that many unanswered questions remain about the reasons given by the Bush administration for invading Iraq. "Were those who wanted to go to war deceiving themselves about Saddam's capabilities?" she asked....

Self-deceivers? I think it takes one to know one.

(The Editor and Publisher link is from Gabriel at A Berkeley Economist Against Empire -- and I like his Judith Miller "photo.")

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