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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
So they concoct an easily disproved story about some guy I've never even given a thought to so they can have a good news story when Rice is in Iraq?
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It wasn't that easily disproved -- it took a tank and a bunch of troops to shoot up the house where it turned out the guy was being held, although they didn't know that at the time.
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Do you even think about how absurd your conspiracy theories get?
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How absurd is it to suggest that the Iraqi government made shit up and released it to the media, knowing that journalists aren't exactly combing the streets of the country to do investigative journalism? It's dangerous enough by the hotel pool. Not a gig I would want.
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In your professional life are you this uncaring about your credibiltiy?
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In the professional context, if I'm going to say that two published accounts contradict each other, I'll want to see them first. Here, I'm willing to see only one of them, and a blog refering to the other story. If you want to pay me my hourly rate to research my posts here, I'd be happy to do more research. But I can't even get you to pay for Preferred Subscriber status on my blog, with all of the free pictures of
"Japanese manhole covers" (IYKWIM) that would come with.
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Isn't the continuing installation of a government elected by the people a bit better story- I mean that part is true right?
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Have they not moved into their offices yet? Is there a safety problem, or are they just waiting for the interior designers to finish?
