CNN's distortions and lies?

[Frimost]

I was reading the recent news article about the search for the 3 American's being held hostage by Columbian narco-communist terrorists and came upon this little inconsistency between the BBC report and the CNN article:

Colombian politicians on Sunday expressed concern at Mr Bush's decision to send in US troops.

"This is not Afghanistan, this is not Iraq, this is not Vietnam," said Congressman Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla.

"If Americans get more deeply involved, it's going to get worse."

From the BBC

and this:

"Colombia is not Afghanistan, it is not Iraq," Petro told Radionet. "With the type of violent conflict we're living here, what the United States is going to get tangled up in is a new Vietnam."

From CNN

So which is it, what did he really say? My bet is that the liberals at CNN still have residual sympathies for their fellow leftist terrorists in the jungles of Columbia and made up half of their version of the quote or conveniently edited out the "not Vietnam" part alluded to in the BBC report.

 

[Sillyman]

*slams head into keyboard*

 

[April]

It is possible that this Petro person gave interviews to several news outlets, and BBC reported from one, and CNN from another. If you check out still other news sites, you will more than likely find variations on the theme. Not everything is a conspiracy. Often it's just an honest mistake.

 

[Lancecastor]

Maybe the translations to English were each slightly different, Frimost....but the message is really the same.