Once again, the press has bought the line that all's well in Iraq now that "full sovereignty" is being restored to the Iraqis. Right.
In the meantime, the Kurds are threatening to pull out of the Coalition, GIs keep being killed, the new "government" is stacked with CIA favorites, another top Shiite leader was assasinated, and raw sewage runs in the streets.
Not to mention the memoranda that keep pouring out of DOD and the other parts of the Administration supporting our by-passing the Geneva Convention. But of course that doesn't have anything to do with the torture chambers in Baghadad. Those guilty, after all, were enlisted men. And we all know how they can't walk a straight line.
See the Dreyfuss Report from Tom Paine to get more on just how easy it is to distract the mainstream media from a critical and suspicious stance toward the worst foreign policy and military blunder of the post-WWII era.
Reporting the plain truth on the front pages of the nation's leading newspapers day by day would probably finish off Bush in the next three months. That would ruin the prospects for a wonderfully close, down-to-the-wire horse race-election this November (with all that ad revenue pouring in).
How fair would that be to the viewing public?
