May 21 2007
Western Media As Propaganda Fools
Check out this ‘exclusive’ and see how the useful idiots in Western news rooms are used to help our enemies, the Islamo Fascists:
The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.
The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by outraged Shia if it had succeeded, has left a legacy of bitter distrust in the mind of Mr Sadr for which the US and its allies in Iraq may still be paying. “I believe that particular incident made Muqtada lose any confidence or trust in the [US-led] coalition and made him really wild,”
The guy giving this account is clearly sympathetic to al-Sadr, who is now hiding out in Iran under the protection of his Islamo-fascist puppet masters. And Sadr has ALWAYS been against America. Always. The naiveness surrounding this story is amazing. If the US wanted to kill Sadr they could have at any time simply by dropping some bombs and saying “oops – did we do that?”. This story has no legs and is not being picked up by ANYONE. That is a clear sign this was a propaganda plant. Now the only question is whether the newspaper was a dupe or an accomplice. They sure as hell weren’t ‘journalists’.
Pretty early in the morning for Kool-Aid. I suppose in spite of this weekend’s continuing revelations, including but not limited to the Sadr plot referenced above, the Surge is Working will be our mantra for this week, in spite of:
Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according to new government numbers. At least 146 contract workers were killed in Iraq in the first three months of the year, by far the highest number for any quarter since the war began in March 2003.
The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country’s military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan’s president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active.
As Iraq’s government compiles a record of failure, the Bush administration is under growing pressure to intervene to rearrange Baghdad’s dysfunctional political order, or even install a new leadership . . . although U.S. officials vow not to meddle in the government they helped to create . . . in January of this year, top U.S. officials considered, and narrowly rejected, a proposal to try to reorganize the fractious political order around a new moderate coalition.
Bombings killed seven U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the U.S. military said Sunday, and the country’s Sunni vice president spoke out against a proposed oil law, clouding the future of a key benchmark for assuring continued U.S. support for the government.
Only 25 percent of Americans say things in the U.S. are going in the right direction, according to an AP-Ipsos poll this month. That is about the lowest level of satisfaction detected since the survey started in December 2003. Rarely have longer-running polls found such a rate since the even gloomier days of 1992, ahead of the first President Bush’s re-election loss to Bill Clinton. The current glumness is widely blamed on discontent with the war in Iraq and with President Bush.
Oh, and as I recall, last week or week before the meme was Gonzales will be staying thru thick and thin. Can I still get a bet down on Speedy being gone before the 4th of July??
One thing we can count on is getting Movon.org’s daily talking points from Soothsayer. Not that we pay any attention to it. I only read the first paragraph not knowing who the poster was at that time. Normally, I just scroll through all his gibberings.
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Save AJ’s bandwidth and just post a link to moveons daily talking points would you please. Yeah if we wanted mookie round belly al-sadr dead, he would be dead, he was not the hardest guy to find. Just go to the local donut shop and follow the back track of the powder and jelly dripping from the donuts.