Friday Seattle P-I editorial: "THIS WAR CAN'T BE WON"

[Newsjock]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/229771_basraed.asp?dpfrom=thead

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

... The Bush administration is revving up its media manipulation machinery with a new push on "winning" in Iraq. In the latest sales pitch for why we are there, President Bush says, in effect, that Americans are fortunate to have drawn terrorists into a fight on somebody else's soil.

His neocon policy advisers have been wrong about almost everything else in Iraq. They foisted this war on the United States and the world with patently false assertions not just about weapons of mass destruction. The increasingly famous Downing Street memo only hints at the scope of mass deception. The neocons also spread absolute fantasies about how we would be greeted in Iraq, how many troops would be needed to establish security and how much time, money and blood would be spent in an occupation.

Whatever elements of truth may exist in the latest PR pitch about foreign fighters in Iraq, U.S. convenience alone can't justify our presence there.

... If the United States has good intentions toward Iraq, we must ask ourselves -- and Iraqis -- what the overall effect of occupation is on the Iraqi people.

[Mythsaje]

1. The Corporate Media

is starting to 'grow a pair.'

About goddam time.

[othermeans]

2. Wow! 59 % say get out in Post poll n/t

[indepat]

3. The Iraqi mass deception is just the tip of the mass-deception iceberg:

the mass deception extends to every handiwork initiated by this cabal, be it the energy policy, fiscal and tax policies, the environment, social security, prescription drugs, international treaties et al. Since every initiative is a fraud, mass deception is the only available tool to market it to the public.

[reprehensor]

4. Does that extend to 911?

Everything else is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

I'm not sandbagging you, just curious.