"We know for a fact that there are weapons there."

Eric Alterman on the media's recondite lack of principles, esp. regarding Iraq and WMD:

"...For this colossal lack of judgment, every single top administration official deserves to be fired or lose his or her job. But in fact not only has no one been so or done so, the only people to leave the administration were those who insisted on telling the American people the truth. No administration member has even gone so far as to question whether Iraq was such a good idea in light of the fact that they presented no threat and the postwar period has been an unending catastrophe. That the president feels he is able to run for a second term on this record—and he may even be successful in doing so—is a profound indictment of the mainstream media’s unwillingness to call a proverbial spade a spade in this horrific, counterproductive and unnecessary war...."