Facts, Who Needs Facts?

Below is a typical NYT back door correction of a major story that they were in such a flurry and tizzie to get to the presses last week they didn't bother at all to check the pertinent facts, a story that was very reminiscent of that fraudulent soldier Jesse MacBeth a while back that you may or may not remember, a story that the good ol' MSM bought hook line and sinker as well in their constant search for those stories to discredit and defame the entire military and Bush administration simultaneously. The ones they just can't get enough of, nor can their equally hate filled normal readership on the left, including Bin Laden and every other terrorist on the face of the earth.

The Women’s War
On the morning of Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, a 21-year-old Army specialist named Suzanne Swift went AWOL. Her unit, the 54th Military Police Company, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was two days away from leaving for Iraq. Swift and her platoon had been home less than a year, having completed one 12-month tour of duty in February 2005, and now the rumor was that they were headed to Baghdad to run a detention center. The footlockers were packed. read more or
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Here's the pretty well hidden correction

Corrections - New York Times:"Editors’ Notes

The cover article in The Times Magazine on March 18 reported on women who served in Iraq, the sexual abuse that some of them endured and the struggle for all of them to reclaim their prewar lives. One of the servicewomen, Amorita Randall, a former naval construction worker,"

Skip Ahead to this ridiculous ending, but do go back and read the entire thing for the full half as%$# apology experience ...

Based on the information that came to light after the article was printed, it is now clear that Ms. Randall did not serve in Iraq, but may have become convinced she did. Since the article appeared, Ms. Randall herself has questioned another member of her unit, who told Ms. Randall that she was not deployed to Iraq. If The Times had learned these facts before publication, it would not have included Ms. Randall in the article.more

She did not serve in Iraq but became convinced that she did? Am I in the Twilight Zone here? Is she in the Twilight Zone? Is the NYT in the Twilight Zone?

Can anyone explain that to me as I am still scratching my head trying to figure out if that puzzling paragraph is some type of diagnosis, or mea culpa, explanation of some sort..If they were aware that she did not convince herself that she was there when she wasnt in fact there they would have left her out of the story?

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