(h/t David at Crooks & Liars)
She was on FAUX News Sunday and got the facts wrong again:
The Minnesota congresswoman told Fox News' Chris Wallace that NATO airstrikes had killed up to 30,000 civilians in the country.To his credit, Chris Wallace set the record straight before the program ended:
"People should be outraged at the foolishness of the president's decision," she said. "He said he wanted to go in for humanitarian purposes and overnight we are hearing that potentially 10 to 30,000 people could have been killed in the strike. Those are some of the reports."
"The NATO strikes killed 10,000 to 30,000 people?" an incredulous Wallace asked.
"A report that came out last night from the Tripoli ambassador said that potentially there could be 10,000 to 30,000," Bachmann insisted.
"I just want to clear up, because we looked into what Michele Bachmann had been saying. She quoted the U.S. ambassador to Libya saying 30,000 people had been killed in the NATO strike so far. In fact, what Ambassador Gene Cretz said is that he estimated that 30,000 people had been killed by all sides in the entire conflict. That includes the rebels and the Gaddafi forces. So big difference," he said.
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Frankly, although Bachmann is both a hypocrite and discredits her own
anti-Libyan War case, her spiel isn't much further off than the Administration's statistical hype about Khaddafi's threatened seige of one city to justify the war.
(Which another city and more has now paid for.)
her spiel isn't much further off than the Administration's statistical hype about Khaddafi's threatened seige of one city to justify the war.
I found that claim plausible but you may be correct.
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