Memory holes on the Internet

[DaBeeeenster]

http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm

On 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract from an essay by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft, in which they explain why they didn't have the military push into Iraq and topple Saddam during Gulf War 1. Although there are differences between the Iraq situations in 1991 and 2002-3, Bush's key points apply to both.

But a funny thing happened. Fairly recently, Time pulled the essay off of their site. It used to be at this link, which now gives a 404 error. If you go to the table of contents for the issue in which the essay appeared (2 March 1998), "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" is conspicuously absent.

Because of this erasure, we're posting the entire essay below the portion we originally excerpted. Below that, you'll find a copy of the actual page from the magazine, courtesy of Bruce Koball and Boing Boing.

[dpm]

I read about this on the slashdot, where it made for a great conspiracy theory!

It seems to be, however, that Time only had limited electronic publishing rights for this - seeing as the article was only an excerpt from Bush and Scowcroft's book, rather than an independant essay.

Its good that the internet community are keeping old content alive, but its not like this 'essay' has been expunged from the records - you can always just pick it up at Waterstones...