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To: SilentZ who wrote (233346)	5/18/2005 10:58:01 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

"I never would've thought it could've happened so quickly.." When the gargoyles take over, they are nothing if not swift... Supposedly there is a line in the new Star Wars that goes something like this, "This is how liberty dies -- to thunderous applause.". If true, the George might have managed to actually pen a good line.

To: SilentZ who wrote (233346)	5/18/2005 12:45:13 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573901

THE BOTTOM LINE <snip> "We have yet to see what's at the root, if anything, of the Newsweek story. But I think it's telling that some bloggers have devoted much, much more energy to covering the Newsweek error than they ever have to covering any sliver of the widespread evidence of detainee abuse that made the Newsweek piece credible in the first place. A simple question: after U.S. interrogators have tortured over two dozen detainees to death, after they have wrapped one in an Israeli flag, after they have smeared naked detainees with fake menstrual blood, after they have told one detainee to '[Expletive] Allah,' after they have ordered detainees to pray to Allah in order to kick them from behind in the head, is it completely beyond credibility that they would also have desecrated the Koran? "Yes, Newsweek bears complete responsibility for any errors it has made; and, depending on what we now find, should not be let off the hook. But the outrage from the White House is beyond belief. It seems to me particularly worrying if this incident further intimidates the press from seeking the truth about what the government is doing in the war on terror." andrewsullivan.com