From the 'you just can't make this stuff up' department

posted by The Vidiot @ 1:40 PM Permalink

US troops to get ethics training after Haditha

ETHICS training!? Pardon me but if you don't know that it's wrong to execute women and children I don't think a lecture is going to help.

Bush troubled by "Haditha Massacre"

Ohh, the poor baby is troubled, perhaps he should take some of those ethics classes.

U.S. Reverses Stand on Talks With Iranians

Great news right? Well, not so fast, here's the sub-head:

The White House insists first that uranium enrichment be halted.

So we'll talk to them about what we want them to do after they do it? Yet another example of the Bush Bizarro World.

Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Terror Case

Wow! What a headline from the AP! Sounds impressive doesn't it? Until you read the article and find out he pled guilty to an unrelated charge of a 2003 customs violation. This article by the LA Times is much closer to the truth:

Lodi Man Is Released in Plea Bargain

Federal prosecutors Wednesday agreed to drop terrorism-related charges against Lodi ice cream truck driver Umer Hayat in exchange for a guilty plea in a 2003 customs case.

My favorite part of the government's case?

The four-year investigation of Lodi's large Muslim community began in late 2001 after a Bend, Ore., convenience store clerk and former Lodi resident told FBI agents that he had seen known Al Qaeda terrorists worshiping in the Lodi mosque in 1999 and 2000.

The FBI quickly determined that the sightings were false but hired the store clerk, Pakistani Naseem Khan, as an undercover paid informant and sent him into the Lodi community, where he secretly recorded hundreds of hours of conversations with fellow Muslims. No evidence surfaced of any Al Qaeda connections.

The FBI hired Apu from the Kwik-E-Mart even after they knew he was a liar!? Sheesh, sounds like the FBI did a remake of Clerks!

And speaking of the fine job the AP does with accuracy and fairness, let's go to the swiftboating of Harry Reid.

Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending

Woo, sounds bad ... until you learn they weren't tickets, but credentials, it's illegal to pay for credentials and he and Mc Cain (RW religious panderer) co-sponsored legislation that would have established a national boxing commission, effectively marginalizing Nevada's.