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Re: NY Post Editorial on BBC
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Joe Buch
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Aug 28, 2003 10:10 PDT
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At 03:36 PM 8/28/03 GMT, John Figliozzi wrote:
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were no U.S. forces at the Baghdad airport even as Army tanks rolled down
its runways.)"
| | | | | | | | Again, it would be nice if the Post could come up with just one
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meaningful (and accurate) example. This one is a canard.>>>>
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As our friends up in Quebec would say, "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a canard."
I do remember that day clearly. I was listening to the reports on BBCWS while watching the coverage from the embeded TV crews at the airport. The BBC reporter in Baghdad was echoing "Comical Ali's" report. Gilligan did not have any way to see what the world was seeing on TV. The anchor guy in London, to his credit, was appropriately skeptical of the report he was hearing from downtown Baghdad and communicated that in the tone of his questions.
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"This was not an intelligence officer as the BBC claimed, but a
government scientist named David Kelly. Kelly committed suicide in early
July after testifying to Parliament, prompting an independent inquiry
into the whole affair."
| | | | | | | | What the Post leaves unmentioned here is the government's (and
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perhaps the PM's) role is "outing" Kelly. This would seem crucial to any
truthful analysis of the matter.>>>>>
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I agree with your observation but I do think Kelly was an intelligence officer which is the real lie the Post makes here. Kelly was a member of the inspection team looking for WMD before the overt invasion began. The heat was on him to talk. If Kelly committed suicide, that would be consistent with his duty not to reveal his true chain of command. If Kelly did not commit suicide, that would be consistent with his chain of command, fearing of being outed by Kelly, sparing him the trouble of doing himself in. Where is Robert Ludlum when we need him?
As long as we are Murdock bashing, the Post also ran a story today about how the fledgling liberal talk radio network was not going to be successful. There is a link to the story from DrudgeReport.com.
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