Lost.

Ever experienced something that appauled you so much that it sapped your very strength? That you just didn't know what to say because it flies in the face of reason so much that it should never have happened? Well it's time to experience that again.

I'm sure most of you have heard of the article published by Newsweek that claimed that interrogaters in Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Qu'ran. And if not, the gist of it is that they put a few copies on toilets in sepparate incidents and in one incident they flushed it. Of course the Islamic world was greatly outraged. I'm not entirely sure their response was justified, but still the outrage is.

So guess what happened today, shortly after many clerics in Afghanistan warned of Jihad if Bush didn't properly appologise? Newsweek stood up and said "Whoops, my bad, it was an honest mistake."

Great. Honest mistake. Much like what went on in Abu Ghirab? Something so horrible that it caused fuel to the fire, and can be linked to at least 17 deaths in the last few days. Whoops, my bad?! New insurgents ransacked humanitarian envoys over this. 17 people are dead and more injured and threatened because of this, simultaneously causing the largest incident in Afghanistan in at least a year. Honest mistake? What the hell? How can you even consider publishing something like that unless you have the photographs of it? Unless you have one of the people that was there? Did they get their info through the internet? Or just through e-mail?

How can that not just sicken someone? It's put more of our soldiers at risk, and all this from something that people look to for getting trustworthy information. Something I daresay you shouldn't any longer. Yeah, it's ok to make mistakes, but what was all the mess over Rather for? Something much less severe than this, as I recall. It's fine to have different numbers from a death toll, or to have slightly different facts from another news agency. What isn't fine is rushing to the world with evidence of how evil the US is and it being COMPLETELY MADE UP!

I just can't help but be sickened. Those of you that are against the US and its actions, fine, good for you. Freedom of speech protects even the incorrect or misguided. That counts when I'm in that boat, too. But you can't sit there anylonger and claim that the Media is bipartisan. You can't claim that it supports the truth and merely cares about reporting facts without spin. I've given it the benefit of the doubt more than once and I can't say that I've ever been proven wrong. Our people are dying for the lies that are being printed, now. You wish Bush had never sent our soldiers into Iraq, fine. Don't you think supporting the lies that kill our soldiers is the wrong way to approach something like that?

Disgusting. It's always a wonder on how someone thinks that brute force will change the mind. That's it, wail on us with your "truths" that we are wrong, that they are right, that we are evil, and they are freedom fighters. Go for it, I've heard it all. But I stand here and see articles printed without any proof what-so-ever killing our soldiers just as effectively as any bomb, bullet, or machete.

This is freedom of the presses at it's worst. I'm all for freedom of speech, but there are reparrations to be had when you are libelous or slanderous, so what happens when you falsely support and print news that gets your countrymen murdered? What happens when those lies that you made an "honest mistake" of printing result in the looting of good, honest, humanitarian aide that seeks to rebuild the countries that were left in ruins? Who pays that price?

BTW, all of the quotes there are pulled from video I watched of a Newsweek spokesman using those exact words. You can find it on www.msn.com under their videos section, about the bottom of the screen "Video Highlights". Do some digging and decide for yourself. I think I'll go be sick somewhere else, now.