NY Times Drumbeat on the March to War

The Times confesses serious errors in its reporting on alleged WMD in Iraq in the run-up to invasion.  Unfortunately, it is the Washington Post which is more honest about the Times' errors than the Times itself.  Howard Kurtz reports that the Times relied in large part on Ahmed Chalabi for its earlier hyping of WMD.  It seems that the Pentagon's recent fall-out with Chalabi has disturbed the Times' editors confidence in his earlier claims.  If the Times fires someone for the errors (which it should), it would provide a precedent for an action that the Bush Administration should have taken long ago.  (But, of course, this is an Administration, quite unlike the Times, that never makes mistakes; and thus never needs to confess error.)