Besides the rampant misinformation and complete demogoguery regarding Dubai ports, as one shell company effectively replaces another, now we wake up this morning to hear the AP furiously getting it wrong on yet another count...
"Iraq on the verge of civil war," the radio news announcer gleefully notes, with a hint of raspberry-lime "we told you so" clearly audible.
It is? Really? Well, not according to Omar at Iraq the Model... it would seem that any one of the things he's mentioned might have been discovered by our AP information betters...
1. Sistani has forbidden revenge attacks.
2. Attacks occurring are predictably Sadrist.
3. Talabani pledged to rebuild the shrine out of his own pocket.
And there's more, not that I'd want to try to steal Omar's thunder... but you'd think that maybe somebody in the media might have clued into at least one of these things, you know, since they have all these resources devoted to finding out what's going on and all, and not immediately jumped to conclusions...
But, nope, that would involve reporters and the news actually doing their jobs.
Put one more on the blogosphere's scoreboard. Unfortunately. (But, good on you, Omar!)
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