Sure It Is
Many in the administration and some in lapdog media land have been saying things are improving in Iraq. Of course this is not true.
Democrat Joe Lieberman, in a tough political primary August 8 in Connecticut, is known for his belief in Bush's "stay the course" thinking in Iraq. Here's big Joe at his debate with Ned Lamont last night:
"So I am confident that the situation is improving enough on the ground that by the end of this year, we will begin to draw down significant numbers of American troops, and by the end of the next year more than half of the troops who are there now will be home."
Where do people like pompous Joe Lieberman get their information? Not from these guys:
The journal Foreign Policy, two days ago:
You can only manage the news to a certain degree. It is certainly hard to hide the fact that in the third year of this war, Iraqis are only getting electricity for about 5 to 10 percent of the day. Living conditions have gotten so much worse, violence is at an even higher tempo, and the country is on the verge of civil war.
Can you see why people talk about reality based news and faith based news? Everything, according to neo-cons, is good. The entire Iraqi government except one department carries out their work behind the safe walls of our Green Zone fortress but "things are improving". Violent killings have gone up since Zarqawi's death. Now our own hand picked leader for Iraq, al-Maliki, is calling our soldiers "reckless" and is requesting a timeline for withdrawal. No, things are not getting better in Iraq. Our leaders don't really care about any of that. The whole idea of going to Iraq in the first place was to set up a permanent military presence in order to "project" our power over the middle east. We are going to "project" our power with permanent military bases, one of which is 19 square miles. For the space impaired, 19 square miles is approximately the size of an Ohio township. Reality based thinking is this: congressional Republicans recently defeated a Democratic amendment that would cut funding for permanent bases. Why would they do that? Could it be that Republicans know we're never leaving Iraq?
Why would we want to "project" our power over the middle east anyhow? What does the middle east have that would be of such interest to us that we would kill all those people and spend all that money? What could it be? Hmmm.
The faith based news group would have us believe that our current leaders would do all this to bring freedom and democracy to Iraqi people. What a good bunch of leaders they would be if this were true but alas, no. The reality based news tells a completely diffferet story. Reality based information tells us that under the middle east deserts there are huge reserves of what? Just say it, that's it, you're right it's the OIL. See how reality is so liberating.
In the future be more mindful of how faith and reality based information are being offered up, sometimes side by side. In this new world where information is power, it can't all be true.
Thus ends the lesson.
Democrat Joe Lieberman, in a tough political primary August 8 in Connecticut, is known for his belief in Bush's "stay the course" thinking in Iraq. Here's big Joe at his debate with Ned Lamont last night:
"So I am confident that the situation is improving enough on the ground that by the end of this year, we will begin to draw down significant numbers of American troops, and by the end of the next year more than half of the troops who are there now will be home."
Where do people like pompous Joe Lieberman get their information? Not from these guys:
The journal Foreign Policy, two days ago:
You can only manage the news to a certain degree. It is certainly hard to hide the fact that in the third year of this war, Iraqis are only getting electricity for about 5 to 10 percent of the day. Living conditions have gotten so much worse, violence is at an even higher tempo, and the country is on the verge of civil war.
Can you see why people talk about reality based news and faith based news? Everything, according to neo-cons, is good. The entire Iraqi government except one department carries out their work behind the safe walls of our Green Zone fortress but "things are improving". Violent killings have gone up since Zarqawi's death. Now our own hand picked leader for Iraq, al-Maliki, is calling our soldiers "reckless" and is requesting a timeline for withdrawal. No, things are not getting better in Iraq. Our leaders don't really care about any of that. The whole idea of going to Iraq in the first place was to set up a permanent military presence in order to "project" our power over the middle east. We are going to "project" our power with permanent military bases, one of which is 19 square miles. For the space impaired, 19 square miles is approximately the size of an Ohio township. Reality based thinking is this: congressional Republicans recently defeated a Democratic amendment that would cut funding for permanent bases. Why would they do that? Could it be that Republicans know we're never leaving Iraq?
Why would we want to "project" our power over the middle east anyhow? What does the middle east have that would be of such interest to us that we would kill all those people and spend all that money? What could it be? Hmmm.
The faith based news group would have us believe that our current leaders would do all this to bring freedom and democracy to Iraqi people. What a good bunch of leaders they would be if this were true but alas, no. The reality based news tells a completely diffferet story. Reality based information tells us that under the middle east deserts there are huge reserves of what? Just say it, that's it, you're right it's the OIL. See how reality is so liberating.
In the future be more mindful of how faith and reality based information are being offered up, sometimes side by side. In this new world where information is power, it can't all be true.
Thus ends the lesson.
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