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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:34:13 -0500


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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
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   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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