His first column for The New York Times' op-ed page last Monday held a major attribution "error", and then the paper's public editor called his hiring a "mistake." Now a key claim in William Kristol's second column for the paper has been undercut by a news article at the Times a few hours later.
Kristol in his column, which hailed the success of the "surge" in Iraq, concluded with this trump card: Now the Iraqi government has agreed on de-Baathification, a key gain that proves his point and pretty much destroys the Democrats' stand.
But now at www.nytimes.com comes a kind of corrective from the paper's Solomon Moore in Baghdad. It opens:
"A day after the Iraqi Parliament passed legislation billed as the first significant political step forward in Iraq after months of deadlock, there were troubling questions — and troubling silences — about the measure’s actual effects.
"The measure, known as the Justice and Accountability Law, is meant to open government jobs to former members of the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein — the bureaucrats, engineers, city workers, teachers, soldiers and police officers who made the government work until they were barred from office after the American invasion in 2003.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003696041
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