Groundhog Day in Iraq: U.S. Military Press Releases Repeat Quotes

[Lannes]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000990675

Groundhog Day in Iraq: U.S. Military Press Releases Repeat Quotes

By E&P Staff

Published: July 24, 2005 10:45 PM ET

NEW YORK The U.S. military on Sunday said it was looking into how virtually identical quotations ended up in two of its news releases about different insurgent attacks. In each case the military quoted an Iraqi calling the attackers "enemies of humanity" and vowing to "take the fight to the terrorists," according to a CNN report.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/24/military.release/

Following a car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military issued a statement with a quote attributed to an unidentified Iraqi that was virtually identical to a quote reacting to an attack on July 13.

After questioning by reporters, the military released the statement without the quote.

Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, spokesman for the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, said use of the quote was an "administrative error."
E&P Staff

[earthboundmisfit]

1. Error as in "we didn't really think anybody'd catch it".

Guess they didn't wait as long as they usually do before recycling...

[Al-CIAda]

2. Are we now issuing 'talking points' to fictitious Iraqis?

Man, this is getting rediculous!

[madrchsod]

3. Good Morning Viet Nam !!!

amazing isn`t it?

[Lannes]

4. They arent even trying to lie convincingly anymore

They shovel this BS out and expect everyone to believe it.At least someone caught them.

[Al-CIAda]

5. I believe it was Americablog or Bradblog

that busted CNN for posting an exact same photo of an alleged North Korean Nuke site, and one in Iran. It was in the Jan-Feb time frame as I recall. Same photo, two places, oh my!

[Lannes]

6. I remember reading about that

Pretty sad.