Leb conflict takes spotlight off Bush gang

[dmosh42]

It has been reported that this conflict has taken the global focus off Iran, as the media has been completely homed into that area. But Bush has been able to come out of the shadows also, while not having to defend their position in Iraq. It seems weird to me that the world news seems aghast that there was 50 people killed in Lebanon on one day, while 100 is the average in Iraq on a daily basis.

[threadkillaz]

1. gone

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[radfringe]

2. It has taken the spot light off of Iraq

just like Iraq took the spotlight off of Afghanistan and the 'hunt for Bin-laden"

however - it really hasn't taken the spot light off of the bushies...

while I'm not discounting the probability that the bushies had something to do with escalating the Israel-Lebanon war (ILW)- this particular war wasn't started by USA directly invading...

the spot light is definitely on the bushies and how they are responding to the ILW - which is basically to sit around with their fingers up their butts while shouting about Iran and Syria

the situtation makes me very nervous on a couple different levels

- ILW could and probably will escalate even more and spread into Syria

- the bushies blaming Iran and Syria could be a ramp-up to another US invasion

- bush is on vacation

- repubs are in trouble and the (s)election is less than 100 days away

although this isn't my exact scenario for invading more countries, it's damn close

I had previously posted that I believed Israel would bomb an Iranian nuke facility, Iran would respond in kind and bush would call for US invading Iran in order to protect Israel

At the moment the ILW is limited to Israel and Lebanon... but we have Syria, Iran and the bushies stirring the pot

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. Good point! Recommended! Unbelievable Irony!

Our news media is severely handicapped! :grr: Here is a quote from J Edgar Hoover,"An individual becomes handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so Monstrous,he can not believe it exists."

[H2O Man]

4. I'm not sure.

While the corporate media is focused primarily upon Lebanon, I think that a large percent of the American public is able to recognize how much a failure that the "Bush doctrine" has been. I think that people are able to connect events there.

[lapfog_1]

5. Folks, think...

The press in Iraq is totally controlled by the military.

Not to mention that being a war correspondent in Iraq is almost suicide.

Lebanon, OTOH, has only the Hezbollah to control the press in the war zone, the Lebanese gov doesn't seem to try to censure anything and Hezbollah WANTS the press to cover the death and destruction. So the press rushes from air strike to bombing and takes as many pictures as they want (almost)... and if they have footage they have a story.

If they have footage, they have a story!!!

Otherwise, all they have is a talking head and numbers. No interviews with victims, no blood and gore.

This is the main lesson that the Pentagon "learned" from Veitnam... don't let the press send home the raw footage of what's being done in Joe Publics' name...

But Lebanon doesn't have these restrictions. Plenty of blood and gore and bombs dropping and craters and collapsed buildings.

And it's a NEW war (remember when Afghanistan was the "war de jour" and we have lots of footage and interviews?).

Anyway, that's why no more Iraq news.