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                                             April 17, 2007


   "There's plenty of blame to go round. You'd think
   these days that the cheerleaders for war were limited
   to a platoon of neocons, as potent in historical
   influence as were supposedly the Knights Templar. But
   it was not so. The coalition of the enablers spread
   far beyond Cheney's team and the extended family of
   Norman Podhoretz. Atop mainstream corporate journalism
   perch the New York Times and the New Yorker, two prime
   disseminators of pro-invasion propaganda, written at
   the NYT by Judith Miller, Michael Gordon and, on the
   op ed page, by Thomas Friedman. The New Yorker put
   forth the voluminous lies of Jeffrey Goldberg and has
   remained impenitent till this day."

          -- Alexander Cockburn, "Counterpunch"
             [ref]

And further:

   "Among the progressives the liberal interventionists
   thumped their tin drums, often by writing pompous
   pieces attacking the antiwar 'hard left'. Mini-pundits
   Todd Gitlin and Michael Berube played this game
   eagerly. Berube lavished abuse on Noam Chomsky and
   other clear opponents of the war, mumbling about the
   therapeutic potential of great power interventionism,
   piously invoking the tradition of 'left internationalism'."

             -- Alexander Cockburn, "Counterpunch"
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