reede, aprill 16, 2004
Not Exactly a Lie, But Even More Wrong
According to Al Kamen's "In the Loop" column in today's Washington Post, Bush's comment about mustard gas on a Libyan turkey farm was pretty much entirely false:
Meanwhile, Bush, in his news conference Tuesday, showed he was ready to raise the level of his play in this arena.
Bush found a way to make not one, not two, but three factual errors in a single 15-word sentence, which must be something of a world indoor record. Bush said it is still possible that inspectors will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm," he said, referring to Libya's WMD disclosures last month.
The White House, according to Reuters, said the accurate figure was 23.6 metric tons or 26 tons, not 50. The stuff was found at various locations, not at a turkey farm. And there was no mustard gas on the farm at all, but unfilled chemical munitions.
Other than that, the sentence was spot on.
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According to Al Kamen's "In the Loop" column in today's Washington Post, Bush's comment about mustard gas on a Libyan turkey farm was pretty much entirely false:
Meanwhile, Bush, in his news conference Tuesday, showed he was ready to raise the level of his play in this arena.
Bush found a way to make not one, not two, but three factual errors in a single 15-word sentence, which must be something of a world indoor record. Bush said it is still possible that inspectors will find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm," he said, referring to Libya's WMD disclosures last month.
The White House, according to Reuters, said the accurate figure was 23.6 metric tons or 26 tons, not 50. The stuff was found at various locations, not at a turkey farm. And there was no mustard gas on the farm at all, but unfilled chemical munitions.
Other than that, the sentence was spot on.
