Re: (IRAQ) RE: Name calling vs. Ad Hominem

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 08:19:11 MDT

  • Next message: Mike Lorrey: "Re: [IRAQ] RE: Name Calling vs. Ad Hominem"

    --- Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
    > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:39:43PM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
    >
    > > An example of fake reporting by the left is the whole museum
    > looting
    > > episode. The left bought the claims of the Baathist director of the
    > > museum that 170,000 priceless antiquities had been looted without
    > any
    > > fact checking. It turns out that most all items had been securely
    > > stored across town as per government plan. The actual number of
    > items
    > > stolen: 27. Yup, 27. And this isn't counting the many items made of
    > > precious metals and gems which are now suspected to be fake
    > > replacements for items looted by Saddam over the last several
    > decades.
    >
    > What's your source for this 27? Googling news on "antiquities" found
    > an article saying US authorities have recovered 700 artifacts, 46
    > brought back by a single Iraqi.

    Last week there was a blurb on both CNN and FOX. Don't have a link.
    Even if the amount missing is in the range of a few thousand, that is
    still two entire magnitudes difference from that claimed by the
    Baathist museum director, a claim which was not cross checked by leftie
    media. That is a rather huge gap, tantamount to saying a criminal
    suspect going to the corner drug store for smokes is a hundred miles
    from home and fleeing arrest, or ten times worse than making a claim
    that 42 children are killed by gunfire every day in the US.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                        - Gen. John Stark
    Blog: Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.blogspot.com/
    Flight sims: http://www.x-plane.org/greendragon
    Pro-tech freedom discussion:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exi-freedom

    __________________________________
    Do you Yahoo!?
    The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
    http://search.yahoo.com



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue May 13 2003 - 08:31:21 MDT