# If this is true...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-is-true/168062>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 11, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-is-true/168062 "2003-04-11T16:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![booka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@booka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booka)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-is-true/168062/1 "2003-04-11T16:36:07Z")

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> **[Opinion | The News We Kept To Ourselves (Published 2003)](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/the-news-we-kept-to-ourselves.html)**
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> Op-Ed article by Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, says now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, world can expect to hear many gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about decades of torment; says he has tales as well, learned during 13 trips he...

…then it leaves little doubt as to moral or ethical upside to the war in Iraq.

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**Author:** ![booka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@booka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booka)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-this-is-true/168062/2 "2003-04-11T16:44:39Z")

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Oooops - already posted elsewhere…CNN guy relating horrors in Iraq that he had to keep quiet about.