04-02-2003 01:37									#1
	Iraq thanks NYT for publishing Pelletiere piece Got spare money?

From the WSJ online


"A Laurel for Howell
Mohammad Aldouri, Iraq's ambassador to the U.N., appeared on "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow yesterday, and he "he thanked the New York Times for defending Iraq," blogger Will Veers reports. We went to the transcript (not available on FoxNews.com, but we found it on Factiva) and our TiVo to find out what Aldouri said, and it turns out he was referring to an op-ed piece, which we noted Friday, in which one Stephen Pelletiere pronounces Saddam Hussein innocent of human-rights violations and urges America to stop--this is an actual quote--"picking on" the poor Iraqi dictator. Says Aldouri:

This is a part of the American and the British propaganda against my country. . . . Your president, President Bush, mentioned that several times that Iraq, the president of Iraq, poisoned its own people. Pelletiere in the article in New York Times last Friday, and I'm thankful for the New York Times for that, saying that it is not true, Iraq is not poisoning its own people.

The Friday piece for which Aldouri is thanking the Times claimed, despite ample documentation from Human Rights Watch and others, that Saddam Hussein did not commit genocide against the Kurds in northern Iraq. It's almost as if a humble Holocaust denier had won public praise from Adolf Eichmann himself. Howell Raines must be beaming with pride."

	04-02-2003 01:54									#2
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Here is a article on a Pelletiere speech given just after 9/11. More of the same: He even suggested that OBL would be used as a scapegoat regardless of whether he was guilty - which Pelletiere said was unlikely.

He seems to be a professor at, of all places, US Army War College!

http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap...0010918ftr.html

	04-02-2003 01:57									#3
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*Sigh* Someone's got egg on his face...

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Eh. NYT can print what they want. It's a free country.

	04-02-2003 02:08									#5
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quote: He seems to be a professor at, of all places, US Army War College!

	04-02-2003 02:13									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Ned Here is a article on a Pelletiere speech given just after 9/11. More of the same: He even suggested that OBL would be used as a scapegoat regardless of whether he was guilty - which Pelletiere said was unlikely. He seems to be a professor at, of all places, US Army War College! http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap...0010918ftr.html

in the speech you link to he says the following

'Pelletiere urged the public to ?pay special attention? to the fact that journalists who are focusing on these stories and opinions are conservative, as are the newspapers publishing them, mainly The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. The line between news and opinion has become blurred, mainly through the op-ed pages of the newspapers. ?Spurious? ideas start there and then filter into the news.'

I find this a tad ironic, dont you??

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	04-02-2003 02:56									#8
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The New York Times and The Washington Post are hardly bastions of conservative thought....

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quote: Originally posted by Timexwatch The New York Times and The Washington Post are hardly bastions of conservative thought....

Yeah... The New York Times and the Washington Post... Conservative...

	04-02-2003 04:11									#11
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What are we laughing at again?

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Just go with it, PH .