Americans Are Not Being Leveled With

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.counterpunch.org/richman06132011.html

If one is to judge by the tone of the television commentators, America must be deep in a crisis. Long stretches of cable time are devoted to the breaking news. Each detail is presented as more grave and consequential for the republic than the last. The fate of the country surely hangs in the balance.

What is it? War? Fiscal crisis? Mass unemployment? A double-dip recession?

No. A congressman was caught sending lewd photographs of himself to women over the Internet.


:snip:

During the more than weeklong scandal, some indisputably more important things have been going on. For example, just a few days ago five U.S. military personnel were killed in Iraq. Remember Iraq? That's the country the U.S. government invaded in 2003 on the basis of cynical lies about weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda collusion, and has occupied ever since. Last year President Obama triumphantly announced to the American people that the war there was over as he withdrew all but about 47,000 troops. (As though that is an insignificant force.) MSNBC's Obama cheerleading section was on the scene to record the historic event. Wikipedia gives opening and closing dates for the war: March 20, 2003 – August 31, 2010. So it must be over, right?


More at the link --

[flakey_foont]

1. Thanks for the link

[Skidmore]

2. So you are gauging truth by an entry by lordknowswho in Wikipedia?

Do you ever have anything positive to say at all about anything?

[xphile]

3. Actually the Wikipedia part of the quote is being sarcastic. Perhaps your ability to comprehend

what you are reading is being clouded by your obvious animosity toward the author of the OP.

[bvar22]

4. "withdrew all but about 47,000 troops"

That number does not include the "Private Military Contractors" (Mercenaries) remaining in Iraq.
In 2006, the number of mercenaries employed by the US roughly equaled the number of US Troops.
Since then, it has been difficult to determine the number of "private" troops deployed in Iraq by the US government.
I suspect that the ratio is about the same, though I wouldn't be shocked if the number of mercenaries is much higher today.

Does anyone KNOW how many Armed Private Military "Contractors" remain in Iraq?

Does anybody here really believe that the War in Iraq is over,
and the troops have been brought home?

[NCarolinawoman]

5. Not much difference between cable news and the drek on "Inside Edition" and "Entertainment Tonight".

:puke:

Bread and circuses and nothing much else.