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JANUARY 15, 2006
- One of the things the Bush/Limbaugh right has most preyed upon is
the media's short attention span.
The Bush/Limbaughians say things,
promise things, argue against things, but the media never follows up
to find out that again and again they were wrong, wrong, and wrong.
Here is a glaring example that, as
usual, gets a free pass in the non-Moderate Independent media.
It also happen to be an important example for Americans to pay
attention to when deciding which party and which candidates to back.
NEVER FORGET FALLUJAH
It was the week before the 2004
election. Suddenly, very publicly, the Bush administration
announced that a massive assault would be occurring against the
Iraqi town of Fallujah. The week before the election.
Anyone who pays attention to the Bush
administration saw this was an obvious ploy to scare people or woo
people into voting to them. All media outlets echoed
administration claims that this assault would "break the back" of
the insurgency, that the insurgency was in their "last throes" and
the Fallujah assault would finish them off. If you voted for
Bush, the assault would happen right after the election and end the
insurgency problem. If you didn't, it would be ruined and you
would be responsible for letting the insurgency continue.
Now militarily, what the Bush
administration did by making such a public show that the assault
would be occurring had two clear effects - to make the mission more
dangerous and less effective. Nothing had been so dumb since
the British decided to fight wars wearing bright red coats and with
marching bands leading the way to warn the enemy.
As a contact who works at the NSA
listening to insurgents in Iraq told me at the time, "They all just
left town when they heard of the assault coming. All that was
left was some people messing with us with psy ops." 'Psy ops'
is just a term that means psychological operations, which is a fancy
way of saying they are not really up to anything except messing with
our heads. He said it was obvious all the bad guys we really
wanted to get left town and so the assault would be pointless.
MSNBC was kind enough to point out after
the fact that that was indeed what occurred:
Many
Insurgents Apparently Fled From Fallujah. As this
story reported, "...advance U.S. and Iraqi government warnings gave
the militants plenty of time to get out of town, and it appears many
did just that."
In addition, this all gave them plenty
of warning to set up booby traps and make the mission deadlier for
our troops.
In fact, stories after the fact
confirmed this as well, reporting about, "often booby-trapped rubble
of Fallujah." -
CBN News, and "booby-trapped barricades " -
CNN.
Or what about this: Three
marines die in booby-trapped building in Fallujah: officer.
As this article reported, "Three marines have been killed in an
explosion as they entered a booby-trapped building in central
Fallujah."
And of course, the mission did not
"break the back" of the insurgency and had a high cost in American
lives.
All of the public trumpeting prior to
assault was unnecessary and occurred only because the Bush/Cheney
team cared only about reelection, not about getting the insurgents
nor about the lives of American troops. The assault did not
have to wait until election week, and it did not have to be
announced publicly, repeatedly. Lives were lost and a mission
was rendered pointless for the sake of advancing themselves.
Those three marines talked about above likely died as a result of
Bush/Cheney announcing the assault ahead of time for the sake of
gaining votes.
This tells you everything you need to
know about the Bush/Limbaughians and what the Iraq War and War On
Terror are to them. The mission means nothing, the troops mean
nothing, and, of course, as we have seen again and again, what they
say means nothing. The assault was to "break the back" of the
insurgency. The claim was asinine, and of course we have seen
it was not even remotely the case.
But for comic effect, look at these
propaganda articles that come out after the assault:
Al-Fallujah Offensive 'Breaks Backs' Of Rebels - for even better
comedy, this propaganda come out on the exact same day, Nov 19,
2004, via "Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty."
Now, legally speaking, if a religious
organization is taking propaganda direction directly from one
political party they should lose their tax-exempt status. This
is pretty clear evidence that this is the case.
It's also pretty amusing, is a morbid
sort of way. But perhaps best of all the CBN story above
points out, unwittingly, the deadly effects of the Bush
administration's public trumpeting of the impending assault the week
before the election. The quote above reporting about, "the
often booby-trapped rubble of Fallujah," comes from the CBN article
- they were bragging about how dangerous it was there; they left out
the part the Bush election ploy of announcing the coming assault was
responsible for this.
No American should ever - ever - forget
Fallujah. Any American that would jeopardize an important
mission and make a mission more dangerous and less effective for our
troops is no American at all, but a traitor who jeopardizes national
security for personal gain. And the absolute manipulation of
the media, and the media's embrace of the obvious manipulation,
which absolutely influenced the election, by echoing again and again
the week before an election that an assault was pending that would
"break the back" of the insurgency, speaks volumes about the value
of things the Bush administration says and their absolute control of
the entire non-Moderate Independent media. Not one media
outlet challenged any of it as a likely election week ploy, nor
questioned it as such after the fact..
Never forget the lies. Never
forget the undermining of our troops and our war effort. Never
forget the lives of those three marines. Never forget that,
yet again, the Bush/Limbaughians were proven to be exactly and
entirely wrong.
Never forget Fallujah.
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