Sway : Peter Cincotti
"Well, bless your pea-pickin' heart." - my preacher
Eeya, it seems every time i post, all i can say is the fact that i have been dutifully neglecting to post often.
Shigata ga nai, neh? ^_~
Ok, well, time for a long rant. Enjoy!
Two wars with less casualties than the amount of people killed in senseless violence in LA any given day, and people are so self-absorbed they sink to madly exaggerating the alleged "looting" occuring after countless people are finally freed from the tyrannical rule of a sadistic despot.
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"It took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters."
-- New York Times, April 13
Well, not really. Turns out the Iraqi National Museum lost not 170,000 treasures but 33...
The source of the lie, Donny George... now says that he originally told the media that "there were 170,000 pieces in the entire museum collection. Not 170,000 pieces stolen. No, no, no. That would be every single object we have!"
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And yet, he allowed the story to go around the world for weeks before he "corrected" the mistake. Link is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52824-2003Jun12.html
And now, another article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york060303.asp
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Milbank's case against Bush began with... [the] ...address to the nation on the subject of Iraq... "for missions targeting the United States." That statement, Milbank claimed, was "dubious, if not wrong," because a CIA report on the unmanned aircraft "said nothing about [their] having sufficient range to threaten the United States."
But Milbank quoted just a few words of Bush's speech. A more complete look at the text would have shown that Bush actually said: "We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical and biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs for missions targeting the United States."
The longer statement puts Bush's words in a somewhat different light.
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"Well, bless your pea-pickin' heart." - my preacher
Eeya, it seems every time i post, all i can say is the fact that i have been dutifully neglecting to post often.
Shigata ga nai, neh? ^_~
Ok, well, time for a long rant. Enjoy!
Two wars with less casualties than the amount of people killed in senseless violence in LA any given day, and people are so self-absorbed they sink to madly exaggerating the alleged "looting" occuring after countless people are finally freed from the tyrannical rule of a sadistic despot.
Begin exerpt-----
"It took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters."
-- New York Times, April 13
Well, not really. Turns out the Iraqi National Museum lost not 170,000 treasures but 33...
The source of the lie, Donny George... now says that he originally told the media that "there were 170,000 pieces in the entire museum collection. Not 170,000 pieces stolen. No, no, no. That would be every single object we have!"
-end exerpt----
And yet, he allowed the story to go around the world for weeks before he "corrected" the mistake. Link is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52824-2003Jun12.html
And now, another article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york060303.asp
Begin exerpt-----
Milbank's case against Bush began with... [the] ...address to the nation on the subject of Iraq... "for missions targeting the United States." That statement, Milbank claimed, was "dubious, if not wrong," because a CIA report on the unmanned aircraft "said nothing about [their] having sufficient range to threaten the United States."
But Milbank quoted just a few words of Bush's speech. A more complete look at the text would have shown that Bush actually said: "We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical and biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs for missions targeting the United States."
The longer statement puts Bush's words in a somewhat different light.
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posted by Deborah at 8:41:00 PM
