Thought I might post part of an email from my friend who always has some inciteful observations:
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I've noted that the media has started mixing in casualty figures with
any news story that even mentions Iraq. For example, the AP ran a story
that was printed in Stars and Stripes on 28 November. The title of the
story was "Eight accused of plotting to kill Saddam judge."
The entire story dealt with the trial, but ended in a marvelous
non-sequitur, "On Saturday, a U.S. Marine died when his vehicle was hit by a
roadside bomb near Camp Taqaddum, 45 miles . . ."
An IED strike near Camp Taqaddum has absolutely no relation to the
Saddam trial, but news of Americans dying is often inserted into any Iraq
story. I've seen several stories, in which a paragraph of recent war
deaths is inserted, seemingly as a non-sequitur. If this apparent desire
to constantly pound home the number of American's killed in Iraq
continues, we will see it spread to other news stories. "In Princeton, New
Jersey, an ice cream vendor made history by offering the first 'beef
gravy' flavor. And in Iraq, a marine was killed when his HMMWV . . . . "
Not that I think that the media is anti-Bush, but it appears that they
would do anything to discredit the Iraq war. I understand it on the
part of the Democrats who want to undermine the war effort for partisan
political gains, but newspapers usually at least pretend to be purveyors
of impartial reporting.
Maybe Rumsfeld's comment to Joe Lieberman (who suggested that the
American people were tilting away from the Iraq war) in testimony to the
Armed Services committee was correct.
(loose quote) "You think the American people are tilting away from the war. I think they're being pushed."
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Hawk |
