Allow me to explain something…
Posted by: Jack Grant in Amber and Cruelty, Commentary, Politics, Weblogs, right-wing politics, right-wing weblogs…that should be beyond elementary to those in power.
Something important to note for those in power who forget their limitations, and all do eventually - Continued news releases such as this:
Al Qaeda Big Killed in Iraq; Saddam’s Nephew Could Give Informtion
Thursday, October 20, 2005
FOX NewsBAGHDAD — A senior Al Qaeda (search) leader was killed during a series of Coalition raids in western Iraq on Oct. 15, the U.S. military says.
According to a press statement released by the Coalition Press Information Center in Baghdad, Sa’ad Ali Firas Muntar al Dulaymi (aka Abu Abdullah) was killed near the town of Ramadi during raids on suspected terror hideouts.
At least 11 other terrorists were killed in the operation, according to the military.
These kinds of news releases need to have both concrete, serious follow-up stories and show postive, unrefutable progress within months of release, otherwise after a short while they become both symbols of propoganda and objects of ridicule in a free society.
Despite the whining of those on the far-far-left-wing, we do indeed still have a free society, please, at least find the office so that you can buy a ticket to the clue train so that what you release doesn’t reek of spin if not outright propaganda in light of the continued repetition of “we got the #2″ with no apparent signs of progress that are obvious when other sources are compared to your so-called “news” releases.
How many times have we been told an “al Qaeda biqwig” or the “al Qaeda number two man” has been killed or captured?
More times than I can recall.
Yet, we continue to be told that “terrorism is our greatest threat”… NOT a North Korea that has declared they already have a nuclear weapon (or eight or so), and NOT a China that has the largest educated population on the planet which is buying up the bonds to our debt as fast as we issue them.
The math isn’t working out for those of us who are willing to take the time to do the sums.
I have done those sums, and the terrorism “threat” falls far short of that by either the thugs in North Korea or the Chinese, who have their own, nationalist, agenda that is NOT friendly to the United States.
I do not want my nation to fail because of your incompetence.
Perhaps you should stop listening to your own propaganda and start looking at the real threats.
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I agree it smacks of propaganda, and I’m old enough (barely) to remember the bogus nightly body counts from Vietnam. Truth is, though, shouldn’t the media, those intrepid journalists and factseekers, be the ones providing background? Vetting the administration’s claims that Abu Bib-binny was indeed the CFO of Al Qaeda, Mosul Branch? I see too many army information officer blurbs without any fact-checking. Hell, they could at least see if these guys were on a playing card once upona. Shouldn’t be that hard.
Right on target Jack, as usual. Well done.