Friday, August 19, 2005

Baltimore Sun's Jules Witcover Retires, Blasting Bush

From Editor & Publisher:

Noted mainstream political writer Jules Witcover wrote his final column for The Sun of Baltimore, ending a 24-year run. He exited with a strong anti-Iraq war message, going so far as to lament that he did not come out earlier for the impeachment of President Bush.
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He observed today that while he was a strong supporter of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, "when President Bush began to shift his strategy to Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction that were a major threat to the United States, and he linked him to 9/11, I began to question that strategy and the motives, information and logic behind it....

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