[BCrago66]

It's that kind of attitude that got Rosenthal booted from the NYTimes.

[Cap Huff]

"David Kay, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, announced that he had not found any evidence of weapons of mass destruction there."

This is a gross distortion.

[George W. Bush]

The article promotes the idea that the invasion was justified on human rights grounds.

This is utterly false. It was the illegality of Saddam's regime in violating the U.N. sanctions and the peace treaty he signed with the American-led coalition of GW I. And the American government's post-9/11 threat assessment of him as a 'gathering threat', among other phrases used to describe the need to topple him.

Human rights were never a primary justifiction before the war. It is not legitimate to somehow suggest that human rights abuses justify Saddam's overthrow after the fact.

Human rights conditions in foreign lands are not a justification for pre-emptive war in the American tradition.

[Cicero]

Well, only the insiders know for sure, but I think two things got Abe Rosenthal booted from his high position at the NY Times:

1. His embarrassing campaign to bring the worldwide persecution of Christians, especially in Communist and Muslim countries, to public attention.

2. His warning to his bosses that Maureen Dowd was out of control and a public embarrassment to the NY Times.

Plus we could add 3. He was a decent man. And decent men don't last long at the Times under the regime of Pinch Sulzberger. A few of them survived under Pinch's father; but no longer.

[an amused spectator]

Badly timed and of little, if any, direct benefit to the US.

I'm real glad that you're not in charge of U.S. strategy in the war on terror...