NationStates Jolt Archive


US rebuilding Iraq based on info in a tourist guide!

Manfigurut
28-10-2007, 20:36
Tragic but true:

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/10/28/we-tried-to-rebuild-iraq-based-on-info-in-the-1994-lonely-planet-guide-book-ex-u-s-ambassador-barbara-bodine-98487-20020455/
Marrakech II
28-10-2007, 20:47
Tragic but true:

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/10/28/we-tried-to-rebuild-iraq-based-on-info-in-the-1994-lonely-planet-guide-book-ex-u-s-ambassador-barbara-bodine-98487-20020455/

So they used a lonely planet book to get around Baghdad? What's the big deal. As for what they should have been doing it was already tasked to them.

Would it be no different then someone finding out information on the net about a specific place?
Yootopia
28-10-2007, 20:53
*sighs*

See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7064475.stm

What a digrace, but there's not much to be done about it, so there we go.
Marrakech II
28-10-2007, 20:56
*sighs*

See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7064475.stm

What a digrace, but there's not much to be done about it, so there we go.


Well this would have been a better article to lead off with this discussion.
Yootopia
28-10-2007, 21:23
Well this would have been a better article to lead off with this discussion.
Yes, it would have. But there you go. I'd rather not start a whole new topic on the same situation with a slightly different lead article. Go for it if you'd like, though.
Hamglenious
28-10-2007, 22:49
Automatically disregard any news found in the mirror. Also, lonely planet guides are really good anyway
Yootopia
28-10-2007, 23:31
Automatically disregard any news found in the mirror.
Bit harsh, but it was certainly a biased source.
Also, lonely planet guides are really good anyway
They are when current. Not sure about 13 years' ago's edition.
The Brevious
28-10-2007, 23:37
Hey, it worked *great* for the Pirates of The Caribbean!

Now we need Keira Knightly lookalikes for the tour. Mmmmm.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2007/08/LOL%20KEIRA.JPG