Monday, September 02, 2013

TRANSLATION ERRORS?

This is hard to believe.  A UN inspector says the Bush administration made the decision to go to war in Iraq on a mistranslation. . .using Google Translate from Arabic to English!

According to Kay, who headed up the Iraq Survey Group and acted as a weapons inspector in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, mistranslations of Arabic to English is what went wrong in 2003 when then Secretary of State Colin Powell on behalf of the Bush administration made the case to go into Iraq at the United Nations.

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