Pentagon admits to making up bogus quote from "Iraqi" for news releases

[BurtWorm]

The make-believe Iraqi used words similar to Bush's when describing two separate attacks. Someone noticed the identical wording in two releases and the Pentagon had to admit it was still fixing facts around the policy.

These liars have to be brought to justice. They have to be.




http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/25/military.release/index.html


Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, spokesman for the 3rd Infantry Division, also spoke Sunday of an "administrative error."

Kent did not explain why the quote apparently was changed to apply to the latest attack.

Below are the two news releases from the U.S. military with the similar quotes:

From Sunday:

" 'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified."

From July 13:

" 'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. 'They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.' "

[earthboundmisfit]

1. This is just fucking ridiculous.

Withholding REAL information while manufacturing false information.
Makes you wanna slap the shit out of all those involved!

[Horse with no Name]

2. Do these bastards EVER tell the truth?

and why do I feel the only people that see it are in a vacuum?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. the truth will set you free.

MIght makes right.
That nasty Iraq was about to attack
"We know where they are. Around Baghdad. To the south and to the north. We'll find them."

It is most unfortunate that, partly out of our own honor, and our own gullibility, even when we catch them in a blatant lie, we still believe them on other matters.

[KarenS]

4. With this Administration, the Truth will get them thrown out !!! n/t

[JDPriestly]

5. Chicanery!

All for show and no substance. Do these people live their whole lives as publicity stunts. I just don't get it.

The Bush administration is like a really bad Grade F movie. I have heard that Bush once had something to do with a production company. I wonder if you can get copies of the films it made or tried to make. It was called "Silver Screen Management Services, Inc." and it funded 21 R-rated movies including "Shoot to Kill," also possibly "Dead Poets Society," and "The Hitcher." http://dir.salon.com/politics/trail/2000/09/15/trail_mix/index.html
Hatfield, Fortunate Son, page 89

Assuming this is true and I have no reason to believe it is not, I wonder who worked with Bush in that company and what he did while associated with them?