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The Al Quaqaa story disappeared because there was no media follow through; because the oversight and investigation are anathema to the Republican Congres and because the Iraqi government supressed follow on reports until after the election so as not to embarrass Bush

That why we just learned a few days back that not only did Bush’s invasion force fail to secure ammo dumps, they also failed to secure weapons manufacturing facilities some of which had precision machine tools usable in nuclear weapons manufacture.

Please also note the “lose-lose” scenario: if the New York Times prints more stories about terrorists looting the unguarded Al Qaqaa armory – they’re showing “liberal bias” by their continued reporting. If they stop, they’re also showing “liberal bias.” Byron York apparently feels “fair and balanced” reporting is to bury any story that might possibly reflect badly upon George Bush. By that standard, PRAVDA gave us fair and balanced reporting on the old Soviet Union…

Ah, the Kool Aid. It rots your brain. But it is sweet. So sweet.

I doubt NYT editors jump to when NRO speaks. Also note the story’s length: It looks to have taken some time to report. Yes, you could argue, ‘exactly two weeks worth of time, in fact.’ But not reasonably, and not if you know anything about how the daily news business actually works. Stories get picked up, dropped, published and revisited for several reasons, few if any relating to political urges. A story’s progress from discovery to print has a lot of moving parts, and most of what delays a story or speeds one to print has to do with certainty (or lack thereof) about the facts and the sourcing.
But ignorance is a luxury: people who’ve never set foot into a newsroom can afford to fantasize that editors are little Saurons who watch the world with lidless eye and send their minions out to enforce the agenda. But is that a world anyone with sense, and a life, wants to live in? Where news isn’t read, just parsed for its left-right alignment and every story’s timing is proof of same.
Let us know how that works out for you.

It seems to me that the NY Times is full of Al Qaqaa.

From today’s NYT:
In the weeks after Baghdad fell in April 2003, looters systematically dismantled and removed tons of machinery from Saddam Hussein’s most important weapons installations, including some with high-precision equipment capable of making parts for nuclear arms, a senior Iraqi official said this week in the government’s first extensive comments on the looting.

Since the evidence seems to be plentiful that the Great Bush Plan to Save Us All From Iraq’s WMD didn’t include any plans for, you know, actually securing any weapons sites, I’d say there’s little here for the BananaRepublicans to crow about. You’d think they’d be grateful for the lack of stories about how incompetent Dear Leader and his Krazy Krew have been.

Remember when Bushco showed warehouse of allowed ordinance to create a WMD perception?

Of course you do. Just before they quit guarding such areas and went for supply runs to oil/gas sights and the logistics of halliburton convoy escorts.

Thanks goodness they damn near offed the Italian woman who was going to talk about Fallujeh war crimes. We woudln’t want to endanger the troops by maybe putting a stop to this bullshit war.