The Irresponsible New York Times

Washington, D.C.

President George W. Bush lashed out this week against the New York Times for printing articles jeopardizing our national security. He was furious over stories written by Judith Miller repeating propaganda given to her by Administration and defense department sources inflating fictitious reports about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Bush says this irresponsible reporting resulted in his having to invade Iraq and led to a disatsrous occupation costing thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.

The White House says the hysteria for invading Iraq began because of these front page articles. He says it got so loud he could not ignore the cires for war emanating from every American community after they learned of this spurious intelligence. Now he's accusing the New York Times of treason and calling for the newspaper to close.

Efforts to ask Bush why he allowed his Administration and White House staffers to leak this false information in order to stoke war fever went unanswered. He also refused to answer questions as to why Karl Rove and Lewis Libby sacrificed national security directly from his White House by revealing the identity of Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA operative.