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  • Washington Post: Iraq coverage flawed [Didn't question Bush's WMD claims enough]

    08/12/2004 4:18:28 AM PDT · by ejdrapes · 20 replies · 590+ views
    newsobserver ^ | August 12, 2004 | AP
    Washington Post: Iraq coverage flawed WASHINGTON (AP) - Editors at The Washington Post acknowledge they underplayed stories questioning President Bush's claims of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the months leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In the story published Thursday in the newspaper, Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes that editors resisted stories that questioned whether Bush had evidence that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction. "We did our job but we didn't do enough, and I blame myself mightily for not pushing harder," assistant managing editor Bob Woodward says in the story. "We should...