Something old, something new... a few more bits.
Powerline points out someone who plays the double-standard card with more convincing detail than I've seen anywhere else. But whatever you do, don't call Obama "elitist," you racist.
The media reports from Basra at the end of March drove me absolutely nuts. They were contradictory, fragmentary and incomprehensible. At the time, I missed the explanation for that. It was a matter of geography. Once again, I shouldn't be surprised. *sigh*
We've already heard about a U.S. Navy Destroyer with a blogging XO, but did you know the Navy has an official policy of encouraging blogging? BZ, Navy!! Now if someone would just by the Air Force a clue...
The media does it again - outright lies. I don't see how it could be called anything else. As I said to an empty-headed fellow citizen who exclaimed to me with horror how she'd read on the front page of the NYT that an "entire Iraqi unit" deserted despite the Americans begging them to stay (of course she didn't know it was comprised of about 20 people, or that the thousands of earlier deserters had led to Iraq leadership being fired), our country is endangered by the lack of a competent, honest, accurate, professional media. God help us.
Nobody seemed to notice, but the long-awaited opening of Iraq's southern oil fields to outside investment began this week. Successful implementation will be the determining economic factor in Iraq's full recovery and reconstruction.
If you haven't read this from Michael Totten, you really should.
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