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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:34:13 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:45:43 -0500 From: Michael Newman <michaeln () nytimes com> I searched the archives myself: http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200304/msg00012.html and http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200304/msg00006.html At 04:17 PM 11/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
Where is Orwell when we need him to remind us. djf Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:05:51 -0800 To: State and Local Freedom of Information Issues <FOI-L () LISTSERV SYR EDU>, Dave Farber:;;Dave Farber:;@well.com;, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Subject: why did TIME censor George H.W. Bush's quotes from its web-site?! http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htmOn 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract from an essay by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft, in which they explain why they didn't have the military push into Iraq and topple Saddam during Gulf War 1. Although there are differences between the Iraq situations in 1991 and 2002-3, Bush's key points apply to both.But a funny thing happened. Fairly recently, Time pulled the essay off of their site. It used to be at this link, which now gives a 404 error. If you go to the table of contents for the issue in which the essay appeared (2 March 1998), "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" is conspicuously absent.Because of this erasure, we're posting the entire essay below the portion we originally excerpted. Below that, you'll find a copy of the actual page from the magazine ...------------------------------------- You are subscribed as michael.newman () aya yale edu To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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