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I have ceased to wonder who our National media are actually working for anymore folks. Newsweek has long appeared to me as a premier apologist for the Iraq War and Bush Administration policies. Someone bought me a subscription to the News magazine about 3 years ago. I could have just as well done without it. I once burned an issue in disgust.

Newsweek continues to exceed all of reader’s disillusioned expectations about Iraq in their April 2, 2007 issue. The timing of the article alone is enough to make the general disgust for this war seem more than justified. Unfortunately they (mis) use military families in this self righteous rationalizing editorial more than report about the lives lost in
Iraq and how Gold Star families feel about it.

The cover story, “The War in the Words of the Dead” features letters from Army First Lt. Kenneth Ballard wrote his mother from Najaf in May 2004. “My tank took another RPG this a.m. for a grand total of 8. It has turned into almost a game of sorts. They shoot, we get hit, we shoot back, killing them most of the time, only to repeat it all over again somewhere else in the city.”

The article then goes into a philosophic diatribe that attempts to mystify the conflict beyond any explanation. Taking the article to new heights of trippy-ness Newsweek opines,

“And so it goes on, and on, in places like Najaf, Baghdad, Fallujah and Anbar province, places that are only names on the news. It is difficult for many Americans to explain how all the pieces of the war fit together, or what separates a Sunni from a Shia, or what a stable Iraq would look like. This has been a strangely contextless conflict.”

For the folks at Newsweek I suppose this is standard fare that probably pays from both ends. They keep a mind numbed readership that has succumbed to the Orwellian belief that Ignorance Is Strength and believe in a corrupt government that claims War is Peace.

How could we question that such a critical mass of Iraqi’s resent the continued military occupation and state of war in their country four years after. With little to no security or economic stability, upwards of two-thirds unemployed, limited power and running water who could blame people for wanting to kill someone? Newsweek could never imagine such a thing, so it seems.
America and our military are so wonderful who wouldn’t want to be invaded, right George?

The wedge placed within Iraqi society has been caused by the unlawful and aggressive invasion of Iraqi without just cause. It was further wedged by the Occupation Authorities and the illegitimate National Elections held in Iraq under the rule of the former. The fires of militry occupation and war in Iraq continue to expand into Central Asia, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

The conflict has clearly deepened the divide between not only Islamic Nations and the United States but between Sunni and Shiite Iraqis. The reasons for this divide are explainable and remediable. The first step to recovery in this situation is to get the Troops Out Now! Not in a year from now, Speaker Pelosi, but within 4 months from now.

The next step is to stop funding military aggression against Iraq in any form whatsoever. No bombing campaigns, covert operations, or military bases may remain in Iraq. That may seem a tall order but then so is bringingU.S. mainstream media into line with reality in Iraq.

Last but certainly not least, we need to take care of our troops and help the Iraqi’s take care of their damaged society by giving economic support for an independent economy and autonomous leadership. Many U.S. contractors in Iraq should certainly be forced to repay billions of dollars in failed contracts to help Iraqi workers and industries develop on their own.

The thing Newsweek and NBC News, A General Electric subsidiary, ABC News, Disney Company, CBS News and the eternally infamous Fox News count on is our apathy becoming ignorance. The bread and circus of our corporate owned and operated society subtly and insidiously erases the past and rewrites the future before our eyes. The present moment is ours! I see a great awakening coming to dawn a new day. End the War Now! No compromise, no surrender.

This entry was posted Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 10:31 pm and is filed under 4th Estate (Media), Civil liberties Infringement, Corruption, Democracy, Disgrace to the Military, Federal Budget, George W. Bush, Iraq, Media Corrections By The People, Military, Peace, Political Corruption, This Blog, War, censorship. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.