Friday, November 21, 2008

Where have all the liberators gone?

And funny, this from MSNBC (the 'liberal' media?):
[Muqtada] Al-Sadr, who is believed to be in Iran, was not at the protest [against the US-Iraq withdrawl withdrawl--oh no, surrender!], though he wrote a sermon read by his representative, Sheik Abdul Hadi al-Mohammadawi, calling the United States "the enemy of Islam."
"The government must know that it is the people who help it in the good and the bad times. If it throws the occupier out all the Iraqi people will stand by it," the sermon read, using common rhetoric for the United States.
Did you spot it? Did you spot the funny, laugh-out-loud weasel phrase in this article? This is what people like Chomsky mean by 'biased media', although it is so subtle that a quick scan will usually miss this.
Will give you a second to go back and see....what part of this article could only have been written in the US or by a US proxy?
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Ok, get it? And the answer is: "using common rhetoric for the United States".
That is so awesome. Implying that we would not relate the 'occupier' with the US? Even if we assumed that I approved of the invasion (oh, shit....it wasn't an invasion...maybe I should take a page from the Japanese....achem...the 'advance' into) Iraq, what would not make the US an occupational force.?
Recap: they went in, killed tons of people, hung the ex-leader (bastard though he may have been...sure Rumsfeld was sad) then took over every aspect of the society. They set up a government that cannot do anything without final approval from the US, via various channels.
Fair enough. If you are for all of this, that is your opinion. But don't try to convince us, however subtly, that it is not an occupation.

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