You are in error. I know of no administration statement about the war being quick. If you are aware of anyone in the administration saying anything even remotely related to the 'quickness' of this engagement, please post a link, because I have not seen it. I don't believe they exist.
The media has promoted this military engagement as a "swift" one, and you are a dupe. There is a direct relationship between the media coverage of the war and the "popular agreement" to the war. Other people see it. You don't, because you're ignorant.
Looking at the FACTS of the media coverage, I note that there has been almost constant coverage since this thing started by ALL the networks. Even the 'nightly news' is totally saturated with war coverage. The websites of the major networks are plastered with stories relating to the war. It's all designed to make people sick of the war. It's the exact thing Saddam is hoping for, the exact thing that he thinks will keep him in power.
Take a look at ABC News' web site. There is a big story about the guy that tossed three grenades at his buddies in the middle of the night. ABC News wants you to believe that this fool is somehow not responsible for killing American soldiers because he was persecuted. That's a nice, sweet liberal concept. The truth is that the guy is insane.
Before he murdered the guys in the next tent over, he was around long enough to become a sergeant. He volunteered for the Army, and he went to Kuwait along with everyone else. He sat around for a few days and then decided he needed to kill some fellow Americans. He is insane. Only an insane person would do what he did. Not only that, he was insane a long time ago. He's been insane for a long time. What happened was that somebody in the Army happened to notice that he was insane, and he got passed up for promotion. He calls it persecution. I call it sanity. You don't want an insane person moving up the chain of command, right? Why, he might even become a Senator or something, God forbid.
ABC's story suggests very strongly that this insane person who killed two men on his own side was "pushed" into killing them because he has been the victim of religious persecution. They even quote his father, who is sure of it. He was fine until someone pushed him over the edge.
The truth is that the guy is and was insane, he's been insane for a long time, and he was persecuted because he is insane. It happens in the military; you get harrassed if you are not able to take the crap that everyone else takes. Anyone that has been in the military knows this. If that guy had been a submariner, he would have been off the boat after the first cruise, I guarantee it.
Why plaster this story all over the news? What possible reason would there be to saturate the airwaves with this story about one single insane person who murdered two fellow soldiers? Of all the stories that the media could report, why make a big deal out of that story?
I humbly ask you this: what do you think happened to all the other news? If ABC removed their coverage of this war, they would have to fill that space with other stories, right? There are no other stories, there is only constant reporting about the war. The media has made the deliberate decision to avoid reporting everything else, and concentrate on constant war coverage. The more the better. The sicker you get of it, the better they like it. You think it's an accident? You dream.
If the major networks were slanted towards liberal views, then they would have a great desire to sway the American public away from support of the administrations intention, which is to remove Saddam from power and eliminate any and all weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The easiest way to do that would be to ignore the stated administration purpose totally, and just saturate the viewing public with war news, because eventually EVERYONE gets sick of seeing the same bad news about Americans dying, all day, every day. Then, along with that, you could just invent things that are going wrong and attribute them to the administration even though they are fabricated.
The reality is this: President Bush outlined the precise goal of this conflict, before the entire nation, in his speech just prior to the first bombing run. He said then, and he has continued to say, that this fight may be drawn out. The reality is that this war, like all wars, is not fought on a "time line". That's not the way wars are fought. They are fought on an "event line", in other words, we take Objective A, then once that is done we take Objective B, and so on.
If you think he would undertake this operation without solid proof of a very real threat to this country, you are in a fantasy world. If you think President Bush is tricking you, all you have to do is wait until we find the anthrax and the Serin and all the rest of it, and your fears will be put to rest.
Incidentally, nobody in their right mind would tell the press or anyone else what the exact plan is, which is why I laugh my ass off at every CentCom briefing where some fool asks the general, "Where are the tanks going to be tomorrow?" or "How close are you to Baghdad now?" It's obvious that the media is asking these moronic questions because they have absolutely no idea what is really going on, and no idea how utterly stupid their questions sound to the military leadership. I'm sure the generals are holding their breath to keep from laughing out loud.
Invent whatever bullshit you want about what is going on. It makes no difference. George Bush is doing the right thing, and he will prove it to you with a little help from the United States Marine Corps, the United States Army, the United States Navy, and the United States Air Force. Not to mention the Brits and Aussies. |
