HuffPost: Iraq PM "lovefest" with Iran, "new chapter in brotherly ties”

[DemsUnited]

From Huffington Post
Arianna Huffington
Iraq: The War We Are Not Being Shown

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It’s like a pair of blinders has been removed and I’m suddenly seeing for myself what I’ve long known to be the case: just how sanitized a version of the war the American mainstream media are delivering, and how little of even this cleaned-up coverage we get.

Take Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari’s lovefest visit to Tehran on Sunday, where he laid a wreath on the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini and hailed what he called “a new chapter in brotherly ties” between Iran and Iraq. Now, by all rights, this should have been a major story in the U.S. Here you have the leader of the new government we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars creating in Iraq making very nice with the terror-funding and nuke-building mullahs in Iran. So this is what our soldiers are putting their lives on the line for -- 1,770 killed so far -- a budding alliance between fundamentalist theocracies? (And yesterday’s news about the Iraqi constitution being based on fundamentalist Islamic principles, including curtailing women’s rights only confirms these fears) Surely that’s front page news, right? Not in America.

In fact, the historic visit was barely covered in the mainstream American press. The only major U.S. newspaper to report it was the Washington Post -- and its story was on page A-21. A-21?! The consequences of this lack of coverage are enormous. As the blogger Billmon at Whiskey Bar nailed it:

“How would the folks back home feel if they knew their sons and daughters were getting limbs blown off so that Iraqi politicians could jaunt off to Tehran and say warm and fuzzy things about the crazy old man who gave us the Iranian hostage crisis? And what kind of surrealist cover story would the GOP propaganda machine come up with to convince the Fox News audience that fighting and dying to keep Khomeini lovers in power is really a good thing?”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/arianna-huffington/iraq-the-war-we-are-not-_4462.html

[tuvor]

1. Kick.

Whattaya wanna bet that if you dropped this bit of news in the middle of a circle of freepers, their brains would simply explode?

[cornermouse]

2. Saddam's not there to stop them any more.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "I'm a uniter, not a divider." -- George AWOL Bush

Uniting Iraq and Iran so the Jihad will have its shit together when confronting the Unholy Crusade on the plains of meggido, or whatever.

To me this seems an altogether poorly thought out strategy for security, or prosperity, for that matter.

[DemsUnited]

5. The Iraq War: giving terrorists a recruiting ground & a mini-me for Iran

Yup, "freedom is on the march" all right.

[realFedUp]

4. In Shiite shape

well, ya couldn't see that coming....

yeah, right.

[Disturbed]

6. The US troops and mercs are doing Iran's work.

The Sunni Ba'athists are the target of the Bush Regime which is helping Iran. Now we know what Ahmed Chalabi was doing in Iran. G. Tenet tried to warn the PNACers about Ahmed but instead of heading his warning they fired him and gave him a medal. Convolution is making me dizzy.