Big, Whopping Hunk of Pre-Petraeus SPIN on WJ this morning...

[annabanana]

A "Gen.-Ret." is on telling us exactly what Petraeus will be telling Congress this week.(i.e. how great everything is going, with a few "bumps" in the road... and that we can't leave now)

[babylonsister]

1. I'm afraid you're going to hear a lot of that this week. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. add nausea, ad nauseum.

[mwb970]

3. I imagine we will need to give them another six months. /nt

[jimshoes]

5. I expect we'll be hearing "the next 5 years" as

the new unit of measurement of progress. By now everyone knows they can't do shit in six months, they never really could, but it bought them a few years in grand US Treasury money grab.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Corporate media poised to pimp the republicon propaganda

as usual...

[anniebelle]

6. Did you just hear that Benchmark question?

He was asked about the "Benchmarks" and how many had been met. He says, quite coolly, 12 of the 18 have been met. I don't think that's anywhere even close -- last I heard it was 3.

[malaise]

7. Surprised?

NOT!

[KharmaTrain]

8. The Parallel Universe Still Lives

I had to turn this Keane dude off...incredible the bullshit he was spewing.

Accroding to him, Malaki was "asserting authority" by going into Basra and painted it as some great victory.

Then he says the reason we're there is to support the "legitimate" government of Iraq. As always, when it's your puppet, he's a "terrorist"...if he's our "puppet", he's a legitimate government.

Yes, we'll be hearing lots of this bullshit...how things are so much better now and we're making "progress"...just keep pouring in the money and go back to sleep. And thanks to C-SPIN, we get the unadulterated bullshit by the shovel.