Bush's Turkey Farm/Lybia/50 tons/mustard gas - no gas/no farm/ not 50 ton?

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-bush-mistakes.html

Bush Makes Three Mistakes While Trying to Cite One
By REUTERS

Published: April 15, 2004

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - <snip>Bush, long known for his grammatical conundrums and confusing phraseology, told reporters twice during Tuesday's prime-time news conference that 50 tons of mustard gas were discovered at a turkey farm in Libya..."They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm," said Bush, referring to Libya's voluntary disclosure of weapons in March.

The next day, the White House said the accurate figure for the Libyan mustard gas was 23.6 metric tons, or 26 short tons, not 50 tons.

Moreover, the substance was found at different locations across Libya, not at a turkey farm. And observers did not find mustard gas on the farm at all, but rather unfilled chemical munitions, the White House acknowledged.

"The president misspoke and we just want to correct the record," explained White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

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[ewagner]

1. lessee here........

Condi read him the story...He didn't UNDERSTAND IT BUT assumed HIS VERSION was right because he WANTED IT TO BE RIGHT....then blurts it out in the press conference to impress everybody that he knows something they don't. He's wrong...he's even wrong about what he's wrong about......

typical Bush clusterf****,.

[xchrom]

2. i want the media horse whipped

when the day comes -- there's lowering the damn bar and then there's making the bar disappear altogether in bush's case.
what idiots.

[Beetwasher]

3. And they Criticized GORE????

So, he got the ENTIRE thing wrong??? I knew there was something fishy about that Turkey farm mustard gas bullshit.

[papau]

4. WH and AP still trying to sell mustard gas - unlike truthfull Reuters!

Seems it is all in the editing!

:-)

[damnraddem]

5. Maybe someone had put ...

mustard on his turkey sandwich that day. After that, he just couldn't separate the two ideas: turkeys and mustard.

I suspect that over fifty tons of gas were expelled into the East Room during the news conference.