Weighing in on Newsweek

There are many international sources for the Quran being defiled at Guantanamo and denials by the U.S. military mean little; our government holds prisoners in violation of international law and denies them access to independent counsel or human rights groups. Their dismissal of such charges cannot be believed, as they have created an atmosphere of unrestrained torture.

(Washington Post, 3/26/03; London Guardian, 12/3/03; Daily Mirror, 3/12/04; Center for Constitutional Rights, 8/4/04; La Gazette du Maroc, 4/12/05; New York Times, 5/1/05; BBC, 5/2/05; cites compiled by Antiwar.com, 5/16/05).

What we're seeing is the right wing media creating a controversy where none exists.
What they want us to believe is that anonymous sources are fine, as long as they are promoting rather than challenging official government policy. It's all right for your reporting to be completely wrong, as long as your errors are in the service of power.

How can Newsweek be blamed for violence in Iraq when the US has conducted an illegal war there? How minuscule the Newsweek article is in relation to the egregious damage the US has intentionally performed.