From KOS - is Bush lying about Iran and the EFP's - We need to ask the WP why it was deleted.

[OregonBlue]

EFP factory found. Why did WaPo delete the report?

Sat Apr 07, 2007 at 11:57:27 AM PDT

I had noticed this today from Reuters:

"Iraqi army soldiers swept into the city of Diwaniya early this morning to disrupt militia activity and return security and stability of the volatile city back to the government of Iraq," the US military said in a statement. Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs), a particularly deadly type of explosive that can destroy a main battle tank and several weapons caches.

NOTE:the Reuters story was changed at some point during the day.MAIN REUTERS SITE.

I posted it at my blog, thinking that this was a pretty important item as it shoots a pretty big hole in one of Bush/Abrams' main propaganda stories about Iran.

Turns out there is even more to this story.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/7/145727/8998

[babylonsister]

1. Rec'd. So the factory proves the Iraqis are making their own EFPs, and

Reuters/WaPo modifed their stories to hide that fact, blaming the EFPs on Iran?

:wow: Pretty blatant info manipulation, and the media is just as culpable as the admin.
I wonder if Reuters gave their blessings to the change?

[ShortnFiery]

3. By propping up The Military Industrial Complex and Bush's War

The M$M is every bit as Treasonous as our Unitary Executive.

I guarantee you that every member of The Unitary Executive would be out of office and we'd be saying "President Pelosi" IF we truly had a Fourth Estate, i.e., a free and fair media.

Today, Face The Nation was sponsored by Lockheed Martin who WE (Americans' Tax Dollars) are working for not vice versa! :wow: :grr:

Any questions? :nuke:

[OregonBlue]

4. Here's the email and phone number for WP ombudsman. Contact her!!

The current Post Ombudsman is Deborah Howell . You can reach her by e-mail at

[e-mail]

or by phone at 202-334-7582.

[tbyg52]

5. Wow. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more blatant.

:wow:



It's the corporations, stupid!

[peacetalksforall]

2. So did the call come from the same cell in the WH-RNC - instead

of slipping something in (a la legislation), they slipped something out?

[Morgana LaFey]

6. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.

There ought to be some way to hold the press more accountable for this kind of thing. They have a privileged place in American society, according to the Constitution itself, and yet they do NOT fulfill their responsibilities which are NOT to promote propaganda but to inform the people.

I've about had it. Thank Goddess for the Internets.

[arikara]

7. It goes way deeper than just the media being complicit

I want to know who actually pulls the strings.

The corporations, the media, the government AND the kinder gentler opposition all have us dancing to their tune. Be very afraid... but keep on consuming.

[malaise]

8. Simple

the existence of the factory exposes their lies about Iran. BBC carried a full report earlier today. They too have changed the story.

[Seattleman]

9. You don't need to look any further than "Shock and Awe"

The media was ga-ga about "Shock and Awe", but somehow they forgot to tell us that it is actually a word in a foreign language.

Google away.