I watched the Bush Blair news conference on Thursday. I have it on tape and saved to my computer’s hard drive.
That’s how I know that the story by Steven Edwards of CanWest News Service at the National Post contains very misleading information. On purpose—because this is clearly not a typo.
Here’s the link to the story, which I’ve also saved to my hard drive.
Speaking a day after he and U.S. President George W. Bush admitted to crucial errors in the execution of the Iraq war, Blair suggested an effective UN might have made their unilateral action unnecessary.
In actual fact, when asked by a reporter (with another of those usual salivating liberal media’s tendentious get Bush questions) what errors he made or regrets he had, Bush admitted that he wished he didn’t say “Bring it on”, and that he didn’t say “dead or alive”.
That’s what “crucial errors” the President “admitted to”, “in the execution of the Iraq war”.
And President Bush didn’t describe it as a “crucial error” —“in the execution of the Iraq war”— the reporter, Steven Edwards of CanWest News Service did. Bush said his words sent the “wrong signal to people”. “In certain parts of the world, it was misinterpreted,” he said. That’s all. The National Post reported it themselves the day before, here. They quoted him:
“I learned some lessons about expressing myself in a more sophisticated manner. Wanted dead or alive, that kind of talk.” he said. “I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted. So I learned from that.”
I believe that the reporter, Steven Edwards of CanWest News Service, and the National Post, hoped for us to take from that that Bush admitted to much more than that —something actually “crucial” —like starting the Iraq War or handling it the way it was handled or to use their words, “crucial errors” made “in the execution of the Iraq war”. But of course they didn’t allude to the words Bush uttered the day before, in this story. They just said “U.S. President George W. Bush admitted to crucial errors in the execution of the Iraq war,” and left it to the readers to imagine.
I’ll await the apology from the newspaper and the reporter, Steven Edwards, CanWest News Service, for what I think is this misleading information because I’m sure they don’t want to mislead Canadians since their job is to inform Canadians about the facts.
Or am I just being “petulant”?
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