MSM Leaps to Support the War
Mainstream media is full of stories this morning trumpeting the “grim milestone:” U.S. Troop Deaths In Iraq Exceed 9/11 Toll, 6 More GI Deaths Put Military Past Grim Milestone As 36 Iraqis Die In Other Attacks.
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks claimed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Opponents of President Bush have criticized him for raising the attacks as a justification for the protracted fight in Iraq.
Wow, that is downright patriotic, and coming from the MSM! I mean, what a great way to defend the president, to point out as a reason to go to war that the enemy has made a single work day in New York as dangerous as three and a half years in an intractable and unwinnable war zone.
December 26th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
More folks wuz killed at Manassas than Ft. Sumpter.
December 27th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Yeah well, used to be that people fought for things they believed in. But we’re not allowed to do that anymore, not for my war.
December 27th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Yeah, war’s just another consumer item now.
December 27th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Damn, sorry about that. I just felt grim for a sec. Off to the store under blue, blue skies under days that are getting ever longer.
December 27th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
You think you’re grim? Me, I’m grim. Even this g–d—ed mandarin orange won’t cheer me up.
December 27th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Consider my sig a “manual trackback”!
December 28th, 2006 at 5:56 am
When I hear anyone (Ted Kennedy) complain about the length of this war compared to WWII, I long for a reporter to ask him if he’s recommending we bring this war to conclusion the way we did WWII.
December 28th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Yeah every time I hear anyone (him and everyone else) complain about how insensitive we are to a culture unlike our own by going in there and actually killing anyone, I long for anyone to ask him if he wants us to nuke them twice like we did the culture unlike our own at the end of WWII.
The whole thing’s absurd and pisses me off.
And I take trackbacks, so if you leave comments that don’t relate to the content of the entry or the general character of the discussion, but whose purpose seems only to be leaving a link to your site, I start to wonder if perhaps that comment isn’t junk.