Monday, March 24, 2003

We Lie While People Die

Always follow the link.

Sully says:

WHAT WE CAME FOR? A huge chemical weapons plant uncovered by U.S. troops, according to Sky News. We'll see. My favorite line in this piece, though, is the following: "UN weapons inspectors said they are not aware of any large-scale chemical sites which could be used to make chemical weapons in Najaf." Imagine that.

Link says:

The Pentagon is playing down reports that US troops have found a "huge" chemical weapons factory in the town of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad.

Sky's Washington correspondent Keith Graves says it now appears as if the facility has not been manufacturing chemical or biological weapons.

"Officials are urging journalists to treat reports of this type of find with more caution," he said.

Murdoch and Sully, birds of a feather.

To be fair, it looks like Sky "updated" (that is, retracted) the story after Sully's post. And Sully uses all the right weasel words. But that only suggests he knows a Murdoch outlet is an unreliable source.

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