August 16, 2007

CNN's Dan Rivers inadvertently voices a taboo truth

This morning while reporting from Iraq about the recent truck bombs that may have killed as many as 500 and injured many more, Dan Rivers said the attack was "the biggest terrorist attack since the invasion four years ago," inadvertently speaking the truth that must never be uttered by corporate media, which is that the US invasion of Iraq is by far the largest terrorist attack of the new century.  

Update August 22: from the NYT article Toll Rises Above 500 in Iraq Bombings

One week after a series of truck bombs hit a poor rural area near the Syrian border, the known casualty toll has soared to more than 500 dead and 1,500 wounded, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, making it the bloodiest coordinated attack since the American-led invasion in 2003.

Stray Thoughts from Don Alejandro
Who sometimes thinks "shock and awe" was just a warm-up exercise and wonders if Bush has set his sights on Truman's record

Also see: Terrorist Nation? It Takes One to Know One