On July 30th this paragraph appeared in The New York Times under the byline of Steven Weisman:  "The State Department has admitted that, as Mr. Biden charged, Mr. Bolton had been interviewed in a previous inquiry into one particular intelligence failure on Iraq, the finding that Iraq had tried to buy raw uranium from Niger for a nuclear arms program.  That finding turned out to be based on FORGED DOCUMENTS (editors caps)."  This forged documents term may be its first use in the mainstream media associated with the Bush Administration since our media/press trumpeted the term in an attempt to discredit Dan Rather's accurate, publicly acknowledged spotty National Guard record of the junior George Bush during the war against Vietnam.

Mr. Weisman's article is indicative of a major philosophical struggle within The New York Times (the Times' Ms. Judith Miller is now known to have, at least on four occasions, to have passed on bogus items of support for the Bush Administration's effort to discredit Joe Wilson, items supplied by the office of Vice President Dick Cheney) as is the confrontation fomenting within the world wide Jewish community, whether to endorse or, finally, to denounce the ill-advised invasion of Iraq, all designed for the benefit of Zionist Israel.

An aside.  Here are some eye-opening segments of Jeffrey Goldberg's Real Insiders article in the 7/4/05 The New Yorker noting his conversations "several years ago" with prominent Jewish Americans working through the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), often clandestinely, but directly, with Ariel Sharon's office in Israel (at his ranch, the largest in the country?), men like Steven Rosen and David Steiner (how is it that Goldberg didn't get this story in print "several years ago" - which reminds of Bill Safir, who kept to himself, until it was too late, that Sharon intended to start the 2000 intifada with an armed "visit" to The Dome of the Rock, Islam's most holy site in all of Palestine):  "'A lobby is like a nightflower:  it thrives in the dark and dies in the sun (surely this is not from the Talmud or Torah)'...AIPAC is a leviathan among lobbies...David Steiner said he was 'negotiating with the incoming Clinton Administration...We have a dozen people in (Clinton's) headquarters...and they are all going to get big jobs (editor's note:  Louis Freeh?).'"  When Mr. Goldberg asked Mr. Rosen at dinner about the influence of that Israeli lobby at the time, Mr. Rosen replied:  "'You see this napkin...in twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.'"