[JohnGalt]

The author is correct to admonish the shrill media for finally noticing because the 'bomb was big' and they hit the 'UN' instead of some college kid in Army fatigues, but he misses the point of motivation.

The Coalition of the Willing is finished; the Poles and Spaniards are moving back, and while it's nice Honduras is sending 350 fascists thugs to the cause, I suspect they will do more harm than good. Rummy had wanted a larger coalition to send a message that it was not just the United States in Iraq, and the terrorist basically revealed that out Allies have no stomach for this. (The Spaniards are pulling back on the basis of one casualty for goodness sake!)

It's a mess all right but it becomes equally shrill to simply blame bias reporting in the face of more serious issues.

[Eala]

The media's ideologically induced blindness to Saddam's terrorist activities is beginning to clear,

It's only temporary. The media will revert to form soon and do what they do best: lie, distort and omit.

[Adrastus]

Ann Coulter was/is right. The left detests this country of ours and all it stands for. It's obvious that the "experts" at the New York Times are most qualified to critique the US policy in Iraq. They, of course being the paragon of truth, justice and the American way.

It becomes more and more clear that we have enemies both outside and inside the country.

[optimistically_conservative]

Yep, according to the media, anyone that kills Americans or Isrealis are "militants," "extremists," etc. while anyone that kills Hamas members, etc., or liberal/socialist/communist countries are terrorists.

I don't intend to be flippant here but it seems to me that the mighty United Nations is unable to provide for the safety of its own personnel.

If it turns out that not only did the United Nations refuse US protection, hire "insiders" from Saddams intelligence operatives or terror groups, and purposely present a "soft" appearance for public relations - well, using the editorial logic/reasoning spewed about the Bush administration - I'd have to conclude that the UN personnel practically blew themselves up. Basically, suicide by enemy. If fact in an ironic twist, I'd call these bombers "UN suicide" bombers, as opposed to the Palestinian "murder bombers" in Isreal.

[ravingnutter]

Moreover we were told they considered Saddam an enemy on par with the United States, because he was a secular tyrant, oppressing Muslims.

Ummm...did they not hear the latest Saddam tape (after his sons were killed)? Do the words "martyr", "jihad" and "Allah" even ring a bell?

[dennisw]

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[dennisw]

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