[IP] more on why did TIME censor George H.W. Bush's quotes from its web-site?! EOL

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:45:43 -0500
From: Michael Newman <michaeln@nytimes.com>

I searched the archives myself:

http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200304/msg00012.html

and

http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200304/msg00006.html


At 04:17 PM 11/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
> Where is Orwell when we need him to remind us. djf
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:05:51 -0800
> To: State and Local Freedom of Information Issues <FOI-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>,
>    Dave Farber:;;Dave Farber:;@well.com;, Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
> Subject: why did TIME censor George H.W. Bush's quotes from its web-site?!
>
> http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm
>
> On 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract from an essay by 
> George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft, in which they explain why they didn't 
> have the military push into Iraq and topple Saddam during Gulf War 1. 
> Although there are differences between the Iraq situations in 1991 and 
> 2002-3, Bush's key points apply to both.
>
> But a funny thing happened. Fairly recently, Time pulled the essay off of 
> their site. It used to be at this link, which now gives a 404 error. If 
> you go to the table of contents for the issue in which the essay appeared 
> (2 March 1998), "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" is conspicuously absent.
>
> Because of this erasure, we're posting the entire essay below the portion 
> we originally excerpted. Below that, you'll find a copy of the actual page 
> from the magazine ...
>
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