-- James A. Donald wrote:
but his claim was that the US was nowhere near the airport,
On 10 Apr 2003 at 22:35, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
His claim was that he couldn't see them, and that even the mainstream reports put them many kilometers away, if you read them carefully.
A truthful report would have read as follows: "US claimed its forces were on the outskirts of the Airport. The minister for information denied that US forces were anywhere near reported, and offered to permit newsmen to tour the airport. The ministry of information minders took the the newsmen to the airport lounge, but did not permit them to get anywhere near the outskirts of the airport, let alone tour it, which shows the minister to be lying about permitting newsmen to see for themselves, which would suggest the minister is lying the location of US forces, and the US telling the truth. Instead, Fisk conspicuously fails to mention that the minders are controlling the newsmen in a way that prevents them from knowing what he claims to know, and instead proclaims that the minister is telling the truth, and the US lying Fisk omits critical facts, and confidently claims to know what he was not permitted to know. The one is a lie of omission, the other a lie of commission. Fisk conceals from his readers the fact that it is impossible to check on the lies of a totalitarian state, and denies barefaced the fact that promises to allow such checking are always lies. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG r1bxpJ7VZETqopavASLrWpcoBbAT8s1kyWEEd3bw 4QwAleCULDpfKQBa3TU6SXNZetICTYpqbww+2vya/