I should have made an entry about this yesterday. The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and the University of Maryland have issued a report on what most any critical thinker knows. That is, that the U.S big media utterly failed in their watchdog duty in the run-up to, and during the Iraq war redux.

Particularly stinging is this conclusion:

Many stories stenographically reported the incumbent administration's perspectives on WMD, giving too little critical examination of the way officials framed the events, issues, threats and policy options.

Ouch! And this:

"The American political system is in the early stages of contending with an unwelcome but ultimately unavoidable problem. The United States initiated war against Iraq on the basis of an inaccurate representation of the scope and immediacy of the threat posed, and it did so without international authority. That has prejudiced the legitimacy of the occupation, thereby undermining the single most important ingredient of successful reconstruction." -- John Steinbruner

More here

All I can say is that I wasn't part of this adoption of the "incumbent administration's perspectives on WMD." Once Iraq declared that they had no prohibited weapons, I waited -- and am still waiting -- for the U.S. to provide hard evidence that they did. After Glen Rangwala dropped the bombshell on the British plariarized dossier, I became a true skeptic. I remain so to this day. Not just about Iraq intel, but about everything this administration says -- or doesn't say.