Newsweek Lied, People Died

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FDR would have hanged their asses for publishing such a thing in 42 whether it was accurate or not. The idea of the interests of the United States never entered the minds of the cretins running Newsweek.

gungasnake wrote:

FDR would have hanged their asses for publishing such a thing in 42 whether it was accurate or not. The idea of the interests of the United States never entered the minds of the cretins running Newsweek.

As I understand the stated motives of the United States' government, it has no interest in Afghanistan and Iraq except to bring democracy and freedom to these places. That freedom surely includes freedom of speech. If the US government were to hang journalists for delivering unpleasant news, it would set a terrible example, thus corrupting the only interest it ever had in the Middle East. Certainly they would never do that?

These same journalists certainly know how to be silent and simply not print something which is demonstrably harmful, I mean, they all went for six years refusing to print anything at all about Slick Clinton....

Curious that people post bumper stickers that Newsweek lied, but still cling to the premise that George W. Bush is sqeaky clean and did not lie

Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says
Army investigating allegations of mishandling at Guantanamo Bay facility





By Jacquelyn S. Porth
Washington File Staff Writer



Washington - The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says a report from Afghanistan suggests that rioting in Jalalabad on May 11 was not necessarily connected to press reports that the Quran might have been desecrated in the presence of Muslim prisoners held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Air Force General Richard Myers told reporters at the Pentagon May 12 that he has been told that the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, rioting was related more to the ongoing political reconciliation process in Afghanistan than anything else.

According to initial reports, the situation in Jalalabad began on May 10 with peaceful student protests reacting to a report in Newsweek magazine that U.S. military interrogators questioning Muslim detainees at the Guantanamo detention center "had placed Quran s on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book." By the following day the protests in the city had turned violent with reports of several individuals killed, dozens wounded, and widespread looting of government, diplomatic and nongovernmental assets.

However, Myers said an after-action report provided by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, commander of the Combined Forces in Afghanistan, indicated that the political violence was not, in fact, connected to the magazine report.

gungasnake wrote:

These same journalists certainly know how to be silent and simply not print something which is demonstrably harmful, I mean, they all went for six years refusing to print anything at all about Slick Clinton....

During the nineties, clearly you must have read a very different edition of Newsweek than I have. The edition I read back then were full of Clinton and Lewinsky.

I read today that Newsweek will print a retraction. Why? Because they got beat down and bottom-line, the potential of losing ad money is great. That's what it all boils down to.

Downing Street War Memo Gains Traction in U.S. Press



By Greg Mitchell

Published: May 14, 2005 10:45 AM ET updated May 16, 2:00 AM

NEW YORK For more than 10 days, the U.S. media nearly ignored it, but finally the so-called "Downing Street Memo" is finally gaining traction in the U.S. press. The Los Angeles Times featured a lengthy report on Thursday, and Walter Pincus of The Washington Post followed on Friday.

The memo, obtained by the The Sunday Times in London and published on May 1, became a major issue in the closing days of the British elections but received little attention in the United States until a Knight Ridder report on May 6, which E&P carried. A Knight Ridder editor later told E&P that it received surprisingly little pickup. The New York Times has given it little notice.

The Washington Post ignored the memo until Pincus's article, which appeared Friday on page A18. It arrived five days after Post ombudsman Michael Getler revealed that readers had complained about the lack of coverage.

Intrepid wrote:

Curious that people post bumper stickers that Newsweek lied, but still cling to the premise that George W. Bush is sqeaky clean and did not lie

"Newsweek" has admitted that they rushed to judgement. Whether one considers that a lie or not is probably a personal choice. The idea that Bush lied is a mantra of the liberals, but when asked to give examples, all you usually get is some evasive remark that doesn't actually prove anything. The way the liberals usually operate is:

Liberal: Bush lied and everyone knows it by now.
Sane Person: Really? What was the lie? Could you give an example?
Liberal: It's not my fault if you have blinders on.

Refusing to give examples to suppport one's position, although often presented as "I can't help it if you're too stupid to see it," is really nothing more than a forfeit.

So, what was Bush's lie???

Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations

gungasnake wrote:

These same journalists certainly know how to be silent and simply not print something which is demonstrably harmful, I mean, they all went for six years refusing to print anything at all about Slick Clinton....

During the nineties, clearly you must have read a very different edition of Newsweek than I have. The edition I read back then was full of Clinton and Lewinsky.

very interesting commentary and yet I sit here and wonder, was the Newsweek article accurate or not? Well that and does it really matter to anyone?