Tram Town
Saturday, October 08, 2005
| Category: BBC The headline for an Age article dated 70ct2005: God told me to invade, says Bush. The first par: US PRESIDENT George Bush has said that he was instructed by God to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new BBC series.So it wasn't a direct quote of Bush as unambiguously claimed in the headline, rather they are relying on a translation of a memory of a memory of a translation (or something like that). The Independent doesn't even allow that it is just a claim stating: President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.Of course if they had waited until an official statement came from the white house they would have discovered a denial which might have added some balance to the story. Laurence Simon asks: Will there be repercussions for this baldfaced lie by the spokesliar for an entire society of deathcultist, bloodthirsty liars?I can't find any report of the Whitehouse denial in today's Age; I'm sure that they are more than happy for the "strange-voices-in-my-head-telling-me-what-to-do" meme to perpetuate. |
