up until a few months ago the insurgency in iraq was called, well, the insurgency.
now the white house and their lap-dog media weasels(aka-the new york times, etc)refer to the iraqii insurgency as ‘al qaeda’.
this in spite of the fact the white house itself recently said that only 5% of the insurgency is al qaeda.
i can understand the administration being desperate on this issue(with bush’s approval rating at 28%, and less than 20% of americans thinking that the invasion of iraq was a good thing), but it’s kind of disgusting that the media are just going along with this blatant obfuscation.
but then again the ny times(with the queen of lazy/irresponsible journalism judity miller)basically just parroted the white house’s press releases on wmd’s in the run up to the war.
so i guess the real fool in this is me, for expecting an independent press who dont just do the bidding of the inept buffoon’s in the white house.
just keep this in mind the next time the media talk about al qaeda in iraq.
as i said, by the white house’s own admission al qaeda make up less than 5% of the insurgency in iraq.
the insurgency in iraq is made up of iraqii’s who hate us. it’s bloody and diabolical, but, for what it’s worth, it’s home-grown.
the administration would love to present the war in iraq as ‘the front line on terror’, but it’s not.
the war in iraq is just that, a war in iraq, being fought primarily between normal iraqii’s and u.s forces.
and the administration and the media do us all a great disservice by misrepresenting what’s going on in iraq as being part of some larger plot.
it’s a local iraqii tragedy, not some big international al-qaeda driven conspiracy, and the sooner we get our troops out of there the better.
-moby
