Pay No Attention To The War Behind The Curtains

Remember three years ago when the U.S. was invading Iraq and the media kept intercepting Iraqi news coverage of the whole affair from Baghdad?

The top advisor guy to Saddam came on when we first invaded and he was like “Oh, there’s no invasion. Nothing to worry about. Everyone go about your business. No one would dare invade Iraq while Saddam is in charge.”

Then like a day or so later, he was like “O.K. The Americans are invading but Iraq is strong and mighty and we are beating the vernim back and we are winning the war under Saddam’s mighty leadership.”

Then as American soldiers were approaching Baghdad, he kept going on the television like every hour or so in a very panicky way telling the Iraqi public not to panic because the U.S. troops were no where near Baghdad, but toward the end there it was so ridiculous because you could not only hear the bombs going off in the background but you could see the walls trembling from the nearby blasts.

I’ve been flashing back to these scenes the last few weeks as Rumsfeld and Cheney and even Iraqi “official” types have made announcements to assure the American populace that Iraq was not having a Civil War and was no where near a Civil War and Fox News even claimed that the media had made up the idea of a Civil War.

Now all of a sudden over the weekend, everyone’s like, “O.K. Maybe there’s a Civil War. In fact, maybe it’s been going on for six months or so. We really didn’t want to mention it. Didn’t want to worry anyone.”

I guess there’s only so long you can hide the really, really obvious for so long. I mean, how many Americans were really buying that story about there being no Civil War when there were reports of 50 to 100 bodies being found daily in acts of violence? We’re not talking about muggings and gang wars here, y’all. I just don’t understand why the White House and the Pentagon and even the media like Fox News wanted to candy coat it and pretend it wasn’t happening. We can’t actually solve the problem until we accept it for what it is. Didn’t George learn that as one of his steps of recovery?

tags: Iraq, Civil War, George W. Bush, politics, Fox News

One comment

1. on March 24, 2006 at 9:33 am

   Big Dog said:

   I don’t know if they are or will have a civil war but I am sure that 50 or 100 people killed is a crime, not a civil war.

   These people have been killing folks from other sects for thousands of years so I guess we could say they have been at civil war for that long.

   Hussein killed a bunh of Kurds, was that a civil war or a crime?

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