Saturday, April 01, 2006
Them Damn Pictures...
Iraq is beginning to descend into something that looks a lot like civil war.
Talk about irony: the mainstream media put their hearts and souls, literally, into promoting this war, and now that it's gone south the Bush Administration and its lackeys are blaming THEM for it.
Even when the media stalls "six months" to report it, as the Times has here.
Guess you can't trust anyone these days.
Damn media. If only they'd shown pictures of Iraqis throwing flowers and chocolates at our soldiers. We're sure Donald Rumsfeld could have provided the footage. Starring "Curveball".
Anyway, much as we enjoy watching the pointing finger shift over to the Generals of the Press who did so much to march other people's kids off to war in Iraq, we can't help noticing that the core competency of the Bush administration seems to begin and end with the ability to, well, point fingers.
If you were against the war because it was a really bad idea, you were the problem. You were "encouraging the enemy".
If you were for the war, but despite your best efforts can't help reporting that it's gone the way those who were against it predicted -- you're the problem. You're "encouraging the enemy".
A word of warning to those in the military who continue to intellectually defend the incompetent, lying clowns of the Bush Administration: they'll turn on you, too:
- Civilians in Iraq Flee Mixed Areas as Attacks Shift
By EDWARD WONG and KIRK SEMPLE
Published: April 2, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 1 -- The war in Iraq has entered a bloodier phase, with the killings of Iraqi civilians rising tremendously in daily sectarian violence while American casualties have steadily declined, spurring tens of thousands of Iraqis to flee from mixed Shiite-Sunni areas.
The new pattern, detailed in casualty and migration statistics from the past six months and in interviews with American commanders and Iraqi officials, has led to further separation of Shiite and Sunni Arabs, moving the country toward a de facto partitioning along sectarian and ethnic lines -- an outcome that the Bush administration has doggedly worked to avoid over the past three years.
Talk about irony: the mainstream media put their hearts and souls, literally, into promoting this war, and now that it's gone south the Bush Administration and its lackeys are blaming THEM for it.
Even when the media stalls "six months" to report it, as the Times has here.
Guess you can't trust anyone these days.
Damn media. If only they'd shown pictures of Iraqis throwing flowers and chocolates at our soldiers. We're sure Donald Rumsfeld could have provided the footage. Starring "Curveball".
Anyway, much as we enjoy watching the pointing finger shift over to the Generals of the Press who did so much to march other people's kids off to war in Iraq, we can't help noticing that the core competency of the Bush administration seems to begin and end with the ability to, well, point fingers.
If you were against the war because it was a really bad idea, you were the problem. You were "encouraging the enemy".
If you were for the war, but despite your best efforts can't help reporting that it's gone the way those who were against it predicted -- you're the problem. You're "encouraging the enemy".
A word of warning to those in the military who continue to intellectually defend the incompetent, lying clowns of the Bush Administration: they'll turn on you, too:
- Asked whether he had adequately prepared to manage post-war Iraq, Mr. Bush said:
"I remember sitting in the White House looking at those generals, saying, 'Do you have what you need in this war? Do you have what it takes?' " Mr. Bush said. "I remember going down to the basement of the White House the day we committed our troops, as a last resort, looking at Tommy Franks and the generals on the ground, asking them, 'Do we have the right plan with the right troop level?' " Mr. Bush said. "And they looked me in the eye and said, 'Yes, sir, Mr. President.' "
