re: #527 Fozzie Bear

I’m just responding to a false claim as I come across it.

In 2003, Tony Blair made a speech (actually a series of speeches) in which he said “We’ve already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.’ This is a complete fabrication. As for 2004, a year later, 5,000 bodies had been found in mass graves in Iraq. The number is probably higher now, a few years later. Now, that’s still very bad, but I find it interesting that so many people still refer to thoroughly discredited accounts, and the accounts of people who have lied to the public repeatedly regarding Iraq, including Blair, for statistics on this issue.

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk…]

There’s nothing in the water other than an aversion to manufactured statistics, quoted from sources that have already been repeatedly shamed publicly for their blatant dissembling and dishonesty. Namely: Blair.

Ah, Ok, thanks for the info.

As far as the responding to false claims as you see them:

It was posted by Gus at 244.

My response was 11 comments later at 256.

And you’re the SECOND person in this thread to bring it up from my comment rather than the actual first comment where it appeared. And the first one who did called me a liar when I pointed out to him that I didn’t make the original comment. So, yeah - I’m thinking something’s in the water.