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The Surge, Iran And A Possible Journalistic Conflict Of Interest
The idea: get the administration’s message out on the “surge” in Iraq and recent reports say Dick Cheney’s position on Iran (that the military option is looking more and more preferable). Is there a journalistic conflict of interest (one quite glaring (apparently not noted by a news outlet?)?
First read THIS and then THIS.
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I love when Fred Barnes or Billy Kristol use the “Librul” media bias when conflicts of interest at Weakly Standard pop up like this. While Billy is an intellectual, I wonder when he speaks if we hear the truth or his latest spin. Inaugural address 2004 and his review on Fox News…
The facts coming through (slowly, under the radar of the MSM, hush-hush and not for public consumption) are not good news for the surge. Civilian deaths are up, the number of Iraqis fleeing their homes is up, availability of running water down, electricity likewise and the army’s ability to continue at this pace is down also (the only way for Petraeus’s plan to continue is to extend troop time to 18 months which according to the army’s vice chief of staff is just not possible).
But facts are nothing in our brave new America. The PR war, it seems to me, is already over and won by the administration. The surge will continue and will continue to produce little change for soldiers on the ground or for the Iraqi people. More lives lost, more treasure spent, a few more months closer to Bush’s goal of leaving office with America still committed to a war it cannot win.
So much sacrifice so that Bush can say he didn’t lose Iraq, and still so much support for such a twisted ideal.
You’d be hard pressed to find another family that has caused more damage to our nation than the Kagan Klan.
And I include the Bush family in this assessment.