{"id":1036102,"date":"2023-03-24T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=277599"},"modified":"2023-03-24T06:02:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:02:22","slug":"20-years-of-iraq-denialism-the-new-york-times-continues-to-get-it-wrong-on-u-s-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/24\/20-years-of-iraq-denialism-the-new-york-times-continues-to-get-it-wrong-on-u-s-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get it Wrong on U.S. Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, \u201c20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?\u201d The piece acknowledges some harsh realities about the war, while dodging questions about its legality and the imperial motivations that fueled it. This is par for the course for the paper of record, which has a decades-long history of sidestepping damning questions about the war. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/24\/20-years-of-iraq-denialism-the-ny-times-continues-to-get-it-wrong-on-u-s-empire\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/24\/20-years-of-iraq-denialism-the-ny-times-continues-to-get-it-wrong-on-u-s-empire\/\">20 Years of Iraq Denialism: The New York Times Continues to Get it Wrong on U.S. Empire<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, \u201c20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?\u201d The piece acknowledges some harsh realities about the war, wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036486,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036102\/revisions\/1036486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}