hm, so the whole "terrorists have plans for American schools" was bogus

[Nordic]

Data found in Iraq no risk to schools, FBI says

Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Federal officials said today there is no terrorist connection to a computer disk found in Iraq that contained information about schools in six states.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2836636

Saw this in an itty-bitty article on page gazillion in the LA times yesterday.

Pisses me off, the whole "keep america scared" thing predominating the news media today, and they bury the retraction.

[riverwalker]

1. turns out they found floorplans for American schools

in the computer of a guy in charge of building Iraqi schools.

[Nordic]

3. when the hell is the press gonna learn to question the koolaid?

All Americans heard was "terrorists probably want to blow up our schoolkids!!!"

I bet almost nobody heard the retraction.

This is the kind of crap that just pisses me the hell off to no end.

I wouldn't have caught it myself if I hadn't been waiting for a friend at a restaurant today and picked up yesterday's LA Times just to kill time and stumbled across this TINY TINY story tucked away on page nada.

Ridiculous.

[kokomo]

2. Using the FEAR FACTOR to convert soccer moms to "security "moms!