![]() The NYT Daily Mini is one popular feature of the New York Times crossword puzzle. A fan-favorite feature in this app is the New York Times Mini Crossword. One popular place to complete these crosswords is through the New York Times Crossword mobile app, available on the App Store and Google Play. Since then, it’s gone on to be syndicated across 300 newspapers, journals, and now, mobile apps. It wasn’t until 1950 that the puzzle became a daily feature. ![]() George Orwell famously said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.The New York Times crossword puzzle began being published in 1942 in the Sunday edition of the newspaper. So a “war of choice” that cost 300,000 Iraqi lives, 4,600 American lives, and 815 BILLION dollars (all NYT figures) must be forever a mystery! NO WAY could all this have happened just to prevent the Republicans from losing the House and Senate in 2002! No matter how much evidence is staring them in the face. I mean, there are social events to be held with these people! Access that must be had! Polite power luncheons! The reason the New York Times still can’t admit this after twenty years is that they would have to acknowledge the staggering, nihilistic, calamitous cynicism of the move by Cheney/Rove/Bush. Once they were in, they knew it wouldn’t matter: they’d just say that anyone who opposed them was “objectively pro-Saddam.” They just needed it to stampede us into this war, which they knew would win them the 2002 midterms. The Bush/Rove/Cheney/Rumsfeld gang clearly didn’t give a shit about the WMD issue.After we were committed, who cared? And if the Iraqis didn’t cooperate, he would authorize.oh gee, what did they call it? Oh, yeah: “enhanced coercive interrogation techniques" Cheney knew that he could ‘stovepipe’ the intel they needed to justify the war from the CIA.He could spin Republicans as brawny, stalwart warrior-patriots, and brand any Democrat who opposed them as traitorous wimps. Rove knew that bum-rushing the country into war would send Bush’s stock through the roof in the initial ‘Boo-Yah shock and awe’ phase.I mean, WTF New York Times? Here’s what Rumsfeld would call the “Known Knowns” And Chambliss beat Cleland, sending Cleland into a suicidal depression. Department of Homeland Security, Cleland wanted the workers to be able to unionize. Why? Because, in the debate about creating the U.S. The ad featured Cleland’s face morphing into Osama bin Laden. In the 2002 midterms, took-a-pass-on-the-Vietnam-War Saxby Chambliss ran a TV ad in the Georgia Senate race against disabled-by-a-grenade-in-Vietnam-decorated-war-vet Max Cleland. The public justifications for the invasion were nothing but pretexts, and falsified pretexts at that.” America invaded Iraq because the Bush administration wanted a war. “The Iraq war wasn’t an innocent mistake, a venture undertaken on the basis of intelligence that turned out to be wrong. ![]() He’s quoted in a (great) article in the Atlantic saying: I can well remember my rage and helplessness as Bush, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz took a once-in-a-hundred-year chance to bring the country together and, instead, used it as a blackjack to mug any Democrat who wasn’t on board with the Iraq invasion.Ĭan I quote the great Paul Krugman, NYT’s own columnist? Of all the pundits, Krugman was the only one who called BULLSHIT on the war from day one. Then came 9/11, and, in the words of the Guardian, “Rumsfeld and Cheney, together with Rumsfeld’s deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, emerged as radical warmongers driven by fear of worst-case scenarios with little or no basis in reality - in particular the idea that Saddam was allied with al-Qaida, had chemical and biological weapons, and was on the brink of building nuclear warheads. He was, in the words of Bill Clinton, “an empty suit with a mean streak.” His popularity was right around 40% and plummeting. Everything he’d done so far was revealing the awful truth: he was in over his head. Bush lost the popular vote in the 2000 election. ![]() We invaded Iraq because Karl Rove decided that starting a war was the Republicans’ best chance to win the 2002 mid-terms. I know! I was sentient when all this was going down! Here’s why we invaded Iraq: Then comes this nugget: “ The world may never get a definitive answer.” ![]() I can’t answer it,” Richard Haass, a senior State Department official at the time of the invasion, said in 2004 when asked why it had happened.” Read the text! “The question remains.a matter of deep uncertainty”.”the debate rages on.” “I will go to my grave not knowing that. ![]()
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