Lies, damned lies, and The Independent

Over the next few days, you're going to hear a lot about Paul Wolfowitz's alleged "admission" that the WMD issue was just a pretext the Americans used to go to war, "for bureaucratic reasons".

That was a blockbuster story in The Independent today. And it's complete bullshit. Charles Johnson has a link to the full transcript of the Wolfowitz interview, and the way the Daily Fisk (and/or Vanity Fair, which originally quoted Wolfowitz in an article scheduled to run in the July issue) took his comments out of context is absolutely shocking.

(Of course, the Pentagon itself released the full transcript of the Vanity Fair interview. Will that satisfy the IndyMedia/Independent/Bush-is-Hitler crowd? I doubt it.)

Posted by damian at May 30, 2003 06:27 PM