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As one of the most influential newspapers in the country, the Washington Post has a responsibility to honestly and accurately represent a diversity of viewpoints on important national issues. Unfortunately, when it comes to the war on Iraq, the Post has done nothing of the sort. Instead, its opinion pages have consistently been beating the drums of war.

As Robert Weissman and Russell Mokhiber have documented, over the six-month period from September through February, the leading newspaper in the nation's capital has editorialized 26 times in favor of war and none against. Between November and February, the Post ran 46 op-eds in favor of war and only 21 against. In February, 24 of 34 op-eds on the war were in favor.

As former Post editor William Greider has written, the Post "sold this war, and now if America becomes the author of massive violence in a war of choice, not necessity, the Post will be implicated in the bloody consequences."

Also see: The Pro-War Post The paper's opinion columns turn hawkish on Iraq. By Todd Gitlin of the American Prospect

Last Updated March 26, 2003