Posted on 06/12/2006 4:52:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 12, 2006
Talk about you're damned-if-you do moment . . .
What have the Dems and their MSM echo-chamber been clamoring for, nay, demanding, when it comes to Iraq? Why, a troop withdrawal, of course. Yet there was Matt Lauer on this morning's Today, fretting that President Bush might . . . withdraw troops.
Lauer's lament came in the course of his interview of former General Barry McAffrey, looking ahead to the Iraq summit that Pres. Bush is holding at Camp David beginning today with his top national security advisers.
Said Lauer:
" Do you worry about a political side of in that the administration may pull troops out of Iraq just prior to November's mid-term elections simply to sway public opinion?"
Let's get this straight. When Dems from John Murtha to Nancy Pelosi to John Kerrey demand a withdrawal, why, that's just statemanship. No politics there! But if, God forbid, President Bush should actually withdraw troops, wny, that would be an electoral stunt "simply to sway public opinion."
For the record, McAffrey didn't think it would happen.
In an earlier segment,NBC Pentagon reporter Jim Miklaszewski let an 'inconvenient truth' [for the MSM] slip. Guess how many inmates at Guatanamo Bay have died violent deaths prior to the recent suicide of three of them? Considering all the MSM hand-wringing, you'd think the number would be large. Turns out, it is . . . zero. As Mik mentioned, the suicides were:
"the first violent deaths of any detainees at Guantanamo Bay."
Who'd have thunk it?
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
We've already withdrawn some of our troops.
When is NBC going to withdraw Lauer, and end the war on the United States?
Miklaszewski lied, people died. (The right people died.)
The other claim by Mik was that the outcry over Gitmo has been 'bipartisan'. And who does he show to prove it: Jane Harmon (D-CA) and Arlen Specter (Whatever-PA). Plus, it's an outright myth that these terrorists haven't been given trials. Every single one of them has received a hearing before the Combat Status Review Panel, which is fully consistent with Art. V of the Geneva Conventions (which they don't come under, but that's another story) and the US Supreme Court's requirements under Hamdi. Sheesh, this isn't Law and Order on NBC.
Let's go a step further : Matt "the coke-head" Lauer.
Personally, I don't see their suicides as "violent deaths" at all. A violent death is that which is inflicted upon them by another. They inflicted it upon themselves, quietly. Just chuck their bodies to the sharks.
That's something we need to make a banner:
When is the MSM going to end the war on America?
I'm fretting like mad. (sarcasm off)
:-)
By the way .... those three guys hung themselves down at Gitmo when they got a look at Teddy Kennedy in his swimsuit getting ready to set sail.
Can you email that info to Lauer. Of course, it might shock his psyche but the truth is urgently needed by the MSM
Lauer's father should have withdrew.
I'll see if I can find his email address and send it. He can find the information right on defenselink if he dared to look.
He will continue to lie but we'll have no doubt he knows better.
You and I are not fretting, but the 'rats are forever worrying about how everything affects their political chances, the country be damned.
;-)
That particular "October Surprise" would hurt the Republicans unless the MSM had been reporting the Great Successes of the war for a couple of months. Voters would see it as a weak president caving to his enemies. Many conservatives would simply stay home in disgust and the Dems would have a boost thereby and it could well cause the control in the House to change hands and would weaken the Reps in the senate.
I cannot understand how it is that the prisoners committing suicide- and I have heard no insinuations that they were murdered(outside of DU)- can be such a CAUSE for closing a prison. But then I guess it is like Global Warming in that any conceivable climactic development will be presented as evidence for man-caused Global Warming.
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