The Furious Spinner

According to Robert Fisk in his article "Iraq's Guerrillas Adopt New Strategy: Copy the Americans" in IndyMedia UK, the series of recent bombings in Iraq showed the "Iraqis that the Americans cannot control Iraq; more important, perhaps, it told Americans that the Americans could not control Iraq." By the way, Paul Wolfowitz, the "architect of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq" was almost killed in one of the explosions. On TV he looked shellshocked (literally). Do you think he's finally realized war is hell?

Molly Ivins writes about public relations and how the White House is trying to spin everything, including the fact that U.S. soldiers are dying in Iraq every day (and let us not forget Iraqis are dying, too). How do you think the Bush Administration is doing in this PR campaign when, as Molly Ivins (and the Seattle P-I) reports, "George Nethercutt, a Republican congressman from Washington state, spent four days in Iraq and told an audience at home: 'The story of what we've done in Iraq is remarkable. It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day.'" Hmmm. Speaking of he lied, they died. Check out Gary Olson's moving piece on CommonDreams.org.

And, of course, you've heard that as part of this administration's PR campaign, they have banned any media coverage of flag-draped coffins of returning dead American soldiers. Plus mainstream American media is not showing video or photographs of dead soldiers or dead Iraqi civilians. Why are American citizens sitting on their butts accepting all this? Where is the outrage?

CodePink is suggesting we give the so-called president a pink slip: in fact, we should give him thousands, millions of pink slips. In case you're wondering why we would want to fire him, check out the Top Ten Lies of the Bush Administration. I admire CodePink's creativity. We're gonna need that to get rid of these scoundrels.

Big Brother is here, and he's altering the historical record. Bushspeak. (Translated: lies, lies, and bigger lies.) The White House is now altering the White House web pages, so that they reflect Bushspeak. When the so-called president was on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003, he declared that combat operations in Iraq had ended. We all remember that, right? Now the website says that Bush said that all major combat operations in Iraq had ended.

Bush is trying to hide from the truth. He doesn't want us to see photos of flag-draped coffins or dead soldiers in Iraq. He wants to whitewash it all. Fortunately, he does not yet have the means to censor all news. Photos of US soldiers who have died in Iraq tell the tale at CNN.com. On Tuesday, Michael Paul Barrera, 26, from Von Ormy, Texas, and Isaac Campoy, 21, of Douglas, Arizona died in Baqubah, Iraq when their tank was hit.

I'm sure their coffins will be draped in red, white, and blue, even if we don't see photographs of them.

May they rest in Peace.

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