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The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) recently released it's statement and call to action on false reporting by Newsweek that cost lives: the printing of claims concerning WMD in Iraq.
FAIR recent action alert reads in part:
The inaccurate Newsweek report appeared in the magazine's March 17, 2003 issue, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.
It read in part: "Saddam could decide to take Baghdad with him. One Arab intelligence officer interviewed by Newsweek spoke of 'the green mushroom' over Baghdad--the modern-day caliph bidding a grotesque bio-chem farewell to the land of the living alongside thousands of his subjects as well as his enemies. Saddam wants to be remembered. He has the means and the demonic imagination. It is up to U.S. armed forces to stop him before he can achieve notoriety for all time."
Newsweek has yet to retract this assertion that the US had to invade Iraq in order to prevent the "green mushroom." Let's be real here, Newsweek and virtually the whole of the mainstream media reported uncritically claims of the Bush Administration and those who supported the idea that force had to be used. These were the lies and omissions that paved the road for US troops into Iraq. We cannot retract the over 1600 American dead and the tens and possibily 100,000 Iraqi dead. But we can start to hold the US media accountable for having reported (no, served as stenographer) on bended-knee for President Bush.
The flushed Quran ought not even register on our radar screen, except in the context of investigating in along side the so many other claims of abuse by US soldiers. More evidence has emerged today in the New York Times concerning torture and murder of dentainees in Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
FAIR recent action alert reads in part:
The inaccurate Newsweek report appeared in the magazine's March 17, 2003 issue, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.
It read in part: "Saddam could decide to take Baghdad with him. One Arab intelligence officer interviewed by Newsweek spoke of 'the green mushroom' over Baghdad--the modern-day caliph bidding a grotesque bio-chem farewell to the land of the living alongside thousands of his subjects as well as his enemies. Saddam wants to be remembered. He has the means and the demonic imagination. It is up to U.S. armed forces to stop him before he can achieve notoriety for all time."
Newsweek has yet to retract this assertion that the US had to invade Iraq in order to prevent the "green mushroom." Let's be real here, Newsweek and virtually the whole of the mainstream media reported uncritically claims of the Bush Administration and those who supported the idea that force had to be used. These were the lies and omissions that paved the road for US troops into Iraq. We cannot retract the over 1600 American dead and the tens and possibily 100,000 Iraqi dead. But we can start to hold the US media accountable for having reported (no, served as stenographer) on bended-knee for President Bush.
The flushed Quran ought not even register on our radar screen, except in the context of investigating in along side the so many other claims of abuse by US soldiers. More evidence has emerged today in the New York Times concerning torture and murder of dentainees in Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
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