Time Warner’s flagship corporate editorial product, Time magazine, has apparently censored itself in a blatant attempt to re-write history and curry favor with the administration of Bush II.
The Memory Hole is reporting that Time has removed an essay authored by Bush I and Brent Scowcroft entitled “Why We Didn’t Remove Saddam.” The essay originally appeared in the 2 March 1998 issue of the weekly and has been removed from the publication’s website archive. Even more telling, the table of contents for the issue makes no mention of the essay. It’s as if, in the Time Warner universe, the article never existed.
A one sentence excerpt from the disappeared Bush-Scowcroft article, makes clear the reason Time tried to erase history:
“We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.”
The Memory Hole reprints the entire essay, along with a graphic image of the actual page as it appeared in print.
