NYT and articles on Iran

Dear Public Editor:

It seems your newspaper learned nothing from the Judith Miller fiasco.   Now you are printing a bunch of lies about Iran, and how it is a threat to the USA and the "west" -- all of which is total nonsense, as
any thinking person knows.  (However, history has shown us that Americans do not think much, unfortunately.)

Several years back, I head a "Judith Miller goes to jail for the wrong reasons" party.  It was fun, and I had a dozen friends who knew all about Judith Miller's lies that lead to war.  All of us lost respect for the NYT for publishing such nonsense.

I certainly believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that freedom brings responsibilities.  And in regards to the fact that the NYT published lies (that were easy to disprove - just talk to those McClatchy folks), I believe that the NYT and all it's employees are responsible for the many innocent deaths in Iraq from the war that the NYT helped gin up.  There is no legal responsibility here - just MORAL responsibility.   And I believe the NYT and the people who work there were moral failures in 2002 and 2003.

And, it appears, that you and the rest of the NYT have not learned your lesson at all.

I see the NYT as being covered in innocent Iraqi blood.  It is quite grotesque.

Well, I certainly would prefer to see the NYT (and all of you who work there) go bankrupt, and go to jail for the wrong reasons, than to see one Iranian person's blood be shed for another unnecessary war or (as they are doing now) covert action.    Those innocent people are much, much, much more valuable than the human garbage at the NYT.

If you send a response, I will post it (and this letter) on my blog.

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Sincerely,
Art Brisbane
Public Editor