Errors & Omissions: Accuracy can disappear when a headline-writer is pushed for time - Errors & Omissions, Corrections - The Independent: "A disastrous headline was published on Tuesday. Above a report of poll findings about the Libya campaign appeared these words: 'Seven out of 10 want British troops out and fear 'another Iraq'.'
The opening paragraph of the story said that respondents to the survey feared that British 'armed forces will be sucked into a long Iraq-style military operation in Libya'. That was based on the finding that 71 per cent of respondents agreed with the proposition that 'I am concerned that the military action in Libya could result in Britain being dragged into a prolonged conflict like the Iraq war'."
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