"Some of these grenades are rumored to be coming in from Iran..."I guess it's important to keep all rumors "on the table."
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Rumors
I thought that NPR's spring 2007 campaign to convince listeners that Iran was running and supplying the Iraqi insurgency (April 11, 2007 and May 26, 2007 for example) was a thing of the past. But dang, on Friday's ATC Quil Lawrence is in Iraq talking up the dangers of the small, lethal shaped-charge RKG-3 grenades, which have been used against US forces for years (this from 2006), as if they were something new - and he casually slips in the following:
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Do people like Lawrence ever think about how ridiculous "rumored to be" sounds coming from someone who is rumored to be a journalist?
You mean like Nationalistic Propaganda Rumors?
Nevertheless, the rumor mill is having significant success. That's why higher ups have strategically confined the Shepard controversy to one person, who's on a planned obsolescence path anyway.
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