War dead caused by errors, too

So the president is upset about the Newsweek story regarding desecration of the Quran at a detention center. The resulting effect of this story was the riot that cost about 15 lives. So this was a critical error by Newsweek, which should have checked its facts for accuracy.

So who is to blame for the WMD fiasco and the resulting 1,500 plus "coalition" lives and thousands of Iraqi lives. Can this be classified as a "critical error"?

Cliff McLean

Coeur d'Alene, ID

The Spokesman Review