Milwaukee Paper Apologizes for Accepting 'Cooked' WMD Evidence

A Milwaukee paper has apologized for buying the administration's lies on WMD.

Now that's a step in the right direction.

If only the press had done their job 2.5 years ago.

Milwaukee Paper Apologizes for Accepting 'Cooked' WMD Evidence

The most important newspaper in its region finally apologized to readers for accepting "cooked" evidence about WMD in Iraq that helped lead to war in 2003. No, it was not The New York Times.

In a column on Sunday, O. Ricardo Pimentel, editorial page editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote that, “Yes, regrettably on the matter of WMD, count us as among the many who were duped. We should have been more skeptical. For that lack of skepticism and the failure to include the proper caveats to the WMD claim, we apologize, though I would note that, ultimately, we didn't believe that the president's central WMD argument warranted war. Not then and especially not now.”...