The Post's Own 'Iraq Quagmire'

Diving into politics, Erik Wemple takes the Washington Post to task today for Iraq War editorial policy. Most damning perhaps is that he updates an earlier chart outlining some of the bone-headed lines the Post’s editorial board has come up with as it supports the war.

“The Post’s editorialists bought the White House line in full, yet they haven’t gone the mea culpa route. They flirted with accountability in an October 2003 editorial, which reads in part: ‘Were we wrong? The honest answer is: We don’t yet know.’

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