Typical
Per this:
As a second Canadian aid worker — a woman who was an outspoken advocate for the welfare of children in war zones — died from injuries sustained in Tuesday’s bomb attack against the UN in Baghdad, a row erupted over the security failure at the compound, with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan saying U.S. forces should have known to patrol the area.
It’s all Bush’s fault, I am sure.
Update: I was kidding but apparently Kerry and Graham are saying it is Bush’s fault.
August 21st, 2003 at 11:26 am
Screw them. Annan admitted they refused extra security so they could all feel the love. CBS radio reported that the truck was able to drive right up to the building.
August 22nd, 2003 at 12:30 am
the good thing about being the biggest bully on the block is that you can pick and choose what to take seriously…
August 23rd, 2003 at 3:25 am
SayUncle, I think you need to add a second update to this post. I was surprised that Kerry and Graham would blame Bush for the bombing when the U.N. apparently had taken responsibility for security of the building, so I went to the article and read more than the headline “Kerry, Graham fault Bush in Deadly Baghdad Bombing.” I’m guessing you didn’t .
In the whole article, there was not a single quote by either candidate that referenced the bombing. This is the only Kerry quote in the whole piece:
“It is becoming increasingly clear each day that the administration misread the situation on the ground in Iraq and lacks an adequate plan to win the peace and protect our troops.”
He was obviously asked for a reaction to the bombing and RESISTED (appropriately) pinning it on the administration, saying only what he has been saying for weeks and months now. And which is rather obvious and hardly even controversial.
Graham came closer, but same goes for the only quote of his that’s given:
”Had the president pursued the war on terrorism prior to initiating military action against Saddam Hussein — as I advocated last year — it is likely that al Qaeda and other terrorist networks would not have been able to take advantage of the chaos that now exists in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq,” Mr. Graham said.
Same thing — he was asked for a reaction to the bombing and said (in part) well, yeah, the chaos that we’re seeing over there now is what I was concerned about last year when I was advocating an alternate strategy to the administration’s decision to go to war. He didn’t specify or even mention the U.N. bombing.
The article itself strikes me as unbiased and unremarkable — yet the headline is an utter misrepresentation of its contents. This is the common modus operandi of the Washington Times (and FOX News) — take a story and twist it enough to politicize it in the desired way, and label it as such, knowing that 95% of their consumers won’t care to poke beneath the headline.
SayUncle, I disagree with you most of the time, but I generally respect the tone with which you conduct your blog. I don’t think you would have posted this knowing how misleading it was.