Posted on 05/16/2005 2:02:57 PM PDT by kcvl
Per Fox News...
too bad Newzweak cant officially "unmurder" now isn't it!
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A group of Afghan Muslim clerics threatened on Sunday to call for a holy war against the United States if it fails to hand over in three days military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran . . .
I'll accept any quibling over whether it is man1, man2, involuntary man1, etc that isn't the point. Also, I'll accept that speeding on the expressway is different from speeding on a residential street.
Newsweak was speeding on a residential street. Extradite them to Afghanistan to stand trial. If they are found innocent or guilty is up to the Afghans.
"What good will this do? People have already died and our country's reputation has taken another hit because of their treasonous article. This should NOT be the end of the story."
We as tax payers have spent BILLIONS on good PR in the Middle East, and what Newsweek did was definately a blow to that. How completely thoughtless and un-American. Now, I would say that Bush should go on TV and tell the world that the viewpoints expressed were by the minority of our population, just as we know the terrorists are a minority of Muslims.
I have insisted that they cancel my subscription. I know, I know, but please don't blame me, I got it for free.
Shaken by the storm of criticism over the magazine's "flushing of the Koran" story last week, Newsweek's editors apologized and vowed to continue their investigation into military interrogation abuses. Today that continued investigation paid off.
"The trail of abusive interrogation is longer than we thought," said Newsweek's editor Mark Whitaker.
Living in a nursing home on the outskirts of Jersey City Newsweek reporters found one Joe Giamani, World War II veteran and former U.S. Army Inteliigence officer. Under intensive questioning, Mr. Giamani admitted he had forced German POWs to use pages of Mein Kampf as toilet paper--cruelly desecrating the ideals for which the German troops fought and died in their efforts to save the world from international Jewry. "It was the only paper item we allowed them to have. Eventually, they had to use it to wipe themselves," said Giamani.
Unrepentent, Giamani wished he had thought of putting women's underwear on the Germans' heads, but observed in his own defense, "Women's underwear wasn't as handy in those days in the all-male units favored by the Army brass."
Whitaker was unable to produce any evidence substantiating the Koran flushing claim. "This earlier incident, though, shows that a similar pattern of abuse has occurred in the past and, by inference, strongly implies that we could easily imagine it reoccurring in the current context," says Whitaker.
"This isn't the end of it," asserted Whitaker. "We've got leads to other sources."
One of these leads is the granddaughter of a World War I veteran who may have mooned German troops during 1917's brief Christmas ceasefire.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3mi.htm
Isikoff "...The big point that leaps out is the cultural one. Neither NEWSWEEK nor the Pentagon foresaw that a reference to the desecration of the Koran was going to create the kind of response that it did."
What planet does this guy live on?
a) Planes into buildings
b) Fatwahs against writers
c) Destruction of antiquities
d) Hourly chants of "Great Satan, Great Satan"
Oh sorry. Only a journalist would recognize this. My bad.
Isikoff to story's reporter: "You told me they would just write a letter of protest to the editor. SHEESH! Call that home security company that Ollie North used. Better yet, call my realtor."
If an atrocity falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it an atrocity?
If an atrocity does not fall in the forest but somebody hears it anyway, is it an atrocity?
Now we know why the French invented bidets
LOL. They are heading the same direction as their story said the Qu'ran took.
It's way past Time to flush Newspeak .... and the rest of the MSM
The purpose of Newspeak was to drastically reduce the number of words in the English language in order to eliminate ideas that were deemed dangerous and, most importantly, seditious to the totalitarian dictator, Big Brother and the Party. "Thoughtcrime," the mere act of thinking about ideas like Freedom or Revolution, was punishable by torture and brainwashing. Newspeak was the sinister answer. A character in 1984 describes it succinctly: "Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it... The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought as we understand it now."
I know what the author was hoping his readers would think. I was just rephrasing it into the position I think he was really trying to defend.
They don't know any better.
(Education bump?)
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