05/18/05

I'm not at all surprised that the supporters of the current war jumped on Newsweek's flubbed story that led to widespread riots and the deaths of about 15 people. Neither am I surprised that they hold the media to a higher standard than their 'public servants' in Washington. The now-retracted story alleged that US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran in order to get their Muslim prisoners to talk. ... The knives were drawn immediately. But the skewering of Newsweek by neoconservative war pundits should be taken worth a grain of salt, for obvious reasons. These are the same people who defended or overlooked the false information fed to us by our own government in the lead up to the current immoral, unconstitutional war in Iraq in which tens of thousands have already perished." [editor's note: Why is everyone ignoring the fact that the "Quran desecration story" has been reported, without dispute, for some time, and that the problem with the Newsweek story was a claim that a forthcoming government report would admit to the known facts? - TLK]

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/05/18/68_32_155_83_61940.htm

from Sierra Times, by Garry Cobb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp