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www.nytimes-se.com — The sudden outbreak of peace in Iraq has made me realize, among other things, one incontestable fact: I have no business holding a pen, at least with intent to write. I know, you’re thinking I’m going too far. I haven’t always been wrong about everything. I recently made some sense ...

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Fake New York Times Says All Problems Will Be Solved By July 2009
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — New York City woke up this morning to find that some committed satirists had delivered unto them a remarkably well-rendered facsimile of the New York Times, filled with earnest and hopeful headlines from the future -- specifically July 4, 2009 -- in which the Iraq War is over, Bush is indicted for treason, and columnist Thomas Friedman has confessed: "I have no business holding a pen, at least with intent to write." Gawker has followed the trail of intelligence and concluded that the parody is the work of The Yes Men -- high-concept ...

Tom Friedman's Conscience Speaks
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda — ... Did he fall and hit his head? But to have been so completely and fundamentally wrong about so huge a disaster as what we have done to Iraq — and ourselves — is outrageous enough to prove that people like me have no business posing as wise men, and, more importantly, that The New York Times has no business continuing to provide me with a national platform. In any case, I have made a decision: as of today, I will no longer write in this or any other newspaper. I will immediately desist from ...