The trouble with liars...

The Randi Rhodes Show Message Board was buzzing about a story posted by one of our trolls about Weapons of Mass Destruction. It seems the Reverend Moon's "house organ", The Washington Times had reported the discovery of nuclear missles in Iraq. The original story read:

Baghdad, Iraq, Jul. 21 (UPI) -- Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.

The trouble with the story was that no one else reported it, and a short while later, it had been replaced with a story that had a little different take on the subject:

Baghdad, Iraq, Jul. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. military official Wednesday denied a report of Iraqi missiles carrying nuclear warheads being found in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad.
The daily al-Sabah newspaper Wednesday had quoted sources as saying three missiles armed with nuclear warheads were discovered in a trench near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
A U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit told United Press International that the report was untrue.
"Nothing's been found. The report is not factual," said Master Sgt. Robert Cowens, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division, based in Tikrit.

But who wants to bet that we won't keep seeing references to the first version of the story quoted on right wing websites in defense of Bush and the lies that he used to justify the invasion of Iraq? There was no real retraction, just a replacement. I expect to see increasing numbers of these sensational faked stories as we near the election...