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Our Web Site & Three Years of
War A Retrospective
March 21, 2006 |
Editor's
Note: Over the past three years, we have tried to provide a truthful
account of the Iraq War, from the early days of "shock and awe" to the
present drift toward "civil war." In doing so, we have always tried to
look past George W. Bush's happy talk and Washington's conventional
wisdom to track the logic -- or illogic -- of the administration's
policies.
Simply
following that trajectory revealed outcomes far more troubling and far
less favorable than U.S. officials and media pundits led the American
people to believe. As the Iraq War enters its fourth year, we have
pulled together links to a collection of our Iraq War stories written as
the tragedy unfolded:
I mmediately after George W.
Bush ordered the invasion on March 19, 2003, we began seeing a war
different from the one being presented in the U.S. news media to the
American people.
Our early reporting
on the war
described selective media outrage ("International
Law a la Carte") and the failure to challenge Bush's wishful
thinking ("Bay
of Pigs Meets Black Hawk Down"). We wrote how the war also
marked a dangerous trail from Republic to Empire ("Bush's
Alderaan" and "Empire
vs. Republic") and how lies had come to dominate truth in the U.S.
political process ("America's
Matrix" and "Bush
& the End of Reason").
As Iraq's violent insurgency gained
strength in mid-2003, we described the shifting rationales and the new
deceptions ("Bush's
New War Lies" and "France,
Bush & Drunk Driving"). We looked back, too, at the history that
contributed to the Iraq disaster ("Why
U.S. Intelligence Failed" and "Iraq,
Quicksand & Blood"). We followed Bush's scramble to justify the
deepening costs and contain the growing political damage ("Bush's
Iraq Getaway," "Bush's
Terror Hysteria," "Iraq's
Sovereignty Mirage")
In 2004, as the war continued its descent
into barbarity ("Apocalypse
Again," "Bush's
Bloody Flip-Flop," "Bush's
Death Squads"), we showed how the Washington news media was still
failing to do its job ("Bush
& the L-Word," "Reality
on the Ballot," "Iraq
Plan '03: Troops Home '04"). At times, it appeared Bush either was
suffering delusions or was convinced the American people were very
stupid ("Bush:
Deceptive or Delusional?" "Bush
the Infallible," "Bush's
Unaccountability Moment").
At the start of Bush's second term in 2005,
we described how the U.S. news media was again falling into line,
hailing Bush as a "visionary" who supposedly was bringing the fruits of
democracy to the Middle East. We offered another view ("Sinking
in Deeper," "Neocon
Amorality," "Bush's
Neocons Unbridled").
And as the Iraq War dragged on, we reported
on the gradual disclosures of the past deceptions and the slow awakening
of the American public to the darker truth ("For
Bush, Iraq Lies Are Fundamental," "The
Answer is Fear," "President
Bush, With the Candlestick..." "Bush's
'Happy Thoughts' Death Trap," "Bush
Feared Looking Weak on Iraq" "So
Iraq Was About the Oil").
Still, there was the problem of a
mainstream media that only grudgingly acknowledged its earlier errors
and tried to ignore the worsening reality ("LMSM
-- the Lying Mainstream Media" and "Mocking
the Downing Street Memo,") The new conventional wisdom was that Bush
was finally leveling with the American people. So we suggested what such
speeches would really sound like ("Bush's
Alternative Speech" and "Bush's
Terrifying Terror Speech.").
In the past nine months of war, we have
looked to the future and at the hard choices ahead ("War
or Impeachment," "Iraq
& the Logic of Withdrawal," "Is
Bush al-Qaeda's Useful Idiot?" "Frog-Marching
Bush to the Hague"). Beyond the political options at home, there
also are new danger signs in Iraq ("Bush
in Iraq, Slouching Toward Genocide" and "Osama's
Briar Patch").
Yet, we have not ignored Bush's new efforts
to rebuild his crumbling public support -- and the new deceptions
involved ("Al-Qaeda
Letter Belies Bush's Iraq Claims," "Bush's
Latest Iraq War Lies," "Is
Bush Leveling with America?" "Bush
& the Limits of Debate," "Is
Bush Stupid, or Is America?" "Bush,
Rats & a Sinking Ship," "Bush
Still Ignores Iraq Reality."
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