I was there, screaming with you, sadly we where a voice in the wilderness.
Remember the run-up to the Iraq invasion? It's striking how wrong the mainstream media was on almost everything – and, conversely, how right Antiwar.com was.
While Judy Miller was retailing the War Party's talking points on the front page of the New York Times, we were doing what we do best – debunking the conventional wisdom, reporting the facts, and exposing the false "intelligence" that stupid pundits swallowed whole.
While the War Party's useful idiots – Christopher Hitchens, Bill Kristol, Peter Beinart, Andrew Sullivan, etc. – were cheering for war, Antiwar.com was almost alone in denying that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction," predicting the rule of Shi'ite death squads, and warning that Iran would soon be in the War Party's sights.
Many journalists have attributed their unwillingness to question the case for war to pressure from the "patriotism police" and advertisers. As Walter Isaacson, former CEO at CNN, put it to Bill Moyers: "Big people in corporations were calling up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'"
Big People in Corporations don't call us up and say "cool it" whenever we step out of line. We keep going by appealing directly to our readers – and we don't ask for much. Antiwar.com needs just $70,000 to keep going for the next quarter, and your tax-deductible donation will help us maintain a tradition of independent journalism in the vital realm of foreign affairs. Since 1995, Antiwar.com has been nonpartisan, nonprofit, and not afraid of the "patriotism police."
While Judy Miller was retailing the War Party's talking points on the front page of the New York Times, we were doing what we do best – debunking the conventional wisdom, reporting the facts, and exposing the false "intelligence" that stupid pundits swallowed whole.
While the War Party's useful idiots – Christopher Hitchens, Bill Kristol, Peter Beinart, Andrew Sullivan, etc. – were cheering for war, Antiwar.com was almost alone in denying that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction," predicting the rule of Shi'ite death squads, and warning that Iran would soon be in the War Party's sights.
Many journalists have attributed their unwillingness to question the case for war to pressure from the "patriotism police" and advertisers. As Walter Isaacson, former CEO at CNN, put it to Bill Moyers: "Big people in corporations were calling up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'"
Big People in Corporations don't call us up and say "cool it" whenever we step out of line. We keep going by appealing directly to our readers – and we don't ask for much. Antiwar.com needs just $70,000 to keep going for the next quarter, and your tax-deductible donation will help us maintain a tradition of independent journalism in the vital realm of foreign affairs. Since 1995, Antiwar.com has been nonpartisan, nonprofit, and not afraid of the "patriotism police."
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