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Iraq War

• November 23 -- Condoleezza Rice Not as "Bellicose" As Feared?
A second Bush administration, unrestrained by the caution of Colin Powell, will lead the United States into an unending series of confrontations with the world.

• November 22 -- "The Worsening Situation in Iraq"
A front-page story by Larry Rohter on China's economic ties to Latin America includes, apropos of nothing: "The United States, preoccupied with the worsening situation in Iraq, seems to have attached little importance to China's rising profile in the region." Given the fall of the terror base of Falluja, are things really "worsening" in Iraq?

• November 22 -- U.S. Has "Devastated" Falluja, Threatens "Social Fabric"
Edward Wong's latest features more "devastation" wrought by the U.S. in Iraq.

• November 22 -- Rumsfeld: Better Than Those Neo-Cons
The Times comes up with some half-hearted praise for Rumsfeld, at least compared to those "neocons."

• November 22 -- U.S. Still "Going It Alone In Iraq"
Reporter Neil MacFarquhar delivers an anti-war cliché: "Washington's past determination to go it alone in Iraq…" But as the Times noted the day before: "36 countries have committed troops to support the operation in Iraq at some point."

• November 18 -- "Ruined, Devastated" Falluja
Edward Wong files another cheerless report: "Showing Their Resolve, Rebels Mount Attacks in Northern and Central Iraq."

• November 17 -- Condoleezza Rice, "Hard-Line Hawk"
The Times emphasizes Condoleezza Rice's "hard-line" and "hawkish" views.

• November 15 -- U.S. "Naïve," But "Great at Taking Things Apart"
Faint praise from ace Iraq gloomsayer, reporter Edward Wong.

• November 15 -- Chris Hedges Blows in Again, Predicting a Draft
Anti-war reporter Chris Hedges tells a college audience "We are losing the war in Iraq very badly" and predicts a reinstatement of the draft.

• November 8 -- "A More Imperial President"
Elisabeth Bumiller: "It is too early to tell if victory will lift what critics call the chip on [Bush's] shoulder and make him more magnanimous -- or whether it will simply create a more imperial president."

• November 4 -- No Marines for Bush?
Robert Worth talks with Marines near Falluja: "Some of the marines clearly had strong views about the presidential race and the way it would affect the military, though they have been instructed not to share those with reporters. Others seemed not to care much, saying the election seemed too far from their everyday lives to make much of an impression." Worth doesn't mention polls showing most troops support Bush.

• November 3 -- Bush "Most Polarizing President" Since Nixon
Post-election "news analysis" from Todd Purdum: "Already, through his aggressive handling of terrorism and foreign policy, he has made himself not only the most polarizing president since Richard M. Nixon but also guaranteed himself a prominent place in the history books, and historical debate, for years to come."

• November 1 -- The Times Finally Checks Out Its Own Scoop
The Times finally questions ("Why is this coming out in the week before the election?") its suspiciously timed "scoop" on missing Iraq explosives -- on the back pages of the Saturday edition.

• October 29 -- Explosives Scoop Vindicated? The NYT Thinks So
"Ammo-gate" again on the front page, in a story highlighting unearthed footage showing the Army's 101st Airborne opening barrels and boxes of powder at al Qaqaa. The one videotape is apparently all the vindication the Times needs for its anti-Bush bombshell.

• October 29 -- Boosting a Dubious Iraq Body Count to Bash Bush
"Study Puts Iraqi Deaths Of Civilians At 100,000" reads the headline to another conveniently timed anti-Bush story from Iraq. What the Times leaves out: The project's lead researcher is opposed to the war ,and the anti-war Human Rights Watch say the numbers look "inflated."

• October 28 -- "Legitimate" Concerns About NYT Bias
The Times reminds us things are still going badly in Iraq, with a front-page story by Edward Wong worrying once again about the "legitimacy" of the upcoming U.S.-sponsored elections there.

• October 27 -- Kerry's Not That Liberal, Part II
Todd Purdum makes the same "Kerry's-not-that-liberal" argument he made for the Times' biased voter guide: "[Kerry's] record is more eclectic and less predictable than that rating would imply."

• October 27 -- Sanger Still Pushing Explosives Scoop
David Sanger tails Bush through the Midwest and manages to work in his "explosives" scoop.

• October 27 -- "Explosive" Scoop: Firecracker or Fizzle?
The Times tries to rebut the White House counterattack to its dubious "missing explosives in Iraq" story.

• October 27 -- Blowback from the Times' "Explosives" Scoop
David Halbfinger enlists Tom Brokaw in a defense of the Times' deflating "Ammo-Gate" scoop, and the paper pats itself on the back for roiling the Bush camp.

• October 26 -- Times' "Explosive" Scoop: Bombshell or Politically Motivated Dud?
The Times trumpets two front-page stories blaming the Bush administration for letting almost 400 tons of powerful explosives disappear under its nose in Iraq. Grim news -- but is it true? An NBC News report suggests maybe not.

• October 22 -- A "Didactic" Anti-Michael Moore "Screed"
Movie critic Manohla Dargis takes on "Celsius 41.11", a conservative antidote to left-wing Michael Moore's "documentary": "A didactic screed that has all the verve of a PowerPoint presentation and all the subtlety of a Homeland Security red alert, 'Celsius 41.11' is finally interesting only because it represents another unconvincing effort on the part of conservatives to mount a viable critique of Mr. Moore."

• October 21 -- Sanger Frames Bush's Foreign Policy Message
David Sanger frames Bush's foreign policy message as an attempt to change the subject: "It is artfully crafted to get his audiences to look beyond the daily headlines of beheadings and suicide bombers, of an insurgency that has defied American military might…."

• October 21 -- "Soldiers…Show Quiet Support for Kerry, Too."
Very quiet support, judging by the surveys.

• October 21 -- New Respect for Pat Robertson
How can an evangelical conservative get a respectful hearing in the New York Times? Criticize Bush.

• October 20 -- A Ridiculous Rant on Bush's "Outright Assault" on the Press
Columnist Frank Rich argues the Bush administration is engaging in a scary, Nixonian type campaign of press intimidation and gives ten examples -- none of which hold up.

• October 19 -- Loving the "Neoconservative" Label
David Sanger wonders if a second Bush term would "be marked by pre-emption on steroids, unilateralism in a silken glove" and manages to say "neoconservative" three times.

• October 19 -- Pro-Kerry Commentary in the Corrections Box
A Times correction goes beyond fixing the error to include pro-Kerry editorial commentary.

• October 19 -- Classifying Terrorists as "Victims" in Iraq
The Times attempts to quantify the death toll among Iraqis: "A weeklong effort to tally Iraqi casualties shows soldiers, insurgents, politicians, journalists, a judge, a medic and restaurant workers among the victims." Why is the Times calling terrorists trying to kill U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians "victims"?

• October 12 -- How About Those Pro-Kerry Polls?
Another campaign story embraces recent poll findings -- now that they show Kerry doing better: "But Democrats, buoyed by a week of developments that undercut Mr. Bush's claims of vigorous job growth and his main justification for invading Iraq, said they would not lose the momentum heading into the final debate."

• October 12 -- Iovine's Odd Museum Piece
Julie Iovine on a proposed Army museum: "The United States Army has a lot on its plate these days. In Iraq, costs and casualties are mounting; back home, recruitment is dwindling."

• October 12 -- Bush's "Hang Tough" Decision Echoes Vietnam
David Sanger tries to make a stark campaign issue out of Bush's alleged refusal to admit to mistakes, asserting the decision "has come to look far riskier than it did in the flush of handing Iraq back to Iraqis….Bush's decision to hang tough has echoes of the strategy used by another president from Texas. In the 1968 campaign, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey began edging back from the Johnson Administration's plan to admit no fault with its policy in Vietnam."

• October 12 -- Bullying, Brazen Bush?
"Challenging Rest of the World With a New Order" parrots the usual charges of Bush the unilateralist: "It is a characterization of Mr. Bush's foreign policy style often heard around the world: bullying, unreceptive, brazen. The result, critics of this administration contend, has been a disastrous loss of international support, damage to American credibility, the sullying of America's image and a devastating war that has already taken more than 1,000 American lives."

• October 11 -- Inconvenient Victory for Pro-War Ally in Australia?
The Times plays down a pro-war Bush ally's victory in the Australian election -- but the defeat of Spain's pro-war PM in March was a front-page "Blow to Bush."

• October 11 -- Pity the Put-Upon French in Oil-for-Food Scandal
Steven Weisman looks at the U.N. scandal involving French involvement in the corrupt oil-for-food program as yet another Bush failure of diplomacy: "The Bush administration's handling this week of a report on Saddam Hussein's attempts to purchase weapons and buy influence has angered French officials and set back a year of American efforts to repair the rupture caused by the Iraq war, French and other European officials said Friday."

• October 8 -- Bush's Main Rationale for War Has "Unraveled"
"Mr. Kerry, emboldened by the report's unraveling of the administration's main rationale for going to war, shot back with his sharpest indictment yet…."

• October 7 -- Bush "Out of Touch" With Iraq Realities?
Piling on Bush's debate performance and setting up Democratic talking points.

• October 7 -- "Prewar Assertions…Bore No Resemblance to the Truth."
Toning down Douglas Jehl's story on Iraq before it hit print?

• October 4 -- Kerry Doesn’t Flip Flop, He Just "Changes His Emphasis"
Kerry's not a flip-flopper, he just emphasizes different things at different times: "Concerning Iraq, a review of Mr. Kerry's public statements found that his position had been quite consistent. But as the politics changed, Mr. Kerry repeatedly changed his emphasis."

• October 1 -- Kerry Defies GOP's "Worst Caricatures"
Todd Purdum argues Kerry "established himself" in the first presidential debate: "He may well have struck undecided voters as not much like the Republicans' worst caricatures. He spoke plainly, politely, but did not shrink from direct and pointed criticism of Mr. Bush's policies."

• September 30 -- Seymour Bias in the Book Section
Michiko Kakutani praises left-wing muckraker Seymour Hersh's new book on Iraq and summarizes the current "conventional wisdom" on the war: "…a group of conservative, utopian civilians dominated thinking about Iraq at the Pentagon."

• September 30 -- Bush Admin Called Critics "Unpatriotic"…When, Exactly?
The Times editorializes on a Tony Blair speech defending the Iraq war: "…at least the words 'apologize' and 'wrong' were put on record, and his critics were not called unpatriotic."

• September 29 -- Putting Blair in a Box Over Iraq
A Times headline writer and reporter characterize the Iraq war as something for Tony Blair to apologize for.

• September 28 -- Tommy Franks' Book Sounds "Scripted By Fox News"
Editor Michael Newman takes on Gen. Tommy Franks' book and says some of it sounds scripted by Fox News (at the Times, that's an insult).

• September 28 -- Clam Up About Iraq, Cheney
The Times seems to want Dick Cheney to stop talking about all that scary terror stuff: "But these advance workers could not control what Mr. Cheney said or predict that his dark message would be out of sync with what many in his ardently supportive audience wanted to hear: his stand on domestic social issues."

• September 28 -- Skipping Ted Kennedy's Incendiary Claims
The Times covers an "acerbic" Ted Kennedy speech but leaves out the part where Kennedy claims Bush has made a "nuclear 9/11" in the U.S. more likely.

• September 27 -- Bush's "Un-American" Campaign
"President Bush and his surrogates are taking their re-election campaign into dangerous territory" is the baleful opening sentence of a Times editorial, "An Un-American Way to Campaign."

• September 27 -- "Killings Were Rare" in Hussein's Iraq?
Alex Berenson misses a major point: "Before the fall of Saddam Hussein's government….Killings were rare, and gun violence rarer still, a testament to the monopoly that Mr. Hussein held on the use of force." What of Saddam's prisons and mass graves?

• September 24 -- Harassing Halliburton
The Times is still harassing Halliburton: "Controversy is nothing new for the company, which was run by Vice President Dick Cheney for five years until 2000."

• September 23 -- A Sympathetic Hearing for an Extreme Bush Hater
The paper's "Public Lives" profile offers more anti-Bush ammo.

• September 17 -- Why Should Kerry Have to Denounce Moveon.org Ad?
The Times lets Kerry off the hook regarding a campaign ad from the left-wing Moveon.org--yet the Times repeatedly linked Bush to ads from the Swift Boat Veterans and insisted Bush denounce them.

• September 15 -- Bush-Blair's "Headlong Rush" to War?
Reviewing a book on Tony Blair, Alan Cowell characterizes Bush and Blair as rushing to war in Iraq and leaves out vital information about a BBC report accusing the government of exaggerating the Hussein threat.

• September 14 -- Anti-War Play "Not Half as Scary as the Real Thing"
Brantley finds the vision of Bush provided by an anti-war play in London disturbing: "But an alarming, unyielding centeredness gradually reveals itself, suggesting that Mr. Bush has found in his born-again Christianity something akin to the divine right of kings."

• September 13 -- Kerry Vents to Times Reporter
John Kerry calls David Sanger and vents about Bush.

• September 10 -- "Convincing Case" Made By Left-Wing Paranoids
Anita Gates reviews an obscure left-wing documentary playing in Manhattan's East Village, "Hijacking Catastrophe--9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire," and finds it makes a "convincing case." Its premise: Republicans want to take over the world.

• September 9 -- Marking 1,000 Deaths in Iraq With an Ethnic Angle
Monica Davey tallies the dead in Iraq, including "women and Hispanics."

• August 27 -- Movie Critic's Urban Liberal Smugfest
Stephen Holden files two favorable, angry, indignant reviews of anti-Bush documentaries, one of which mocks pro-war Middle Americans: "Asked to express their opinions about the war in Iraq, the mostly unidentified subjects of this documentary polemic, 'This Ain't No Heartland,' are only too happy to make fools of themselves. Their fundamental ignorance of the facts, compounded by their disinterest in knowing more, doesn't prevent them from expressing strong opinions and conveying misinformation in bad grammar."

• August 25 -- Rummy Trouble on "Eve" of Republican Convention?
Douglas Jehl's front-page story strains to make the just-released Abu Ghraib report a political problem for Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on the "eve of the convention" (still five days away).

• August 23 -- Giving Bush an Art Attack
Three more stories celebrating anti-Bush art.

• August 19 -- Philip Shenon Steams Rice Over 9/11
Philip Shenon puts Condi Rice on the hot plate again: "…[David Kay's] remarks were clearly aimed at her performance and reflected a widespread view among intelligence specialists that Ms. Rice, perhaps Mr. Bush's most trusted aide, and the National Security Council have never been held sufficiently accountable for intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war."

• August 18 -- Bush's "Simple Solutions" Made for a Rough Time In Iraq
David Sanger vouches for John Kerry's "nuanced" position.

• August 16 -- Bush Deregulates As Iraq Burns
Joel Brinkley’s investigation on regulatory policy in the Bush administration takes the liberal line: “Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, says he does not think the administration could have succeeded in rewriting so many environmental rules, for example, if the public's attention had not been focused on national security issues.”

• August 13 -- Times Finally Takes on UN Oil-for-Food Scandal
The long-neglected United Nations oil-for-food scandal makes the Times front page. But will the networks notice?

• August 12 -- "Mocking" Bush Drowns Out Kerry's Foreign Policy "Nuance"
Kerry's admission he would still vote to give Bush war authority invites a David Sanger story with the loaded headline: "For Now, Bush's Mocking Drowns Out Kerry's Nuanced Explanation of His War Vote." Also: Where's the NYT on Kerry and Cambodia?

• July 29 -- You Can Trust Kerry, Says Baghdad Jim
David Johnston and Marc Santora couch criticism of Kerry's shifting war stance as "Republican attacks" and "talking points," while bringing in the dubious Rep. Jim (Bush is a liar) McDermott to defend Kerry.

• July 28 -- Selling John Kerry's Foreign Policy
America's "international standing" "now suffers from the wide perception of American arrogance, dishonesty and ineptitude" because of Iraq, according to reporter Roger Cohen's front-page story.

• July 27 -- LBJ-style 'credibility gap' for Bush?
Michael Oreskes sees an LBJ-style "credibility gap" for Bush.

• July 26 -- Hussein's Downfall "Disillusioning" for Iraqi Artists?
Jeffrey Gettleman looks at Iraqi artists: "The war in Iraq has been especially disillusioning for young Iraqi artists, many of whom believed the American promises of freedom."

• July 23 -- Times Again Tries to Minimize Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
Douglas Jehl insists the final 9/11 report "finds no indication that contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda in the 1990's 'ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship,' a conclusion very different in tone from assertions by Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials." But the report actually goes into significant detail about Iraq-Al Qaeda ties.

• July 23 -- Sandy Berger "Disrupted" Millennium Terror Plot?
After a string of blame-Bush stories in the Times, reporters David Johnston and Douglas Jehl squelch most of the anti-Bush bias in their story on the 9/11 commission's final report. But some misinformation still leaks through.

• July 20 -- With Reporters Bound to Baghdad, War Reporting Suffers
Reporter Ian Fisher speaks candidly about the shortcomings of war reporting and admits we haven't been given a full picture of what's going on in Iraq.

• July 19 -- Failing to Own Up to Joe Wilson's Credibility Collapse
When will the NYT admit its favorite anti-war horse has come up lame?

• July 16 -- Ozzy Osbourne's "Shrewd" Politics: Bush = Hitler
Ben Ratliff reviews the troubled Ozzfest concert tour and notes Ozzy Osbourne's "shrewd" use of video comparing Bush to Hitler, while warily noting the "bellicose enthusiasm" of some pro-war rockers.

• July 16 -- "Fed Up" Iraqis "Dreaming of Getting Out"
The front page passes on another negative look from Somini Sengupta about post-Hussein Iraq: "Jobless, rattled, fed up, Iraqis are dreaming of getting out." But some are actually trying to get back in.

• July 16 -- More Mea Culpas: Forgive Us for Thinking Iraq Had WMD
Continuing to apologize for believing the Bush administration too much on Iraq (?), the Times issues a surprising lead editorial apologizing for thinking, like everyone else, that Saddam had WMD.

• July 15 -- Bush Right on Uranium, but Marquis Misses the Scoop
Christopher Marquis covers the British report on problems with prewar intelligence but misses a big part of the story validating Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was shopping around for uranium.

• July 14 -- Ignoring Sen. Rockefeller's WMD Hypocrisy
It wasn't just Bush saying Hussein had WMD: So did Democratic Sen. John Rockefeller. But David Johnston's story on the Senate intelligence report ignores that while letting Rockefeller criticize Bush for making statements similar to ones from Rockefeller himself.

• July 14 -- Times (Finally) Tackles Joseph Wilson
At last, the Times broaches the lost credibility of its former anti-war favorite, Amb. Joseph Wilson of uranium and Niger fame--but shuns the heart of the issue.

• July 12 -- Still Ignoring the 9/11 Commissioners
Philip Shenon's story on the 9/11 commission's upcoming final report again insists the commission undermines White House arguments about a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda--despite what the cochairmen of the commission say.

• July 12 -- Say It Ain't So, Joe (Wilson)
The Senate intelligence report has new insight on what the U.S. knew about Saddam Hussein's attempt to acquire uranium from Africa--and Ambassador Joseph Wilson's lack of credibility. But the Times, which boosted Wilson, glosses over the finding. Not so the Washington Post.

• July 9 -- The "Repressive," "Authoritarian" Iraqi Chief--Iyad Allawi?
A lead editorial describes an Iraqi strongman with "authoritarian tendencies" and "repressive reflexes." Former dictator Saddam Hussein? No--current prime minister Iyad Allawi.

• July 8 -- "America's Longest, Deadliest Sustained Conflict Since Vietnam"
Monica Davey files a baleful report on military fatalities. After the obligatory Vietnam reference, she notes: "While violence has escalated in Iraq through days of uncertainty…." Yet military deaths have been in decline for two months.

• July 7 -- Have I Mentioned Abu Ghraib This Week?

• July 6 -- The Times Gets Another Military Matter All Wrong
The lead editorial opens: "The Pentagon's decision to press 5,600 honorably discharged soldiers back into service, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the latest example of President Bush's refusal to face the true costs of pre-emptive war." But the Times has it wrong.

• July 6 -- Richard Berke's Turkey of an Anecdote
Washington Editor Richard Berke cites an anti-Bush myth as fact: "There are also the manufactured surprises, like Mr. Bush's cloak-and-dagger Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad, which drew praise even from Democrats. (The public relations bonanza fizzled after the press reported that Mr. Bush had posed with a mouth-watering--but fake--turkey.)"

• July 2 -- Iraqi Ambivalence Over "Former President" Hussein
Dexter Filkins' front-page story on Iraqi reaction to Hussein on trial focuses on Iraqi ambivalence over their "former president": "In that way, they said, Mr. Hussein looms like a father over an abused son. He may be a brutal man, the Iraqis said, but he is a father still."

• July 2 -- NYT's John Burns Faces Down Hussein
Reporter John Burns, one of the few journalists who succeeded in conveying the nature of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, files a flavorful piece on the opening proceedings against Hussein and other high-ranking officials of Iraq's fallen dictatorship.

• July 1 -- U.S. "Transfer-by-Stealth" in Iraq
Neil MacFarquhar summarizes the Arab's world view on Iraqi sovereignty: "Some, however, jeered at the United States for having created a false facade of Iraqi control. Many observers mocked the United States for its transfer-by-stealth."

• June 30 -- The Times' Power Failure In Iraq
A front-page story cites complaints from upscale Baghdad residents about electricity shortages. But they fail to note power is now distributed more fairly around the country and no longer favors Saddam-blessed Baghdad.

• June 29 -- Iraqi Sovereignty and…U.S. Fatalities
Dexter Filkins’ lead story on the transfer of Iraqi sovereignty makes sure to include the U.S. death toll.

• June 29 -- Sanger Still Singing Blues on Bush and Iraq
Reporter David Sanger never hides his doubts about Bush and Iraq: “The so-far fruitless search for unconventional weapons--the primary justification for invading Iraq--undermined his credibility, making what Mr. Bush described as a war of necessity appear to have been one of choice.”

• June 28 -- In Iraq, "Resistance" vs. U.S. Soldiers and "Collaborators"
Reporter Edward Wong describes the Iraqis killing U.S. soldiers as a popular "insurgency" and a "resistance" force, and calls Iraqis helping U.S. troops "collaborators."

• June 28 -- "Everyone Lives In Fear" Now That Saddam's Gone
Somini Sengupta files a story on girls living in fear in Iraq--fear that has increased with the fall of Saddam Hussein: "Everyone lives in fear….Fear eats at everyone here, but in a conservative society where daughters are already governed by stricter rules than sons, adolescent girls find themselves particularly vulnerable." Apparently no one was "fearful" under Saddam.

• June 25 -- Now They Tell Us: NYT Confirms Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
Thom Shanker has a scoop supporting the Bush administration's contention that there were in fact ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq (no matter what the paper's previous headlines have implied). But why didn't they tell us last week?

• June 24 -- South Korea "Anti-Iraqi" for Anger Over Beheading?
Reporter James Brooke reviews reaction in Seoul to the killing of a South Korean hostage in Iraq, including demonstrations against sending more troops to Iraq. But he also notes: "An unexpected reaction was Wednesday's wave of anti-Muslim and anti-Iraqi sentiment." What's "anti-Muslim and anti-Iraqi" about Koreans wanting revenge for the gruesome killing of their countryman?

• June 22 -- Could Bush & Co. Have "Foreseen" 9-11?
Douglas Jehl again argues the Bush administration missed clues to the WTC attack.

• June 21 -- Pulling Down Pro-War Blair
Foreign correspondent Patrick Tyler's dispatch from London sees a bleak future for Tony Blair: "Iraq thus pulls like the millstone around Mr. Blair's neck…"

• June 21 -- US in Iraq Like Soviets in Afghanistan?
Distortions old and new from reporter Edward Wong in his latest from Baghdad. First he compares the U.S. liberation of Iraq to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, then wrongly claims Bush pressed for war by citing a working relationship between Hussein and Al Qaeda.

• June 21 -- Safire vs. The Times
Columnist William Safire opens with a broadside against the Times' misleading front-page treatment of the 9-11 report, and then takes on the editorial page.

• June 21 -- More Misleading on Iraq-Al Qaeda Ties
Times reporter Tom Zeller challenges liberal conventional wisdom on the idea that the 9/11 report contradicts Bush and Cheney's claims about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda. Will his colleagues ever do the same?

• June 18 -- Jehl Calls Bush Into Question Over 9-11
Douglas Jehl pens a slanted analysis of Bush and the 9-11 report: "…that panel has called into question nearly every aspect of the administration's response to terror, including the idea that Iraq and Al Qaeda were somehow the same foe. Far from a bolt from the blue, the commission has demonstrated over the last 19 months that the Sept. 11 attacks were foreseen, at least in general terms, and might well have been prevented, had it not been for misjudgments, mistakes and glitches, some within the White House."

• June 18 -- Dick Cheney Takes On "Outrageous" NYT
David Sanger and Robin Toner's front-page story is headlined "Bush and Cheney Talk Strongly of Qaeda Links With Hussein." More accurate would have been "Cheney Castigates NYT." Then again, the vice president hasn't been too impressed with Times headlines lately.

• June 17 -- Czech It Out: Times Tries to Squash Al Qaeda-Iraq Link
The NYT has worked overtime to discredit Czech intelligence reports of a meeting in Prague between 9-11 terrorist Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer. James Risen cites the 9-11 report to justify dismissing the allegations: "…the Sept. 11 commission said its investigation had found that the meeting never took place." But the report doesn't--as Risen's own story shows.

• June 17 -- Doubting David Attacks Bush's Iraq Speech
David Sanger reports on a Bush speech and works in his own doubts about Iraq: "Mr. Bush focused on the best news he could find in the 14 days before the handover. He said that thousands of schools had reopened and that electricity had been restored, not mentioning that electricity was being generated far below the levels his own administration set as a goal." But Sanger leaves out a lot.

• June 17 -- Hitting Bush's "Spotty Scorecard" on Iraq Invasion
Richard Stevenson sees trouble for Bush from the 9-11 report: "In questioning the extent of any ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, the commission weakened the already spotty scorecard on Mr. Bush's justifications for sending the military to topple Saddam Hussein."

• June 17 -- Bush's "Dishonest" War Efforts
An editorial on the 9-11 interim report begins: "It's hard to imagine how the commission investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks could have put it more clearly yesterday: there was never any evidence of a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda, between Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11." The report actually confirms a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda, but that doesn't stop the editorial page from calling Bush dishonest.

• June 17 -- The 9-11 Report: Overreaching to Blame Bush
Philip Shenon and Christopher Marquis take the front page for the first in a series of blame-Bush stories in the wake of the 9-11 commission's report: "The staff of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks sharply contradicted one of President Bush's central justifications for the Iraq war, reporting on Wednesday that there did not appear to have been a 'collaborative relationship' between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein."

• June 15 -- Swiping at Cheney from Baghdad
In the middle of Edward Wong's story from Baghdad about the insistence by some groups that Saddam Hussein be charged with a crime, he takes a detour to Florida to critique a Dick Cheney speech.

• June 14 -- More (Power) Failure In Iraq
James Glanz's front-page story on electricity shortages in Iraq takes a strident tone, claiming Allied failures have "damaged the occupation's efforts to foster stability and good will among a populace already traumatized by the failure to guarantee their security." As if security was guaranteed under Saddam.

• June 14 -- A Late Attack on the War in Iraq
A front-page story by Douglas Jehl and Eric Schmitt, "Errors Are Seen In Early Attacks On Iraqi Leaders," comes courtesy of the left-wing anti-war group Human Rights Watch--and unaccompanied by military knowledge, according to critics.

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, at the Movies
There's no Abu Ghraib movie out yet, but movie critic Steven Holden wastes no time bringing it up: "Arriving right on the heels of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has a new, uncomfortable resonance for those who habitually regard the United States as remaining above the moral fray."

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, on the Tube
The Times keeps Abu Ghraib in the news with a story about a commercial condemning the Abu Ghraib prison abuse, made by "spiritual leaders from different faiths" who all turn out to be liberals.

• June 10 -- Locking Up the Abu Ghraib Offenders
Abu Ghraib month continues on the Times op-ed page, stacked with three op-eds on the prison abuse scandal, two of which advocate a rounding up of offenders.

• June 9 -- News Flash: More Violence to Come in Iraq
Baghdad-based Edward Wong offers yet another gloomy promise of more violence to come: "With summerlike heat settling in and American officials predicting that violence will almost certainly increase before the full empowerment of the country's interim government on June 30…." Also "Italy Rejoices at News." But what news?

• June 9 -- Casualties Rise, War Support Falling
Katharine Seelye covers the political import of governors attending funerals of soldiers from their home states: "In all cases, the governors are feeling their way, a delicate task as casualties rise and, polls show, support for the war falls." Predictably, the story works in criticism of Bush for failing to attend soldiers' funerals.

• June 9 -- Abu Ghraib: First like My Lai, Now Like the Nazis?
First the Times compared Abu Ghraib to the Vietnam massacre at My Lai. Now they're upping the ante: "While nudity as a disciplinary or coercive tool may be especially objectionable to Muslims, they are hardly the only victims of the practice. Soldiers in Nazi Germany paraded naked prisoners in daylight…."

• June 9 -- Laying Blame for Abu Ghraib on Bush
A Times lead editorial, "The Roots of Abu Ghraib," goes all out to link Bush to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse: "Each new revelation makes it more clear that the inhumanity at Abu Ghraib grew out of a morally dubious culture of legal expediency and a disregard for normal behavior fostered at the top of this administration."

• June 8 -- The Iraq War: Definitely Not Like D-Day, Could Be Vietnam
Sunday's lead editorial, "June 6, 1944," is a ham-handed attempt at subtly suggesting that no matter what Bush may say, the war in Iraq has no parallels with D-Day.

• June 4 -- "Ludicrous Visions" of US Troops Showered With Flowers?
An editorial on George Tenet's resignation slams "one of the more ludicrous visions offered by Mr. Rumsfeld's team, like the one of grateful Iraqis showering American soldiers with flowers." Yet the paper's own reporting shows that "ludicrous vision" was absolutely accurate.

• June 4 -- Sanger's Thesaurus
David Sanger's analysis of the surprise resignation of C.I.A. Director George Tenet claims Bush sold the war in Iraq as an "immediate necessity." Hey, what happened to "imminent threat?"

• June 3 -- Dexter Filkins' "Heavy Hand" in Iraq
Filkins finds an adjective he likes.

• June 3 -- Anti-War Party Brewing in South Dakota? Hardly
Stephen Kinzer's report on a special House election in South Dakota relays pro-Dem, anti-war spin after finding a whopping nine people there who disapprove of Bush's war policies.

• June 2 -- Wong's "Illegitimate" Iraqi Government
Edward Wong's dispatch from Baghdad features another gloomy prediction of violent attacks to come on the new Iraqi government, "which many Iraqis view as an illegitimate body."

• June 2 -- Memorial Day In Abu Ghraib
Shaila Dewan's Tuesday story marks Memorial Day in Powell, Wyoming--via Abu Ghraib.

• June 2 -- Nice Speech, Rumsfeld -- But What About Abu Ghraib?
Marc Santora covers Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's commencement speech at West Point and shoehorns in this out-of-nowhere reference: "The speech, which made no mention of the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, drew polite applause."

• June 1 -- Reading Minds In Baghdad
Warren Hoge and Steven Weisman, reading minds in Baghdad: "After turning to the United Nations to shore up its failing effort to fashion a new government in Baghdad, the United States ended up Friday with a choice for prime minister certain to be seen more as an American candidate than one of the United Nations or the Iraqis themselves."

• June 1 -- Back to Abu Ghraib
All roads lead back to Abu Ghraib at the NYT.

• May 28 -- This Should Ease Tensions In Iraq
"Iraqi officials, seen by some Iraqis as puppets of foreign governments, will almost certainly continue to be the targets of assassination attempts after that date." -- From a May 28 report from Baghdad by Edward Wong and Christine Hauser.

• May 27 -- Abu Ghraib "Abuse" Under Both U.S. and Saddam
Elisabeth Bumiller's report on Bush's call to raze the Abu Ghraib prison likens the abuse of Iraqis by U.S. soldiers to the torture and death practiced there by Saddam Hussein.

• May 27 -- More Reminders of Abu Ghraib
The release of transcripts from Henry Kissinger leads to a seemingly inevitable Abu Ghraib reference.

• May 26 -- The Times' WMD Mea Culpa
The Times engages in some unusual self-criticism in a long Editor's Note, accusing itself of excessive gullibility regarding claims of WMD in Iraq. Such self-criticism should be encouraged. But why stop there?

• May 25 -- More on Bush the Bubble Boy
The theme of Bush as out-of-touch bubble boy returns, courtesy of Elisabeth Bumiller: "Inside the bubble, what is Mr. Bush's level of concern about the turmoil in Iraq? Does he think that the sunny predictions of Vice President Dick Cheney and the deputy defense secretary, Paul D. Wolfowitz, were all wrong? Does he blame them, or himself?"

• May 25 -- Does Bush Get Iraq?
In Richard Stevenson's bleak analysis of Bush's Monday night speech on Iraq, he hints Bush still doesn't understand how "violence and chaos" is threatening to engulf the country

• May 25 -- Slanted "Lines of Loyalty" on Bush's Iraq Speech
Carl Hulse's review of Bush's prime-time address on Iraq is titled "Distinct Views of Iraq Speech Follow Lines of Loyalty." Hulse's story follows the same lines, slanting responses toward the Democratic side.

• May 24 -- Kristof's Anti-War "Scream" Fest
Nicholas Kristof sticks it to Bush and Rumsfeld: "Donald Rumsfeld has presided over the most foolish conflict since the War of Jenkins' Ear in the 18th century, and he is at the top of a military force that tortured prisoners. " Then he lashes out at the "neo-con ideologues who screamed for war."

• May 24 -- Rich Pets Michael Moore's "Goat"
Frank Rich praises left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11," taking Moore's bad-faith assumptions on faith and chortling over Moore's cheap-shot techniques that make Bushies look dumb.

• May 24 -- Susan Sontag, the Times' Anti-American Essayist
The Sunday magazine gives its front page over to radical intellectual Susan Sontag's on Abu Ghraib, the same person who wrote after 9-11: "Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?"

• May 20 -- Bush Almost Got Me Kidnapped.
Middle East reporter James Bennet survives an attempted kidnapping in the Gaza Strip--and suggests Bush policy could be to blame: "Anger at Americans has been building here for three years over the Bush administration's perceived tilt toward Israel, the occupation of Iraq and, most recently, images of prisoner abuse in Iraq."

• May 19 -- Flooding the Zone on Abu Ghraib
The Washingtonian recently crowned the Washington Post the clear winner over the New York Times for comprehensive coverage of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse story. As if making up for lost time, Wednesday's NYT becomes Abu Ghraib central.

• May 19 -- Sarin? So What
An editorial soft-pedals the finding of deadly sarin gas in Iraq and pooh-poohs any possibility that it confirms Allied fears of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction: "If laboratory tests confirm the presence of sarin, that finding may not tell us much about whether Saddam Hussein retained a hidden chemical arsenal after supposedly destroying it." Columnist William Safire thinks differently.

• May 18 -- Krugman Morphs Into Anti-War Kucinich
Columnist Paul Krugman joins the left-wing cut-and-run brigade in Iraq: "The cries of 'stay the course' are getting fainter, while the calls for a quick exit are growing….lost prestige is better than ruin."

• May 18 -- Celebrating Another "Independent" Republican (and Bush Critic)
Carl Hulse lauds Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, another Republican with an "independent streak" (Times' code meaning "often sides with Democrats").

• May 17 -- Jessica Lynch Gone Bad
First it was Abu Ghraib and My Lai: Now Frank Rich is comparing Abu Ghraib abuser Lynndie England to rescued POW Jessica Lynch and warns of "our country's descent into the gulag."

• May 13 -- U.S. "High-Handed and Arrogant"
Reporter Steven Weisman pours skepticism all over Bush's Middle East proposals.

• May 11 -- Abu Ghraib Photos Remind Timesman of Vietnam
David Sanger's Monday news analysis, "U.S. Must Find A Way to Move Past the Images," examines a horrific photo from Abu Ghraib prison and is reminded (of course) of Vietnam.

• May 11 -- Abu Ghraib = My Lai, Again
Now it's Krugman's turn.

• May 10 -- Rumsfeld in the Balance
Elisabeth Bumiller sets up the gallows for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "[Senator Lindsey] Graham had asked Mr. Rumsfeld a pivotal question: Could the greatly diminished prosecutor of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still have the power to carry out his duties?" But that "greatly diminished" part didn't come from Graham.

• May 10 -- Abuse in U.S. Prisons "Similar" to Abu Ghraib
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield provides a factually thin stew of liberal anti-prison anecdotes: "Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates."

• May 10 -- Abu Ghraib = My Lai?
Frank Rich compares the abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

• May 6 -- Abu Ghraib Word Games
Reporter Dexter Filkins suggested that now that the Americans run the prison at Abu Ghraib, it is “now a byword for inmate abuse.” Three days before, the Times editorial board found it was a “byword for torture under Saddam Hussein.”

• May 3 -- The “Nonpolitical” Democratic Response?
On both Saturday and Sunday, the Times plugged “nonpolitical” National Guardsman Paul Rieckhoff as he slammed President Bush in the Democratic response to the President’s weekly radio address.

• May 3 -- Risen’s Gross Sex-Abuse Story
As highlighted by the Drudge Report, Times reporter James Risen publicized graphic claims of American soldiers requiring Iraqi prisoners to masturbate and ejaculate at the Abu Ghraib prison, but last summer, Times reporter Amy Waldman barely mentioned that Abu Ghraib was best known for its infamous prison under Saddam Hussein.

• April 30 -- Herbert: America Slaughters and Maims the Innocent
Times columnist Bob Herbert declared the “senseless war” in Iraq is just like Vietnam, and once again we’ve “killed or maimed thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, including women and children.”

• April 22 -- US Troops "Might-Makes-Right Rule" Like Hussein's?
Edward Wong files from Baghdad: "The invasion of Falluja has shattered the remaining hope of many of those Iraqis who thought the Americans might be able to free the country from might-makes-right rule, which has shadowed this region from the days of the Ottoman Empire to British colonial rule to Mr. Hussein."

• April 19 -- Spanish Withdrawal "Serious Setback" In Iraq
In her story on Spain's withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Marlise Simons twice repeats it's a "serious setback" for the U.S. But after a year of Times complaints about Bush's "unilateral" efforts in Iraq, how can withdrawal of Spanish soldiers be such a setback?

• April 15 -- Bringing the Dead Home, and to the Front Page
In a first, the Times front page features photos of soldiers' coffins from Iraq, accompanying a long profile of how grieving families feel about the war.

• April 14 -- Anti-U.S. Anecdotes From an Anti-War Activist
Christine Hauser relays anecdotes of Iraqi ambulances shot at during the U.S. offensive in Falluja and runs comments from one Jo Wilding, who Hauser calls a medical volunteer but is an anti-war activist who has said of the U.S. occupation: "Shooting at women and children who are fleeing their homes is right?"

• April 14 -- Why Won't Bush Apologize for 9/11?
At Bush's press conference Elisabeth Bumiller demanded: "Do you feel any sense of personal responsibility for September 11th?"

• April 14 -- "Political Peril" for Bush?
David Sanger's front-page analysis of Bush's Tuesday-night press conference raises the stakes for Bush: "Facing a moment of political peril unlike any in the more than one thousand days of his presidency…." Sanger also frets over Bush's refusal to admit mistakes.

• April 12 -- The American-Killing Iraqi "Resistance"
Jeffrey Gettleman paints Iraq as "collapsing into chaos" and uses the term "freedom fighters" in a description of anti-American Iraqis willing to kill Americans.

• April 9 -- Fiery in Cairo
Neil MacFarquhar files from Cairo on Arab reaction to the rebellion in Iraq: "Many commentators drew parallels between Israeli repression in the occupied territories--and its failure to pacify the Palestinians after more than three decades--and United States actions in Iraq."

• April 8 -- Send Me No Flowers
In an editorial marking the one-year anniversary of the Iraq war, the Times claimed the "administration…seemed to believe its own talk about American soldiers' being greeted with flowers as an army of liberation." But the Times itself says that they were.

• April 8 -- As St. Johnsbury Goes…So Goes St. Johnsbury
With the recent upsurge of fighting and fatalities in Iraq, the Times runs a timely compendium of citizens feeling less confident about Bush and the war, featuring the results of an online poll from....the Caledonian-Record newspaper of St. Johnsbury, Vermont?

• April 2 -- Rumsfeld's "Glass House"
Reviewing a documentary on the controversial Arab network Al Jazeera, A.O. Scott likens its anti-Americanism to remarks by Donald Rumsfeld, as if both are culpable in spreading propaganda.

• April 2 -- Terror Reactions: "Upbeat" Bush, Somber Clinton
David Sanger writes: "It can be a bit jarring to move from the images of grisly American deaths to the invariably upbeat message of the Bush campaign…The contrast with some of his predecessors is notable….when American soldiers were killed in Somalia in an incident that many recalled on seeing the Falluja photographs, President Clinton declared that he was sending reinforcements." One contrast Sanger failed to mention--Clinton never visited the WTC after the 1993 terror attack.

• April 1 -- New Deaths a Turning Point In Iraq Opinion?
Monica Davey's story on the brutal killings of Americans in Iraq wonders if the death toll has become too much for Americans to bear: "…some said the number of casualties had passed painfully out of control."

• April 1 -- Two Standards on Tasteless Photos
The Times hit Bush for campaign ads showing brief clips of 9-11. But Thursday's front page proves it has no compunction against prominently displaying far more gruesome photos: The burned bodies of American civilians hanging from a bridge after an attack in Iraq.

• March 31 -- Bumiller Hits Press Part in "Spectacular Selling" of Iraq War
White House reporter Elisabeth Bumiller notes the administration's "unparalleled" political skills "helped them sell the American public on the war in Iraq...a spectacular selling job, of which I'm sorry to say the press played a part."

• March 22 -- The Times Passes Up Counting Up Anti-War Protesters
“It is virtually impossible to guess the size of crowds without wading into a swamp of politics,” writes Alan Feuer on a protest marking the first anniversary of the Iraq war. The Times didn’t find it quite so hard to make crowd estimates last year, unearthing 5,000 anti-war protesters in Times Square when other news organizations only found 300.

• March 22 -- Francisco Franco Is Still Dead...Times Bias Is Still Disgraceful
If Elaine Sciolino’s consistently hostile reporting on Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar wasn’t enough, she compares him to Spain’s former fascist dictator General Francisco Franco.

• March 17 -- Offering the (In)Complete Story from Iraq
Jeffrey Gettleman's front-page story uses a photo of a blinded Iraqi boy as an emotional launching point for a piece on the accidental deaths of civilians during the Iraqi war. But what of the civilians who were tortured and killed during Saddam Hussein's 24-year thugocracy, ended by the Bush administration?

• March 15 -- Pain in Spain for Bush
After the defeat of Spain's Bush-allied party, David Sanger's analysis carries this blunt headline: "Blow to Bush: Ally Rejected--Voters Clearly Reiterate Opposition to Iraq War." Sanger, who rarely misses a chance to portray Bush's unpopularity abroad over Iraq, writes up the results as an "electoral rebuke" to Bush.

• March 11 -- "Strident" Spanish PM "Dragged His Country" Into War
Can the Times ever forgive European leaders who backed Bush in Iraq?

• March 10 -- Twisted Terror Priorities at the Times
The Times' twisted priorities on the war on terror: Possible miscalculations by the Bush administration get top-shelf treatment, while potential terrorist threats are either played down or (in the case of Jehl's story) not mentioned at all.

• March 8 -- There They Go Again
A Times editorial resurrects the old "imminent threat" canard.

• March 8 -- Muting the Good News In Iraq?
A weekend story on the initial botched attempt to sign a constitution in Iraq called it a blow to the U.S. and "a major embarrassment." Come Monday, the constitution was on its way to passage. How did the Times treat the turnaround?

• March 1 -- Haitian Divorce
While an editorial criticizes Bush for being too slow to intervene in Haiti, a Tim Weiner story from Port-au-Prince features criticism of Bush for having intervened at all.

• February 18 -- The Bushies vs. Peace
Margo Jefferson reviews a production of socialist Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play "Mother Courage and Her Children" and suggests it has contemporary resonance: "…an army officer complains, 'Peace is one big waste of equipment.' These words sound contemporary."

• February 18 -- "Balanced" Al Jazeera?
A story on the Arab news network Al Jazeera sports this interesting headline: "For Al Jazeera, Balanced Coverage Frequently Leaves No Side Happy." That's the same "balanced" network whose Baghdad reporter once said: 'We were targeted because the Americans don't want the world to see the crimes they are committing against the Iraqi people.'"

• February 18 -- Still Pushing the Guard Non-Story
Richard Stevenson trails Bush to Louisiana and twice brings up the National Guard issue.

• February 17 -- "Mounting War Casualties" Put Spotlight on Bush's Guard Record
David Barstow makes a shaky link between casualties in Iraq and questions on Bush's Guard service: "...with Iraq casualties mounting, with angry Democrats coalescing behind a decorated Vietnam veteran and with credibility questions dogging Mr. Bush, the broad-brush defense has been abandoned."

• February 16 -- Did Sanctions Ruin Iraqi Hospitals?
Jeffrey Gettleman holds international sanctions partly to blame for the ruinous state of Iraq's hospitals. Iraqi doctors would disagree.

• February 12 -- Old Anti-Bush Whine in New Bottle
The Times squeezes 1,050-words out of old allegations about Bush's National Guard service from a source who last year wrote on Iraq: "I feel sickness that today another massive group of people, held worthless by this anointed king, will be trampled upon like grapes. But their blood will not be rendered into wine."

• February 11 -- Bush's "Blows to American Credibility"
Does the U.S. have a credibility problem? Steven Weisman hammers the question home in a story with this teaser: "Credibility tarnished, Washington labors on to halt banned arms."

• February 9 -- Kerry's Iraq Omission
Analyzing Bush's "Meet the Press" performance, Elisabeth Bumiller quotes Sen. John Kerry: "President Bush repeatedly told the American people that Saddam Hussein 'has got chemical weapons.'" Bumiller could have pointed out that Kerry said the same thing in 2002.

• February 2 -- The "Imminent" Patrick Tyler
Patrick Tyler goes to town on Bush and Blair claims of the "imminent threat" Saddam Hussein allegedly posed. But Bush never actually used the term.

• January 28 -- No One to Blame but Bush?
David Sanger pens "Bush Backs Away From His Claims About Iraq Arms," but fails to note other countries believed the same thing about Iraq--and so did John Kerry.

• January 27 -- Beware of Bush Unbound
A rundown of seven anti-Bush books makes the cover of the Times Book Review: "Three years into the presidency of George W. Bush, many people here and abroad fear and loathe our country, its power, its policies, its pride. Is America an evil empire?"

• January 26 -- Another Vietnam Rerun from Frank Rich
Is Iraq another Vietnam? Frank Rich sees parallels--and brings up the "imminent threat" canard to boot.

• January 22 -- Douglas Jehl's Dubious CIA Sources
Douglas Jehl pumps up the import of a group of retired CIA agents pressing Congress for an inquiry into Valerie Plame, but leaves out the left-wing anti-war connections of some members.

• January 21 -- Bush "Rudely Ignoring" U.N Procedures
An editorial rips into Bush for going to war "without reliable intelligence, real international backing, legitimate United Nations authority or serious postwar planning," then hits him for being rude to the UN.

• January 16 -- Bush's Election-Year Ploy to Help Iraq
The Times puts its best cynical spin on a U.S. move to press the U.N. for action in Iraq: "Kofi Annan is said to be highly reluctant to give his blessing to what is widely seen as a jerry-built process in effect concocted to let the United States hand over sovereignty to Iraq by June 30, as the American elections get under way."

• January 14 -- Iraq "Staggers" Through Another Hussein-Free Day
The mission in Iraq has gone to hell since Saddam's capture, judging by Edward Wong: "A month after Saddam Hussein was pulled from his spider hole, and with the transfer of sovereignty looming, Iraq staggered through another disturbing day of violence and instability."

• January 14 -- Times Book Critic Not Mum On Frum
Michiko Kakutani takes on the recent volume by conservative hawks David Frum and Richard Perle: "It is a screed….all the subtlety of a pit bull on steroids…smug, shrill and deliberately provocative….macho posturing…bullying tone and often specious reasoning." She didn't like Frum's last book much, either.

• January 9 -- Qaddafi's Non-Coerced Conversion?
Patrick Tyler notes "something seems to have come over" Libyan strongman Colonel Qaddafi--but shrinks from crediting Bush's war conduct for the dictator's abrupt change of heart.

• January 2 -- The U.S. vs. the U.N--Guess Which Side the Times Takes?
Amidst a laundry list of alleged Bush sins against internationalism, a Times editorial defends the United Nations against the "unilateral" U.S. and laments "Washington's rush to invade" Iraq.

• January 2 -- Saddam's Capture: OK, But What About Those Funerals?
Editor Richard Berke puts the best anti-Bush spin on the good news out of Iraq: "But before Saddam was caught, not long ago, we were talking about casualties. We were talking about a situation where the president did not want to go to the funerals of a lot of the--the--the killed soldiers in Iraq, because why bring attention to the tragedy of--that was going on day after day there."

• December 30 -- Bias By the Letters
"Q is also for quagmire..."

• December 19 -- Was Hussein's Capture a Good Thing? Chris Hedges
Anti-war reporter Chris Hedges greets Hussein's capture with a sniff: "I don't think the resistance movement in Iraq has very much to do with Saddam Hussein at all. And I think it obscures the fundamental issue, which is that Iraqis are chafing against U.S. occupation."

• December 1 8 -- Well Boo-Frickity-Hoo
"Taliban Detainee Is Depressed, Lawyer Says"

• December 18 -- The Times Misfires (Again) on Bush's "Imminent Threat"
The Times puts one of its favorite anti-war myths back in circulation in Richard Stevenson's snidely titled "Remember 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'? For Bush, They Are a Nonissue."

• December 17 -- Open Wide and Say "What?"
Was showing Saddam Hussein's checkup a violation of the Geneva Conventions? Reporter Edward Wong thinks so.

• December 16 -- After Saddam's Capture: Beating Around the Bushes
Todd Purdum personalizes the capture of Saddam Hussein as the Bush family settling scores with an ancient enemy (Dana Carvey is cited). Spying a potential wedge between the Bushes, Purdum takes up Bush Sr.'s side: "There were ample reasons for the first President Bush not to go after Mr. Hussein."

• December 16 -- The First Refuge of a Scoundrel
Accusing Republicans of slandering Democrats as unpatriotic is one of Paul Krugman's favorite pieces of anti-conservative boilerplate, and his latest attempt is particularly strained.

• December 16 -- Joy Already Fading in Iraq
"The joyous bursts of gunfire that echoed throughout parts of Iraq on Sunday are already a distant memory."

• December 15 -- Frank Rich's Exquisite Timing
Columnist Frank Rich equates the war in Iraq with the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy--and truly breaks a leg: "In the final installment, the pre-eminent heavy of the first two parts, the evil wizard Saruman has vanished--as out of sight, if not mind, as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein." Readers who had the TV on that morning knew otherwise.

• December 12 -- Callers Grill Times on Baghdad Protest Blackout
When C-SPAN aired live from NYT's Washington bureau, callers asked bureau reporters and editors about the paper' lack of coverage of Wednesday's anti-terrorist demonstration in Baghdad--a question Times Watch and others have asked.

• December 12 -- Krugman's Latest Conspiracy Refuted--by the Times
Paul Krugman goes conspiratorial about Bush's decision to exclude countries who opposed the Iraq war from the rebuilding process: "Yes, Halliburton is profiteering in Iraq--will apologists finally concede the point, now that a Pentagon audit finds overcharging?" That's a reference to the subject of Times lead story--but the story disputes Krugman's claim.

• December 12 -- Halliburton's Front-Page Non-Scandal
Douglas Jehl's front-page story begins out of breath: "A Pentagon investigation has found evidence that a subsidiary of the politically connected Halliburton Company overcharged the government by as much as $61 million for fuel delivered to Iraq under huge no-bid reconstruction contracts." Not until the ninth paragraph do we get this line, which deflates the story's allegedly scandalous import: "The officials said Halliburton did not appear to have profited from overcharging for fuel."

• December 11 -- No Good News From Baghdad?
Is the Times burying good news from Baghdad? Edward Wong's dispatch at first reads like another round of Baghdad bad news--until the ninth paragraph: " In contrast, a heavily policed march in central Baghdad on Wednesday, organized peacefully by the country's major political parties, drew thousands of Iraqis to protest attacks by guerrilla fighters, which have injured and killed Iraqi civilians as well as occupiers."

• December 10 -- "Destroying the Village" in Iraq
More Iraq as Vietnam in an editorial: "Unwelcome as Vietnam analogies are right now, it's hard to ignore the resemblance to that infamous military comment about having to destroy a village in order to save it."

• December 8 -- Editors Without a Clue
A story called "Rebels Without a Cause or a Web Site" sounds like a profile of some low-tech protest group--but it's about Iraqi guerilla fighters attacking U.S. troops.

• December 5 -- When In Rome, Beat Up On Pro-Bush Berlusconi
Frank Bruni paints Italy's Bush-supporting, pro-war PM as self-congratulatory and gaffe-prone: "[He] spoke energetically and expansively, in soliloquies bereft of self-criticism and brimming with self-congratulation....There was no sense of equivocation in Mr. Berlusconi, whether he was cheering the United States, trumpeting his plans to transform Italy's economy or discussing, without apology, his ever-lengthening string of political gaffes."

• December 2 -- Bush's "Top Gun" Landing a Real Turkey
John Kifner tees off on the photo of Bush holding a Thanksgiving turkey in Baghdad, segueing quickly to another famous Bush image: "The so-called 'Top Gun' landing had clearly been designed as a triumphal image that would play a prominent part in the president's re-election campaign. Instead, it now seems a symbol of the naïve, almost willful, optimism that has marked the administration's plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein."

• December 1 -- Bush in Baghdad: OK, But What About Those Funerals?
Adam Nagourney tosses cold water on Bush's Thanksgiving appearance in Baghdad: "The trip came at a time of rising criticism of the president for not attending the funerals of the returning war dead." Criticism driven by the Times itself.

• November 20 -- A Bush "Setback" and More Nonsense on Niger
David Sanger personalizes the decision of an international nuclear watchdog group as a "setback" for Bush and issues a new version of the old "Uranium from Niger" canard.

• November 20 -- The Times Finally Checks Out Pentagon Memo
After several days, the Times finally weighs in on a story regarding the leaked memo alleging ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

• November 20 -- Iraqi Women Suffering Since Hussein Gone
Nicholas Kristof finds more downside to the liberation of Iraq: " A new report by the U.N. Population Fund offers a devastating portrait of the plight of Iraqi women since the war." Yet the current war isn't even mentioned directly in the actual report.

• November 20 -- Warren Hoge Goes Deep for Anti-War Bias
Warren Hoge's dispatch from London "deeply" exaggerates the unpopularity of the war in Britain.

• November 18 -- Sanger Sings the Blues over Bush in Iraq
David Sanger on Bush and Iraq: Hubris, electoral cynicism and floundering.

• November 18 -- George Bush, Oil Tool
As George Bush prepares to go to London, Sunday's report by Alan Cowell describes in loving detail the European anti-war laundry list of anti-Bush particulars, and even gets Vietnam into the mix.

• November 14 -- With Friends Like These…
Citing Sen. Chuck Hagel, reporters Steven Weisman and Carl Hulse see a potential Republican crackup over Iraq. But Hagel is hardly an administration supporter on Iraq, and the Times knows it.

• November 14 -- Jehl Again Buries Details of Demo Memo
Douglas Jehl again discusses the partisan conflict on the Senate Intelligence panel while leaving out how the panel came to be feuding in the first place--a Democratic memo that shows the Democrats plotting to use the Senate hearings for political gain.

• November 14 -- Warren Hoge's Rogue Attack on Bush
Times correspondent Warren Hoge: "America is now something of a rogue state, a pariah nation….It is quite amazing to think where we were the day after September 11 and how much of that goodwill has been squandered."

• November 12 -- Dead Poets Society Takes Bush on Over Iraq
Adam Cohen salutes World War I poet Wilfred Owen in order to scorn Bush's conduct of the Iraq war: "Owen was right that an honorable approach to war requires both ably leading troops on the battlefield, and reporting honestly what occurs there. The Bush administration, however, is resisting this honorable approach….He avoids mentioning the American dead...”

• November 11 -- Alan Cowell’s Anti-Cheney Conspiracy
Alan Cowell reviews the book “Modern Jihad” and brings up a liberal conspiracy theory regarding Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company: “Ms. Napoleoni draws a startling comparison with the era of the Crusades against Islamic dominance, arguing that economic imperatives propel the war on terrorism in 2003 as much as they did in the 11th and 12th centuries. (Consider the contracts in Iraq awarded to the Halliburton Company and other United States businesses, and she may have a point.)”

• November 11 -- “Right-Wing Bloviators” Pressured “Craven” CBS
Editor Frank Rich notes approvingly that the TV movie on Jessica Lynch portrays the rescued POW “as a lowly pawn of larger, mysterious forces operating in the shadows, whether in Baghdad or Washington” and lambastes “craven” CBS for caving to “right-wing bloviators” on the Reagan miniseries.

• November 7 -- Praise for US Military Prowess? Perish the Thought
Alessandra Stanley likes at least one thing about the TV-docudrama "Saving Jessica Lynch-- there's not too much pro-military stuff: "The filmmakers avoid having to make up details about Private Lynch's ordeal or delivering too jingoistic a paean to American military prowess."

• November 6 -- Jehl Buries Dirty Details of Demo Memo
Douglas Jehl buries the contents of a Democratic intelligence committee memo which suggested using the supposedly bipartisan committee for political advantage during Bush's re-election campaign--and ignores a Democratic senator's fiery criticism of the tactic.

• November 6 -- Giving Saddam a Chance
The Times plays up James Risen's story on Iraq's alleged "back-channel" attempt to avoid war. But a Slate writer says don't get too excited about the Times scoop just yet.

• November 6 -- The Internet Gets Results
Or at least an Editors' Note in the Times.

• November 5 -- GWB = LBJ?
First it was Iraq=Vietnam. Now the Times is trying to turn Bush into LBJ.

• November 4 -- Times Again Knee Deep In the Big Muddy
More "quagmire" at the Times.

• November 4 -- It's Not Vietnam, But It Is
The Times Just Can't Resist: "In the Ranks, Similarities Between Vietnam and Iraq."

• November 4 -- Krugman Cuts off Nethercutt
Columnist Paul Krugman is the latest to pass along a skewed quote from Republican Rep. George Nethercutt.

• October 30 -- Bush's "Radical Conservatism" a Problem in Iraq
Pro-war columnist Thomas Friedman wonders if Bush can succeed in Iraq, given his radical conservatism.

• October 30 -- Dowdy Old Anti-War Talking Points
Columnist Maureen Dowd stumbles through the liberal anti-war litany.

• October 28 -- Krugman on the Defensive
Columnist Paul Krugman gets touchy in print over criticism of his recent column on Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, which even liberals saw as a too-easy dismissal of Mahathir's hateful anti-Jewish remarks.

• October 28 -- "Nostalgia" for Baathist Bombs
A story on the struggles of Iraq's new foreign minister is headlined "Iraq's Foreign Ministry Has a New Chief, but Nostalgia for the Past Lingers." That's a rather broad view of nostalgia, given the story's opening: "Somebody planted a bomb outside the office of the new Iraqi foreign minister two weeks ago, set with a timer to go off when he was at his desk."

• October 24 -- Why the World Still Hates Bush
David Sanger's dispatch from Canberra again features Bush as a despised bubble-boy: "Even some of Mr. Bush's aides concede that Mr. Bush has only begun to discover the gap between the picture of a benign superpower that he sees, and the far more calculating, self-interested, anti-Muslim America the world perceives as he speeds by behind dark windows."

• October 23 -- Bad News in Baghdad
Ian Fisher's Baghdad dispatch is headlined "For Hussein's Ouster, Many Thanks, But Iraqis Are Expecting More." Fisher certainly expects a lot: "With Mr. Hussein still at large, with American soldiers dying here almost every day, with no unconventional weapons found, with America's allies reluctant to help, many supporters now justify the war on the grounds that Iraqis are better off and the nation is on the road to stability."

• October 20 -- David Sanger Remembers the Maine
The Times has often linked the Iraq war with the Vietnam "quagmire," but David Sanger reaches back to the Spanish-American War: "Some of [Bush's] critics have argued that the justification for invading Iraq bore a resemblance to the rationale the United States used to begin that war in 1898, citing evidence, discounted as flimsy, that the battleship Maine had been deliberately blown up in Cuba by Spanish forces."

• October 17 -- The Times Corrects Itself On Niger
The Times catches up with the Washington Post, finally correcting a front-page story that conflated Niger with all of Africa. But they still have a few more to go.

• October 17 -- Maureen Dowd's "Shameless" PR Campaign
Ever since Maureen Dowd's May 14 column (when she used an ellipses to reverse the plain meaning of a Bush quote on Al Qaeda), Web-watchers are reading closely between her lines. Is a correction in order again on her latest bit of Bush-bashing?

• October 15 -- No Liberal Democrats?
David Firestone's latest story on opposition to Bush's aid request for Iraq finds both "conservative" Democrats and Republicans speaking out against it, but no liberals.

• October 14 -- The Post Outclasses the Times
At least one national newspaper recognizes an "obvious mistake" when it makes one.

• October 13 -- More "Parallels" Between Vietnam and Iraq
When the Times reviews a Vietnam documentary, alert readers look for comparisons of Vietnam to Iraq--and critic Stephen Holden doesn't disappoint.

• October 13 -- Cheney Lashes Out
Eric Schmitt's report on a Dick Cheney speech positions the vice president as Bush's heavy, "lashing out" and "ridiculing" critics.

• October 10 -- Bush's Iraq War "Deception"
Alessandra Stanley reviews an Iraq war documentary and repeats liberal disinformation: "White House deception is the real focus of the program, which draws two main conclusions…that the administration twisted the facts to paint Mr. Hussein as an imminent threat." Bush never made such a threat.

• October 10 -- "Authoritarian" Tories vs. "Tolerance"
Warren Hoge files from the Conservative Party conference in Britain: "[The party] is deeply split between a traditional law and order wing known in political shorthand as authoritarians and a group with a more tolerant attitude known as modernizers who preach 'compassionate conservatism.'"

• October 6 -- Blair Cleared, But Times Still Suspicious
Warren Hoge returns with another incomplete telling of Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" controversy, stating "public suspicions, aired during six weeks of hearings this summer, that the government doctored intelligence to win support for an unpopular war." Yet those suspicions rested on a BBC report that has long been discredited.

• September 25 -- Times Skips The Full Teddy
Carl Hulse’s “Democrats Step Up Attacks on Iraq War,” is true to its word: “The increasingly tough tone was first struck by Senator Edward M. Kennedy…who charged the administration with perpetrating a ‘fraud’ with its justification for the war on Iraq.” But Hulse fails to deliver the full paranoid flavor of Kennedy’s anti-Bush animus—Kennedy accuses Bush of making up the Iraqi threat “in Texas” for political advantage, and of bribing other countries to go along.

• September 24 -- Rebuilding Plans for War-Torn America?
David Firestone’s dispatch on Paul Bremer’s Capitol Hill appearance passes on Democratic criticism equating rebuilding in war-torn Iraq to “rebuilding” in the U.S.: “Democratic senators said that the request was probably far smaller than the eventual total would be and that similar rebuilding plans at home were being neglected.”

• September 24 -- Why Won’t Bush Apologize to the UN?
Two Times reporters covering Bush’s UN speech suggest Bush would have come off better had he been more “apologetic” toward the United Nations.

• September 23 -- The Times Marks Its Own “May Day”
May 1, the date Bush declared an end to active military operations in Iraq, and one that lives in infamy at the Times.

• September 23 -- Backhanded Bush Compliment: He’s Now Less Misleading
Richard Stevenson gives out backhanded compliments for what he calls the Bush administration’s recent “increase in straight talk.” Stevenson writes: “By the standards of a White House that insists that nearly everything at all times is proceeding precisely according to plan, and where misjudgment is typically held to be a stranger, the last few weeks have brought a new, unvarnished tone.”

• September 22 -- Their Own Personal Vietnam
A Times editorial leaps into the Big Muddy: “The Bush administration always bristles when people attempt to draw any parallels between the quagmire in Vietnam and the current situation in Iraq.”

• September 22 -- An Anti-Wolfowitz Whopper
Reporter Eric Schmitt’s story on a talk by Paul Wolfowitz includes this whopper: “‘Iraq did have contacts with Al Qaeda,’ Mr. Wolfowitz insisted, momentarily silencing the audience with an accusation even President Bush now says is unsubstantiated." But Bush said last week “There's no question Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties.”

• September 18 -- Bush Chided for Spending Too Much, Not Enough
Bush asks Congress for $87 billion for the war effort, setting off criticism from Democrats that David Firestone helpfully passes on: “Democrats…accused the administration of being stingy at home and generous abroad.”

• September 16 -- Frank Rich: Triumph of a Willful Bush-Hater
Associate editor Frank Rich returns in full rant, calling the recent TV movie on 9-11 “propaganda so untroubled by reality that it's best viewed as a fitting memorial to Leni Riefenstahl.”

• August 20 -- Bruni Bashes Berlusconi
Frank Bruni again takes on Italy’s conservative prime minister, “whose commingling of public and private power is unrivaled in Europe and has prompted questions about whether democracy can truly flourish when one man dominates so much of a country.”

• August 20 -- Times Lets Dems Exploit Grief of Baghdad
Richard Stevenson lets two Democratic candidates take unopposed potshots at Bush over the Baghdad bombing.

• August 14 -- Shielding for Saddam
Adam Liptak takes a chronologically challenged look at Americans who went to Iraq as “human shields” and now face fines, alleging: “Several people involved in the effort said that none of the sites were attacked while human shields were present.” Of course they weren’t: These “shields” left Iraq before the war started!

• August 13 -- Gen. Clark Chides Krugman’s Faulty Quote
Gen. Wesley Clark chides columnist Paul Krugman for inaccurately quoting him regarding a call he received urging him to link 9-11 to Saddam Hussein: “No one from the White House asked me to link Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11.”

• August 11 -- ‘Serious’ Gap in WMD Coverage
The Financial Times ran an op-ed on Iraq’s WMD by Curt Mileikowsky, (former head of Asea's nuclear power division) and Evelyn Sokolowski (former head of the joint analysis group for Sweden's nuclear utilities). The New York Times ran an op-ed on the same subject the same day by…Steve Martin. Yes, that Steve Martin.

• August 8 -- Times Hacks Bob Novak Facts
Douglas Jehl sympathizes with the trials of Joseph Wilson, the instigator of the Bush-uranium-Niger controversy, and accuses columnist Robert Novak of outing his wife as a “covert C.I.A. operative.” Well, Novak didn’t, but Jehl apparently just did.

• August 8 -- I Am Bush, Destroyer of Worlds
…says the latest op-ed by Paul Krugman. Stuck in permanent smarm mode, Krugman writes on the ruin of ancient Mesopotamia’s environment and concludes: “Will we avoid the fate of past civilizations that destroyed their environments, and hence themselves? And the answer is: not if Mr. Bush can help it.”

• August 6 -- Times Promises Warm Liberian Welcome for U.S. Troops
Wednesday’s Times continues trying to coax the U.S. into Liberia, with visions of welcoming natives.

• July 30 -- Yankee Come Here!
After lamenting the “rush to war” in Iraq, the Times wants U.S. troops in Liberia yesterday. The headline to Somini Sengupta’s story from Monrovia is headlined: “Oh, if Only the G.I.’s Would Come Marching In.” She also suggests the U.S. wasn’t wanted in Iraq.

• July 28 -- Late Burial Deprives Hussein Brothers of Dignity
Reporter Dexter Filkins finds Arabs enraged that the bodies of murderous thugs Uday and Qusay Hussein haven’t been buried: “Scholars and commentators also denounced the public display of the corpses, saying the men's dignity had come at the expense of an American propaganda victory.”

• July 16 -- Kristof’s Conspiratorial Sources
Columnist Nicholas Kristof pounces on the controversial sentence in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address concerning Saddam seeking uranium in Africa: “After I wrote a month ago about the Niger uranium hoax in the State of the Union address, a senior White House official chided me gently....” But Bush didn’t refer to Niger. Kristof also notes a group of “retired spooks” are calling for VP Cheney’s resignation without mentioning the group’s ties to a left-wing group and its suggestion the toppling of Saddam’s statute was a set-up.

• July 15 -- “Carnage” In Iraq?
Reporter Adam Nagourney writes on the “continuing carnage in Iraq.” Carnage?

• July 2 -- “Guilty Or Not…”
Did the U.S. deliberately fire a missile into an Iraqi mosque, killing nine? The evidence says no, but some local Hussein fanatics say yes. So a Times headline splits the difference.

• June 27 -- Kristof’s All Ears In Iraq
Columnist Nicholas Kristof went to Iraq and is shocked to find some people there really like George Bush.

• June 26 -- Times Buries Unearthed Iraqi Nuke Secrets
The Times again gives Iraqi weapon skeptics front-page treatment but buries coverage of the nuclear parts and documents found in an Iraqi scientist’s garden.

• June 25 -- Paul Krugman, Subtle As Ever
Columnist Paul Krugman is in fine fanatical fettle: “There is no longer any serious doubt that Bush administration officials deceived us into war. The key question now is why so many influential people are in denial, unwilling to admit the obvious.”

• June 25 -- A Distorted Headline On “Distorted” Intelligence
James Risen and Douglas Jehl’s story on military intelligence-gathering sports the distressing headline: “Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence.” But the expert admits he never altered his intelligence reports –plus, he’s discussing Cuba, not Iraq.

• June 23 -- Rosenbaum’s Weapons of Tax Deception
Reporter David Rosenbaum spreads more misinformation on who benefits from Bush’s tax cut.

• June 23 -- Suicide Bombing: Just A Phase?
Reporter David Rohde portrays a would-be suicide bomber in Baghdad as a typical disaffected youngster: “Idealistic, in search of community, lost in many ways, he is trying to find himself, as young people always have.”

• June 20 -- Pentagon, Saddam --What’s the Diff?
Columnist Nicholas Kristof: “The Iraqis misused our prisoners for their propaganda purposes, and it hurts to find out that some American officials were misusing Private Lynch the same way.”

• June 16 -- Defending Democrats Against Non-Existent Attacks
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Adam Nagourney focus on Democratic attempts to use the hunt for Iraq’s WMD as an electoral weapon against Bush, while warning “Republicans were quick to try to paint Democrats as unpatriotic for raising such questions.” But they offer no evidence.

• June 13 -- That Nasty Mr. Rumsfeld
Craig Smith gets personal in a story on Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to NATO, likening the defense secretary to a bull in a china shop: “Despite Mr. Rumsfeld's behavior, the NATO ministers managed to make striking progress on restructuring the alliance…”

• June 10 -- Randy Cohen’s Impeachment Proceedings
When Times ethics columnist Randy Cohen was asked by CNN’s Aaron Brown about possible Bush administration intelligence lapses, Cohen sounded armed for impeachment: “If you are so wrong about all three causes [for war], I wonder if you can honorably hold -- continue to hold your office.”

• June 9 -- Chris Hedges Channels Noam Chomsky
Times reporter Chris Hedges, recently booed off a Rockford College commencement stage for a tone-deaf anti-war rant, does his best Noam Chomsky impersonation during an online discussion of his anti-war book.

• June 9 -- Whose Credibility Problem?
In “Bush Aides Deny Effort to Slant Data on Iraq Arms,” David Sanger warns other nations may “begin to question American credibility.” But even France and Germany admit Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

• June 5 -- Hussein Overthrow Cripples the Fake Passport Industry
“Thriving Kurdish Trade in Fake Passports Slumps as Fewer Choose to Flee the Region” is Sabrina Tavernise’s story from Northern Iraq. Isn’t that a good thing?

• June 4 -- There She Goes Again
Maureen Dowd passes along another misleading quote, making Paul Wolfowitz appear to say that allowing the U.S. to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia was a major reason for the Iraq war.

• June 3 -- “Least-Civilized” Students Heckle Chris Hedges
Sunday’s Times addresses the controversy over reporter Chris Hedges’ anti-war commencement speech by blaming uncivilized students. But does campus incivility come only from the pro-war perspective? Judging from the Times coverage, yes.

• May 30 -- The Krugman Crack-Up Continues
Krugman’s column “Waggy Dog Stories” is a collection of leftist conspiracy-mongerings worthy of Michael Moore.

• May 30 -- Profiles In Terrorism
Friday’s front-page is dominated by profiles of two Palestinian suicide bombers, with one called “the first Palestinian woman to blow herself up on behalf of an Islamist group.” Isn’t the Times taking its gender-equity obsession a bit far?

• May 30 -- Not So Fast, Mr. Kristof
Columnist Nicholas Kristof’s mocks what he considers the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Perhaps he should read yesterday’s Times story on germ laboratories.

• May 23 -- Reporter Chris Hedges’ Condescending Contempt
After his anti-war commencement tirade, Times reporter Chris Hedges went on left-wing radio and likened the hostile graduates to war-crazed animals : “With that kind of rabid nationalism comes racism and intolerance and a dehumanization of the other…. crowds that become hunting packs are very frightening….that kind of contagion leads ultimately to tyranny, it's very dangerous and it has to be stopped.”

• May 21 -- Reporter Chris Hedges’ Pompous Pacifism
Times reporter Chris Hedges thought “progressive” Rockford College would be a safe place to indulge his pompous pacifism: “I want to speak to you today about war and empire….We are embarking on an occupation that if history is any guide will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security.” The graduates thought differently.

• May 20 -- Likes Long Walks, Sunsets, Dancing On Mass Graves
Patrick Tyler’s profile of the Hussein-supporting leader of Iraq’s police force opens like a personal ad: “Maj. Gen. Hameed Othman, a man who loves poetry and landscape painting, ran the national police force in Iraq from 1997 to 2001.”

• May 16 -- Bush Policy “Did the Terrorists a Favor”
Much-criticized columnist Paul Krugman has stopped talking down Bush’s tax plan in order to bash Bush’s terrorism strategy—with about equal effectiveness.

• May 12 -- Karl Rove’s “October Surprise”?
Dredging up the “October Surprise” canard, editorial writer Francis Clines suggests the 2004 Bush campaign may purposely heighten terrorism fears for the sake of reelection.

• May 9 -- Saddam’s Slumlords
Finally, some Baghdad bad guys the Times can sink its teeth into. 

• May 8 -- Saddam-A-Bama?
Sports columnist William Rhoden thinks America’s world reputation will suffer if the U. of Alabama doesn’t hire a black football coach, comparing it to the war in Iraq.

• May 5 -- Bush’s “Radical Right” Agenda?
Columnist Thomas Friedman accuses conservatives of using the war as an excuse to drive “its radical right agenda at home.”

• May 5 -- Bush, Saddam Scorn International Justice
Times columnist Bill Keller can’t resist getting his digs into Bush’s Iraq attack: “In their scorn for international justice, Mr. Bush and Saddam Hussein were in full agreement.”

• May 2 -- Blair’s Snitch Project
Times reporter Jayson Blair resigns after being accused of plagiarism--the editorial desk overlooking warning signs that not all Blair’s work was “fit to print.”

• April 28 -- The Times Repressed Celebrity Syndrome
Reporter Leslie Eaton favorably quotes an ACLU director who sees “a growing pattern of repression against protesters, demonstrators and dissenters,” including “the shunning of celebrities who have opposed the war in Iraq.” 

• April 28 -- Times Instant Iraq Expert 
Reporter Sabrina Tavernise has been in Iraq nearly five whole days and already knows all Iraqis “suspect that America was only after oil when it invaded.” 

• April 24 -- Bitter Conservatives Attack…Colin Powell
The Times defends moderate Colin Powell and accuses former Speaker Newt Gingrich of a “savage attack against [George Bush Sr.] for raising taxes.” 

• April 24 -- No Gaffes On The Left
While the Times is all over Sen. Rich Santorum’s controversial remarks on gays, the paper never editorialized on the verbal gaffes of recent prominent Democrats, including one senator who used a racial slur on TV and another who likened Al Qaeda to a Middle Eastern charitable organization. 

• April 23 -- The Times “Public Lives” of Liberals
Of the last 20 editions of the Times personality profile “Public Lives,” five have provided unedited liberal advocacy, while the only one featuring a right-leaning personality was also the only one critical of its subject. 

• April 23 -- No Hiro
Middle East journalist Dilip Hiro’s op-ed asserts the UN is Iraq’s best hope for democracy and calls on America to leave the scene. But before the war he predicted mass civilian casualties, street rioting and attacks on Western targets in the Muslim world. So why does the Times still think he’s credible? 

• April 22 -- Physician, Heal Thyself
Times editorial page editor Gail Collins says: “It is really important for the journalistic community to decide how to separate opinions from news.” Fair enough--except the only “news advocate” she names is Rush Limbaugh.

• April 21 -- “Death Squads” In Argentina, But Not Iraq
Elisabeth Bumiller wonders if the U.S. is guilty of “propaganda” and “loaded language” when it calls Iraqi’s fedayeen paramilitary groups “death squads.” But the Times isn’t so fussy when it comes to labeling “right-wing” death squads.

• April 21 -- The Times Man In Baghdad Speaks Out On Saddam’s Reign
Times Baghdad reporter John Burns sheds some light on how journalism is made in a dictatorship: “Any Iraqi voicing an opinion other than those approved by the state would be vulnerable to arrest, torture and execution. But these were facts rarely mentioned by many reporters.” Burns did mention such things--and the regime threatened his life.

• April 21 -- Speak for Yourself, Johnny
“Nobody got it quite right,” begins R.W. “Johnny” Apple’s war wrap-up. And he should know.

• April 21