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Newsweek backtracks on Koran claims ("People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said.")
The Australian ^ | 5/17

Posted on 05/16/2005 1:15:52 PM PDT by ambrose

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To: RobRoy

>>US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forced to declare that mistreatment of the Koran was "abhorrent" to right-thinking Americans.<<

Well gee. Apparently Ms. Rice really IS a politician.

I guess I am "left thinking" in her book.

*****

Your thinking seems also flawed!

It cost nothing NOT to antagonized your neightbor in the world....but than you I don't think you will ever get it!


21 posted on 05/16/2005 1:29:11 PM PDT by restornu (“No president in American history understood the timber of the American character better than Reagan)
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To: Ignatz

I heard someone (Tony Snow?) mention this morning that the 'other news organisations' were Al Jazeera and some Russian outfit. No more or less credibility there than with the mainstream news in this country any more.


22 posted on 05/16/2005 1:31:09 PM PDT by SelmaLee
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To: Snidely Whiplash

Yeah, I hear you. It's been in foreign papes for a year or so.

I knew about this stuff wayyyyy before Newsweak, but I wouldn't incite a riot over it....


23 posted on 05/16/2005 1:32:06 PM PDT by yama426 (MX much?)
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To: ambrose

24 posted on 05/16/2005 1:32:23 PM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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To: Snidely Whiplash
How is one offended by something that never actually happened?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

25 posted on 05/16/2005 1:32:39 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: restornu

>>It cost nothing NOT to antagonized your neightbor in the world....but than you I don't think you will ever get it!<<

You are right of course. I like to call a spade a spade and let the chips fall where they may.

I was the little boy who shouted that "the emperor has no clothes."


26 posted on 05/16/2005 1:33:58 PM PDT by RobRoy (Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
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To: beethovenfan
"I'm sure the MOOOOSlims treat the Bible with the utmost respect."

Even if the moo-slimes don't treat the Bible with respect, its not a blasphemy punishable by death in any Christian religion that I know of.

But then maybe we just aren't nuanced enough to understand the Religion of Peace.

27 posted on 05/16/2005 1:34:37 PM PDT by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: Ignatz

It's been reported in the telegraph (.co.uk) and some other foreign media (.au sites) for over a year. Just hasn't cropped up in the USMSM.

To me, its grosser to smear menstrual blood on someone, but that's just me.

Nothing to see here, move along...


28 posted on 05/16/2005 1:35:49 PM PDT by yama426 (MX much?)
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To: expatguy
How is one offended by something that never actually happened?

Oh, you know--it's not the truth of the charges but the seriousness of the allegations, blah, blah, blah...

29 posted on 05/16/2005 1:36:22 PM PDT by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Newsweek lied; people died.
--Turk 182

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

30 posted on 05/16/2005 1:37:10 PM PDT by mhking ("Today, we're gonna do things the RIGHT way...")
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To: ambrose


Michael Isikoff

Born: c. 1952

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist

Level of fame: Niche
Executive summary: Newsweek reporter

http://www.nndb.com/people/859/000043730/


This Isikoff?

31 posted on 05/16/2005 1:37:37 PM PDT by G.Mason ( Save the Republic from the shallow, demagogic sectarians.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You can't unring a bell. Newsweak isn't going to paywhere near the price this country as a whole will. This is on a par with Abu Ghraib in the muslim world.


32 posted on 05/16/2005 1:39:07 PM PDT by Trust but Verify (Pull up a chair and watch history being made.)
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To: SelmaLee

It's been reported in the telegraph (.co.uk) and some other foreign media (.au sites) for over a year. Just hasn't cropped up in the USMSM.


To me, its grosser to smear menstrual blood on someone, but that's just me...



33 posted on 05/16/2005 1:39:58 PM PDT by yama426 (MX much?)
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To: ambrose
...Despite Newsweak's about-turn, the Pentagon has yet to state officially that no mistreatment of the Koran by interrogators took place at Guantanamo Bay...

This would be like trying to answer the old "are you still beating your wife" question.

34 posted on 05/16/2005 1:41:20 PM PDT by Chinito (6990th Security Group, RC-135/Combat Apple, Class of '68)
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To: yama426

Bah, double post. Sorry!


35 posted on 05/16/2005 1:42:04 PM PDT by yama426 (MX much?)
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To: ambrose

Pal, for those who are devout, The Book is holy.


36 posted on 05/16/2005 1:42:38 PM PDT by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: randog

It is late here now. Actually early morning. Im gonna grab some sleep, but tomorrow Im going to completely expose this entire drama of carefully exploited events.


37 posted on 05/16/2005 1:44:11 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: ambrose

You can't bring back a loved one due to a reporter having his head up his arse, but you can make the be-aches pay BIG TIME in court based on the violence this false story generated. So much for, "what liberal media bias" because they are killing our soldiers with their lying venomous anti American words.


38 posted on 05/16/2005 1:44:24 PM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: combat_boots

Any state deparment Blame America firster can be cited for any anti-american story as an anonymous source. Isn't the Lib media grand!


39 posted on 05/16/2005 1:46:39 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: konaice

And it's Americans who are supposed to be the reactionaries.
These people who riot and kill over nonsense like this are the ones the media is always telling us are more sophisticated than us hillbilly Americans.


40 posted on 05/16/2005 1:46:45 PM PDT by threeleftsmakearight
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