Let’s Focus For A Moment
There is a huge ruckus going on right now about the Associated Press publishing what appear to be complete lies about Iraq. They appear to be using stringers who are gleefully quoting "police spokesmen" who are, actually, neither. But it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the lies the media are pumping out right now. Take this one from a few days back: The BBC cheerfully reported that "up to 1,000,000" unexploded bomblets from cluster munitions were all over Southern Lebanon. Bob Owens did a great job of doing the math and exposing that as a complete fabrication. But don't take his word for it:
So far, the administration has focused on training Lebanese military officers and demining southern Lebanon in the wake of the Israel-Hizbullah war. Officials said Washington has helped remove about 50,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance in Lebanon, or about half of the estimated total.
"There's a major problem with unexploded ordnance on the ground and our efforts to help remove that are also proceeding very rapidly," U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Randall Tobias said on Nov. 15. "At the time I was there, the estimate was that we had removed or assisted in the removal of about 50,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance."
Now that is unexploded ordnance of all types, not just cluster munitions.
(Note: you might want to read the rest of that article. It indicates that Lebanon's crisis is actually reaching a crucial phase.)
World news | Gaius November 27, 2006
By directorblue, November 28, 2006 @ 5:18 am
Par for the course for al-AP. They’ve gone beyond the pale with the terrorist-photog-stringers, the analysis disguised as news stories, and a host of other journalistic violations. This is just icing on the cake.
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