Paying for Press pt. 2

Yeah, yeah, I'm on this again.

Is anyone else tired of the US being required to be a saint in the world of pirates? I've never been fond of the Captain Whitebread super-hero, and I find it appalling that reasonable actions used by the military are called scandalous because some slow witted politicians think they may hurt our reputation in the world.

Citing increasing concerns about the matter, the Senate Armed Services Committee summoned Defense Department officials to Capitol Hill for a briefing today.

''I am concerned about any actions that may undermine the credibility of the United States as we help the Iraqi people stand up a democracy," said Committee Chairman John Warner, Republican of Virgina, adding that he has no information to confirm or refute the reports. ''A free and independent press is critical to the functioning of a democracy, and I am concerned about any actions which may erode the independence of the Iraqi media."

Fine that you want an independent press. You probably should also want a responsible press. But why wish that on them when we don't even have that in this country. As to credibility, can anyone, with a straight face, state that the US has any real credibility with people in general in the middle east? Last polls I saw showed that most middle east countries loathe the US by large majorities.

I still haven't found any report of propaganda that provides false information to the Iraqi press. It makes one wonder if these people understand that the military is in a theater of conflict at them moment. Ask yourself, why would the military do this?

Defense Department officials in Baghdad continued to defend the program, saying it is a necessary tool to provide factual information to the Iraqi people.

It's even more than that. This is definitely propaganda. The purpose of which is to attempt to sway the moderate majority of Iraqis that the US isn't a monster and that the US does intend to leave the country better than it was. You know, that type of information that causes less Iraqis to build IEDs and try to kill our soldiers.

Being the Boston Globe they had to give voice to the local royalty on the matter.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, slammed the program as a devious scheme that ''speaks volumes about the president's credibility gap. If Americans were truly welcomed in Iraq as liberators, we wouldn't have to doctor the news for the Iraqi people."

Devious scheme? You bloated pompous jack-ass. Nice of you to condemn the military for trying to make the soldiers lives any more secure. Being that Teddy-the-Tick is a politician, I'm not surprised that he places all fault for acts that he conceives as evil, on the president. Can Teddy honestly state that he believed, or anyone in the US for that matter, that all Iraqis would consider the US occupation as an act of liberation? No one was that foolish. Even the best estimates stated that there would be some insurgency. As is typical, Teddy has made an illogical premise for his statement to forward his view point vice reality. (Buffoon)