Thu Aug 30, 2007 at 11:24:01 AM EDT
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The Trenton Times has an excellent Editorial today titled "Shameless Exploitation" and its a pretty damning indictment of the argument going on over the war in Iraq...You may have seen or heard one of the slick ads. A young former soldier, a double amputee as a result of wounds suffered while fighting in Iraq, declares that if we don't fight those who attacked us there (Iraq), then we'll have to fight them here. Let us finish the job, the soldier intones. The emotional film also shows a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. First, let me thank the soldier for his service. Now onto the ad: Of course, you have to get the World Trade Center in there, because what discussion of Iraq would be complete without invoking 9/11 even though they have nothing to do with each other. The editorial calls them on that too...The ad is one more example of the administration's shameless attempts to mislead the American public. If we really want to follow the ad's message, then it appears that we should be attacking Saudia Arabia. Those who attacked us were not from Iraq; most of the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, our "great" ally. Most certainly, al Qaeda is in Iraq today, but only because the war, according to our own intelligence assessments, has stirred the hornets' nest of Islamic extremists. They go on to explain why this "latest assault on reality" will not succeed...They have no credibility because the architects of the misguided war have never owned up to the mistakes it made in the mad rush to war or for the tragically bungled post-war strategy in Iraq. Or for the mistakes they continue to make this very day for that matter. The Editorial closes with a warning to be on the lookout for other shameless efforts in the future...We should prepare ourselves for more shameless exploitation by these well-heeled groups. They have money and emotion on their side. Certainly not reason or reality. Let's hope that reason and reality finally win out. The only way for that to happen is for Editorial boards, the media and the people to keep calling out the bullshit that this Administration is shoveling. |
| Jason Springer :: Trenton Times Editorial lays the smack down over the current Iraq war debate |
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