Sunday, October 22, 2006

US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq

A remark from the US State Department that's hard to believe. Coming from the BBC, who got it from, wait for it, al Jazeera, yes it is hard to believe.

A senior US state department official has said that the US has shown "arrogance and stupidity" in Iraq.

Alberto Fernandez told al-Jazeera TV the US was now willing to talk to any insurgent group apart from al-Qaeda in Iraq, to reduce sectarian bloodshed.


There's more.

Mr Fernandez, an Arabic speaker who is director of public diplomacy in the state department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, told Qatar-based al-Jazeera that the world was "witnessing failure in Iraq".

"That's not the failure of the United States alone, but it is a disaster for the region," he said.

"I think there is great room for strong criticism, because without doubt, there was arrogance and stupidity by the United States in Iraq."

On talks with insurgent groups, he said: "We are open to dialogue because we all know that, at the end of the day, the solution to the hell and the killings in Iraq is linked to an effective Iraqi national reconciliation."


As usual, the BBC in their now admitted anti American and pro Islamist bias, fail to report some curcial information. The interview was in Arabic and Fernandez says it wasn't translated correctly.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, in Moscow with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, later said that Fernandez disputes the description of his comments.

"What he says is, that is not an accurate reflection of what he said," McCormack said. Asked whether the Bush administration believes that history will show a record of arrogance or stupidity in Iraq, McCormack replied "No."


The BBC is not alone in this fabrication. The AP after just reporting that Fernandez says he is not being translated correctly, goes on to report the incorrect translation!

The lying left wing meda are so arrogant that they just don't care and outright lie to the public. Yesterday I reported on the Guardian and Newsweek being caught lying in their Afghanistan reporting. And the BBC has admitted to lying in its Iraq reporting.

Paul Adams, the BBC's defence correspondent who is based at the coalition command centre in Qatar, complained that the corporation was conveying a untruthful picture of how the war was progressing. [...]

"I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering 'significant casualties'. This is simply not true," Adams said in the memo.

"Nor is it true to say - as the same intro stated - that coalition forces are fighting 'guerrillas'. It may be guerrilla warfare, but they are not guerrillas," he stormed.

"Who dreamed up the line that the coalition are achieving 'small victories at a very high price?' The truth is exactly the opposite. The gains are huge and costs still relatively low. This is real warfare, however one-sided, and losses are to be expected," Adams continued.


And now the BBC admits that it is anti American, anti British, pro Islamist and "is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals..."

What a national disgrace the BBC have become. Bad as that is, the BBC's aid to terrorists is far worse.

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