War? Damn the war...don’t you know that Spitzer got laid?!
The media has been so caught up in the Obama/Clinton horse race, and the politician/hooker scandal (like *that's* never happened before) and haven't been paying attention to the war....well, last fall they had a couple stories of how "the surge" had reduced violence and people were out buying ice cream again....
Things have changed, the war is heating up.
But hardly any mention of how a suicide bomber killed five US soldiers as they chatted with shop owners while on a foot patrol in Baghdad on March 10th. Not to mention the rise in car bomb violence, Iraqis and Afghanis dying every day. Google a bit and you'll find that growing violence in Iraq is eating up security gains.
Hardly any mention of how Admiral William Fallon, the top US commander in the Middle East, resigned his command on March 11th. He recently publicly criticized the Bush Administration’s Iran policy and was seen as the lone wolf standing in the way of Bush going to war with Iran.
Yet, to watch the news, the war seems to have disappeared.
But war still rages, we still occupy two countries, people still die, and $12 billion still drains out of our pockets every month to fund the whole thing.
It's sad and disturbing that hardly anybody is talking about it...at all. Check this out:
"Public Is Less Aware of Iraq Casualties, Study Finds"
From the washingtonpost.com, March 13, 2008:
"Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey released yesterday.
"Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey released yesterday.
The survey, by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, found that public awareness of developments in the Iraq war has dropped precipitously since last summer, as the news media have paid less attention to the conflict. In earlier surveys, about half of those asked about the death tally responded correctly.
Related Pew surveys have found that the number of news stories devoted to the war has sharply declined this year, along with professed public interest.
"Coverage of the war has been virtually absent," said Pew survey research director Scott Keeter, totaling about 1 percent of the news hole between Feb. 17 and 23.[..]"
Up until now, the media has done such a fine job covering Iraq have they not? NOT. The waste and corruption is staggering....barely mentioned.
I also found this little news tidbit -- the Pentagon authorized an all-out exhausting study of Iraq's Saddam-era documents...and get this, the report was finding NO relationship between his government and Al Qaeda.
Well, seems that didn't fit in with the Bush Administration's agenda, and they decided to just not allow the study to be released on-line (it was supposed to be released Mar. 12th).
So now, you have to actually write and ask for it and eventually they will send you a CD-ROM, and it probably won't arrive until late January 2009.
I'm sure this was all over the news today, but I've just been too busy to catch it. Right?
