Lying

More NYT bullshit, listen:

The bitterest message of all for the reconstruction program may be the way the history ends. The hard figures on basic services and industrial production compiled for the report reveal that for all the money spent and promises made, the rebuilding effort never did much more than restore what was destroyed during the invasion and the convulsive looting that followed.

That's from an article describing an unpublished Pentagon report that documents how Iraq has been rebuilt destroyed since the invasion.

Asserting, as the quoted paragraph above does, that Iraq has been restored to its pre-war condition, by any scale, is a lie, just like the lies the Pentagon's report exposes.

Let's face it, when it comes to lying, the NYT had just better shut up.