PolitiFact Pulls ..‘Mostly True’ Rating of ..Kerry’s Claim of Eliminating Syrian Chemical Weapons

Breitbart ^ | 04/07/2017 | Charlie Nash

[ForYourChildren]

PolitiFact has pulled a 2014 fact-check on remarks about Syria by former Secretary of State John Kerry after the claim the Obama administration “got ‘100 percent’ of chemical weapons out of Syria” turned out to be false. In a post about the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, PolitiFact admitted, “The outcry leads us to revisit a 2014 claim from former Secretary of State John Kerry.”

“Kerry said in a television interview that in Syria, ‘we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.’ Syria had agreed in 2013 to an ambitious program to destroy its chemical stockpiles under international supervision, as part of a deal brokered by Russia,” they explained. “When Kerry spoke in July 2014, the process seemed far along. Based on reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — which later won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts — we rated that claim Mostly True. There were caveats about incomplete information, but at the time, international experts said the claim largely held up.”

“Given recent events, we have pulled that fact-check (you can read an archived version here) because we now have many unanswered questions,” the fact-checking site declared.

[Blennos]

"Mostly true is slightly false."

Exactly. "9X9 = 80" is mostly true, almost true, close to being true. But, in fact, it is false. Truth is a pristine concept. There are no compromises.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Oops, can’t pass that off as a “fact” now...