How nice of the WAPO (and probably the other media cheerleaders) to take notice.
They had a big hand in creating what's happening.
Good point!
I saw an e-mail from Baghdad a couple of years ago, from a troopie (senior noncom, I think) complaining about the Wa Po's Baghdad correspondent and his reality-free writing about how badly things were going in Iraq. He had come out to a location where this senior enlisted guy was and been shown around, and then wrote a lip-pulling piece about how tough things were -- and it just wasn't true. I saw the same Post guy (he has a South Asian name, s'pose I could look him up but I just don't care) teleconferencing in on a talking-head show last year, laying down the same garbage for Charlie Rose or Jim Lehrer or whosever show it was.
You're right. The Wa Po has been at the epicenter of the media's furious undercutting of Bush Administration Iraq/GWoT policy.
You know, there is an important story that should be researched, written and published by someone and that is:
- How the mainstream media has opposed this war virtually from the start;
- How public opinion was changed and managed throughout this struggle against Bush and the American objective;
- How the insurgents took solace and sustenance from the breaking of US public opinion against our effort;
- How the terrorists adjusted their tactics to magnify what the Dems were saying and trying to achieve; and
- If we ultimately lose this "battle" (we will never lose the war) in the War on Terror, it will be thanks to the coordinated efforts of the Democrats (or is it Democratics?), the MSM, the UN, the cowardly European nations who refused to join this effort, the leftist Hollyweird glitterati, and the terrorist all of whom have coordinated their efforts in the name of defeating George W. Bush.
If that should happen, I hope they'll be happy, because they're going to have lots and lots of blood on their hands -- and not just Iraqi blood, but the blood of US soldiers and thousands of innocents in the Middle East, in Europe (get ready Old Europe: here comes the WOT!) and in the US. And Dems: maybe you can ride this defeat to victory in 2008 but the day of reckoning will be coming quickly. Enjoy your moment in power because it may be the last for a very long time.