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2004-05-17 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2004-05-17 12:06:16 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think it has been 3 straight Sunday mornings that the prison scandal has dominated the talk shows, the ultimate indication of what the Beltway insiders and mass media are thinking.

Last month on this date, it was Fallujah and Sadr that dominated the airwaves. Now that we have turned the majority of the Iraqi Shiaa majority against Sadr and quieted Fallujah, there is nary a word on these successes.
WMD? We know Libya and Iraq are no longer threats.
The PCA has already turned over to Iraq around 6 ministries, such as Agriculture and Foreign Affairs, two very important ones.
A provisional constitution was OK'd and sovereignity will be passed over on 6-30. An Iraqi free press. Oil production, electricity exceeding Saddam levels, and schools with entirely new ciruccula. This isn't progress?

Then yesterday all the polls that show W and Kerry in a neck and neck. Well of course, the public has been treated for the last two months to the most negative headlines and commentary re Iraq on ABC, NBC,CBS, NYTimes, B Globe, etc.

And W has felt the pressure. Therefore, apologies to the likes of Abdullah of Jordan; the specter for foreign audiences of Rumsfeld being castigated by hypocrites like like Pelosi (Her company Bechtel is doing OK in Iraq, right Nancy? It's not all Haliburton and Cheney) and even Repubs like McCain and Graham looked like they couldn't wait to be on camera posing and preening. Graham especially. You could see him just having a fit saying to himself, "But I wasn't informed. Well I'm a gd Us senator!" Believe me the message was received and digested for our friends and enemies in the ME. Nobody on our side could draw any optimism over the spectacle of our spasms of self-flaggelation for a group that was mistreated but at least kept their heads.

Has anyone seen any p. 1 headlines or leads on the TV news over the 280,000 jobs created last month? Two months of Clinton growth so naturally this item is not mentioned by the mainstream since the majority of media members badly want Bush out. Even Kristol, Will, etc. are losing their fire.

Let Bush know he has to maintain course. The silent majority can no longer be silent.

Posted by Michael 2004-05-17 2:08:57 PM|| 2004-05-17 2:08:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't worry too much about Bush sticking to the plan. OTOH, Kerry wobbles but he don't fall down.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-17 9:19:10 PM|| 2004-05-17 9:19:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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