Posted on 06/12/2006 8:21:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Ahh - so I'm not the only one who caught it.
See my post #20 - It's very deliberate, with malice afore-sight, - the spin-machine in top gear>
The most disheartening part is that even those of us who should know better - read it and go along with it, like lemmings
but it was in reference to Iraq NOT Iran as the misleading headline infers
Cheney looks just fine to me :)
You're kidding, right?
The headline says Iraq, but heck the two nations start with the same letter, and both have four letters, with the vowel in the same place. Maybe I missed something.
Yep. He could be a lame duck with a 60% approval rating and the news would report: Two years ago on this day, President Bush's numbers were 30%.
As well as picking the least flattering of numerous pictures - another favored MSM tactic.
Exactly! Probably \dozens and dozens of pics and they surely chose the dourest representation. The looks are perhaps a response to something like, "What are your thoughts as Ben Roethlisberger undergoes surgery for his motorcycle accident? Wasn't he just recently at the White House?"
Snap. Click. Whir. Best picture posted next to unrelated story on Iraq.
It is astonishing that even I have to remind myself not to believe anything I see or read from AP, Reuters, CNN, ... Imagine what the average Joe concludes when they read and see this nonsense.
The thing is, these MSM knuckleheads win every battle but end up losing the war, because at the end of the day, the economy is humming, every Iraq milestone has been met -- with Zarqawi now dead and a full government in place, no terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11, the vast # of alleged Republican scandals either turn out to be nothing (R. Limbaugh, Delay, Frist, Rove, Libby, connections to Abramoff, ...) or they are quickly dispensed (FEMA's director), mis-steps are corrected (Harriet Meiers) and on and on and on. Over the long run, the facts speak for themselves. The Democrats' battle victories translate into zero electoral success.
I know Bush has spent too much; I know he has made mistakes; I know that he needs to come around on immigration; and ... and ... and ...
I still love him and thank God every day that he is our president. I really wonder if any other man would have been up to the extraordinary challenge.
"Iraq is hurting Bush in the polls, although not the only reason. "
I suggest he doesn't run in 08. Although he can. NOt being elected in 2000 as the libs like to say, is a great opportunity for Bush to run in 08.
Are you anticipating an alternative approach?
It's not that theoretically they can't...it's that they won't...Think of the Shia and the Sunni in the same line of the Irish Prots and the Irish Catholics...they live by each other but if the end if they had the opportunity to really stick it to other they ALWAYS would.
Iraq, just like the rest of the middle east, will NEVER have a democracy like ours where the common good is more important than the sect of Islam you belong to...it's not changed for over 1000 years and it never will...That's the nature of the beast in the middle east whether we like it or not.
In the end we might have a semi ally in Iraq in 5 years, but to expect the deep rooted differences among the Muslims themselves to just fade away because they have "democracy" is unrealistic.
I predict that whenever we leave whether it's in a year or 10 that Iraq will fall into a theocracy like Iran after Iran sends over subvertive Shiite leaders to stir a revolution...Then let's see how well they share ;-)
I have to disagree. They are now a unity government, the oil wealth will be spread evenly.
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