Cursor's Media Patrol - 11/15/05

'Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials,' the New York Times editorializes that "It's obvious that the Bush administration misled Americans about Mr. Hussein's weapons and his terrorist connections. We need to know how that happened and why."

In 'rediscovered testimony,' George Tenet "told Congress in February 2001 that Iraq was 'probably' pursuing chemical and biological weapons programs but that the CIA had no direct evidence that Iraq had actually obtained such weapons," reports Raw Story. Earlier: "This odd story begs for analysis."

A report on the motivation of a failed suicide bomber, who lost three brothers in Iraq, mentions that the CIA "recently warned that a new generation of jihadists was being trained in the Iraq war, and that these fighters could soon take their cause to other countries."

Roberto Lovato describes how Halliburton and its subcontractors turned hundreds of undocumented Latino workers into 'Gulf Coast Slaves' after Katrina. Lovato earlier covered 'The Latinization of the New New Orleans.'