Krugman picks up The Memo (and takes down Tierney)

It is nice to see the smoking gun memo PROVING THAT GEORGE W. BUSH CONTRIVED THE REASONS FOR THE IRAQ WAR finally getting some big-time mainstream play with Paul Krugman's column today in the New York Times.

If you read the piece too quickly, though, you might miss it as Mr. Paul lays down a little smack on fellow NYT columnist John Tierney.

The people who sold us this war continue to insist that success is just around the corner, and that things would be fine if the media would just stop reporting bad news (emphasis added). But the administration has declared victory in Iraq at least four times. January's election, it seems, was yet another turning point that wasn't.

The quote above is a takedown of the ridiculous column in which Tierney suggests that if journalists love America, they will stop reporting the details of insurgent activity in Iraq.