Newsweek, the White House, and desecration of the Koran

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Newsweek, the White House, and desecration of the Koran

The Bushies /made/ Koran desecration a bigger story in the US (it was apparently already big in the Arab media) when they decided to blame Newsweek for people dying during violent demonstrations in Afghanistan -- as if the Afghans weren't pissed enough at us already.

I think the Bushies (and by this I mean the brains behind the right-wing message, presumably Karl Rove but I really don't know) were trying to create another "Rathergate," making Newsweek into the story and thereby silencing anyone else who might want to report on the original issue. They were amazingly successful; nobody's talking about Bush's military record anymore.

But they've overreached here. 'The case that "Newsweek lied, people died" rested in its entirety on the denial of a single Pentagon spokesman.' (from this story.)

Even for those of us who hate the current administration, abuse of unconvicted prisoners (for that's what this equates to in the public's mind) is much more reprehensible than whether George W. Bush slacked off in the seventies.

Saturday, June 4. 2005
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