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Originally Posted by Billybob
Damn Jim, really you can’t do better than regurgitating that worn totemic of the America hating left! One of the earliest fabricated quotes by none other than the thoroughly discredited CNN/ NBC/Saddam Hussein Propagandist/ Peter Arnett! Yeah that Peter Arnett the one who later also infamously fabricated the Operation Tailwind (US using SARIN gas to a exterminate a Laotian village containing American deserters circa 1970!) story that humiliated CNN, from which he was never again seen! NBC obviously considered all this sterling credentials and posted him to Bagdad! From which he was fired!
It didn’t happen! The town of 50,000, not a village of Ben Tre was not destroyed but heavily damaged, only a few Americans where involved in the fighting there. The New York Times ran Arnett’s AP dispatch with the fabricated quote to which Arnett attributed to an “unidentified officer”, it has to be noted that to this day Arnett has steadfastly refused to identify the source of his “fabriciquotation”
Pages 43 & 44
The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when
By Ralph Keyes
http://books.google.com/books?id=d6JZryGvfxYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+quote+verifier:+who+said+what,+where,+and+when+By+Ralph+Keyes&cd=1&hl=en#v=onepage&q=&f=false |
Arnett worked for AP during the Viet Nam war. CNN didn't exist at the time. Arnett later worked for CNN for 18 years, so your suggestion that CNN was "humiliated" and Arnett was "never seen again" is glaringly false.
According to your linked article, Army Major Phill Canella told Arnett "it was a shame the town was destroyed". Again your suggestion it didn't happen is just plain wrong.