Three Undeniable Truths About U.S. Efforts in Iraq

Jaw meet floor.

five: #1 thru #4.

The successes in Iraq will continue not register here at home because of the media’s obsession on the latest mass killing by AQI. (And, yes, this includes Fox News.)

I’ve always believed that one day, we’ll all wake up to the breaking news that an unequivocal military victory has been achieved in Iraq … and every Democrat and media outlet will be stepping over each other to stand close to the President and the military so that they may be in the picture. It may happen much sooner than we expect. When that happens, let’s give them a big push off, starting with the weak Republicans.

Dave: Don’t scare me like that 🙂

It’s sad to know that there are people who actually think that way.

An excellent article in the Weekly Standard did a fine catalog of the left’s paranoia:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/024nesep.asp

Here’s a choice bit:

…At the same time that Conason is looking back to a fictional past in America, Naomi Wolf–last heard from in 2000 advising Al Gore to dress in earth tones–is looking back to a real past in Europe, and seeing troubling parallels. In 4,600 overwrought words, she explained to the readers of the Guardian that there are ten steps to “Fascist America” and Bush is taking them all. He has whipped up a menace (the war on terror); created “a prison system outside the rule of law” (Guantánamo, to which public dissidents, including “clergy and journalists” will be sent “soon enough”); developed “a thug caste .  .  . groups of scary young men out to terrorize citizens” (young Republican staffers who supposedly “menaced poll workers” during the 2000 recount in Florida); set up an “internal surveillance system” (NSA scanning for phone calls to and from terrorists). An airtight case, this, and leading to just one conclusion: “Beneath our very noses, George Bush and his administration are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society. It is time for us to be willing to think the unthinkable .  .  . that it can happen here.”

Well, this explains many things. It explains why poor Cindy Sheehan is now sitting in prison; why Bush critics like CIA retiree Valerie Plame have been ostracized by the corporate media and are wasting away in anonymity; why no critic of Bush can get a hearing, why no book complaining about him can ever get published, and why our multiplexes are filled with one pro-Bush propaganda movie after another, glorifying the Iraq war and rallying the nation behind its leader.

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, Cindy Sheehan is running for Congress; Valerie Plame is rich and famous; the young Republican “thugs” made all of one appearance seven years ago–chanting “Let us in!” when Miami-Dade County vote counters planned to move to a small inner room with no observers present; and press censorship is now so far-reaching that you can’t even expose a legal, effective, and top-secret plan to trace terrorists without getting a Pulitzer Prize. “What if the publisher of a major U.S. newspaper were charged with treason or espionage?” Wolf asks breathlessly. “What if he or she got 10 years in jail?” Well, journalists have been harassed, pressed for their sources, and threatened with prison, but not by George W. Bush and his people. Back in the real world, only one prominent journalist has been jailed by the federal government in recent memory, and that was Judith Miller, imprisoned for 80-plus days for contempt by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the great hero of the anti-Bush forces for having indicted Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff.

I’ve said as much myself in the left’s paranoid attacks on President Bushwhile at the same time embracing Hugo Chavez while he creates a REAL dictatorship in Venezuela.