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> a proposed resolution backed by the United States, Britain and Spain that would declare that Iraq has missed its last chance to disarm itself of weapons of ma
by lstamour 5y ago
> a proposed resolution backed by the United States, Britain and Spain that would declare that Iraq has missed its last chance to disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction
The statement would be correct in that the US put forth a proposal that Iraq had such weapons and the statement being countered was that very proposal. CNN wrote that first paragraph and what follows is the statement submitted to the UN, presumably verbatim.
If you click the CNN link, you'll see the rest of the text reads very differently, and that was my point. That an authoritative differing opinion can exist, that a context engine could line up such differing opinions, but that if you really take it a step or two farther, you'd have to dig through a few more layers of context (history) to understand why the differences in opinion exist, or what's in it for the stronger party to get their way, or perhaps what the stronger party/narrative-maker is afraid of.
But you can't stop at countering the mainstream, you should give equal room to the context surrounding alternative or less mainstream ideas, some of which will be considered slander, but should still be mentioned in a fair context engine. Context engines should be about presenting sourced evidence, and while they can be gamed (Wikipedia and, well, social media voting comes to mind), given enough sources they also should be relatively up-to-date.