Analysis: Candidates won't risk votes as troops risk lives
For months, it was all the rage on the campaign trail. Democratic contenders never missed a chance to pound on the Bush administration, rip the Republicans and remind voters over and over how badly things were going in Iraq.The war is now going along so well that its not even something that candidates are concerned with. Its passe. We are past all of that. The writer continues with:
Republicans, as often as not, staunchly insisted that distant battles and homeland security went hand-in-hand. Day after day, stop after stop, the war was the focus of all things presidential.
Now, the war is little more than a distant echo in most stump speeches. The Democrats are generally saying little more than "We should get out as soon as we can." The Republicans are hardly mentioning it.
But why aren't the Democrats talking it up so much anymore?Here is what Ritter wrote about the war and the surge earlier this month. The main stream media which is directed by corporations that appear to have Disney's sense of a happy ending etched into their DNA, is so far off the truth its painful.
Simple: The war is going much, much better than it was a year ago -- even a few months ago. You might even say we are winning.
The surge addresses events in Iraq based upon short-term objectives (i.e., reducing the immediate level of violence) without resolving any of the deep-seated, long-term issues that promote the violence to begin with. It is like placing a Band-Aid on a gaping chest wound. The pink, frothy blood may not be visible on the surface, but the wound remains as grave as ever, and because it is not being directly attended to, it only gets worse. Eventually the lungs will collapse and the body will die. This is the reality of Iraq today. Thanks to the surge, we do not see the horrific wound that is Iraq for what it truly is. As such, our policies do nothing to cure the problem, and in doing nothing, only make the matter worse.
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The truth about this odious little War and the brutal occupation and Civil war that followed never seems to bother the MSM. They continue to basically bark the party line about it no matter how sordid the reality is. They bend and twist reality in whatever direction is necessary to achieve their ends. Whatever it takes to hold on to their booty the oil and the various War contracts given out to the Emperor BV$H's cronies.
Pretty screwy isn't it.
I keep wanting to believe this comes from a very naive and ill informed group of inoculated dreamers, but the truth seems to be - follow the money.
Its all about the money. These are a bunch of people who care nothing about what they are doing to others. They only care about how rich its making them. I know a few of them. They fit in under the old saying "the banality of evil."
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