Newsweek has a problem ...

... and the Pentagon seems to think the magazine's editors are trying
to four-flush their way out of a story that Newsweek now says was
partly inaccurate -- the one that alleged U.S interrogators flushed a
copy of the Quran down a toilet in order to rattle Muslim prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay.
Never mind linguists: the Army really need plumbers.
At least Newsweek explained that Koran is really spelled "Quran. I
guess that means the unhappy inmates at Gitmo are "Qurantined."
No one is happy with Newsweek's half-hearted back-pedaling. Many in the
Islamic world say it only comes from White House pressure to defuse the
tension. The Pentagon used strange language about the alleged
toilet-flushing episode. Spokesman Larry DiRita complained that
Newsweek did not actually issue a retraction. The magazine "tried
instead to water it down."
Isn't that how the trouble got started in the first place?