Appropriate Sourcing by Kevin

This is the White Houses idea of it:

QUESTION: Does it concern the President that the primary source for the intelligence on the mobile biological weapons labs was a guy that U.S. intelligence never every interviewed?

MCCLELLAN: Well, again, all these issues will be looked at as part of a broad review by the independent commission that the President appointed… But it’s important that we look at what we learn on the ground and compare that with what we believed prior to going into Iraq.
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QUESTION: He’s the president of the United States. This thing he told the country on the verge of taking the nation to war has turned out to be, by your own account, not reliable. That’s his fault, isn’t it?

MCCLELLAN: No.

And this says pretty much all that needs to be said about those comparing Newsweeks erros with the Bush case for war

So now there’s a bunch of right-wingers who are pitching the desecrated Koran riot story with the line “Newsweek Lied, People Died.”

Get it? It’s funny, because it’s making fun of what all the anti-war people said when 1,700 Americans were killed based on lies they were warned about but didn’t listen to. What, don’t you have a fucking sense of humor?

This isn’t even not caring. It’s beyond not caring. It’s taking pride in not caring.

To sit there, and act as if the soldiers were being treated as liberators and loved without anger until Newsweek came in and screwed it all up- I mean, seriously. Why not just go up to an American serviceman, kick him in the genitals, and then take a shit into his mouth. That’s about an equal amount of respect you would have to have for the troops to pass one off like that. American soldiers aren’t dying in Iraq because Newsweek printed a bad article. American soldiers are dying in Iraq because American soldiers are in Iraq, you fucking lunatics.