Cox & Forkum: Flushed
Great cartoon from Cox & Forkum, along with comments from the news and bloggers about the brewing fiasco arising from Newsweek's erroneous report from an anonymous source about investigators flushing the Qu'ran down a toilet.
Instapundit has a lot more on the subject.
Update: Andrew Sullivan has some words about what is being overlooked in commentary about Newsweek's error.
posted by Doc at 9:52 AM
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It's not clear that the Newsweek story caused the riots in Pakistan. In fact, those that they one caused the other are are also drawing hasty conclusions. But that's just my own reality based bias speaking.
The hypocrisy of the right regarding this story is staggering. George Bush and his neo-cons started with a conclusion (Iraq has WMDs), relied on faulty intelligence to prove their hypothesis, then lauched an unnecessary and costly war. Newsweek relied on a government source to run a story whose basic premise - abuse of prisoners - jibed with what we know about other abuse cases. This is truly a tempest in a teapot.
That's all true. Total hypocrisy by the Bushies to draw attention away from their numerous problems. That's the point Sullivan and others are trying to make.
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