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“Bush fibbed, people lived!!!”

So sayeth the Mudville Gazette.  Actually, the MSM says it, too, just not in so many words.  Excerpts:

Want more evidence of victory in Iraq? Look no further than Newsweek’s amazing attempt at spin:

The Bush administration is starving for good news out of Iraq, and it may finally have some: new U.S. government statistics showing that violent attacks of all kinds are down to levels not seen since 2005. But until recently, the administration appears to have resisted acknowledging a key element of the new data, because it flies in the face of President George W. Bush’s ongoing rhetorical confrontation with Iran’s clerical regime. According to three senior U.S. officials, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, the decline in Iraq violence also includes a decrease in the number of attacks attributable to insurgents backed or armed by Iran. Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell confirmed to NEWSWEEK that “there has indeed been a drop” in such attacks, but he added that “it’s not entirely clear what the reason for that is.”

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Bush administration has now been accused of trying to cover up good news from Iraq. The second paragraph just piles on the ignorance – with a shocking secret revealed:

Overall trends show a significant drop in violence over the last several months, according to previously unpublished military statistics obtained by NEWSWEEK. During a single week in mid-September, attacks in Iraq totaled about 900—down from about 1,700 a week in June. The number of attacks increased slightly in late September and early October during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. But according to the statistics, the just-ended Ramadan holiday was significantly less violent this year than in the previous two years.

I call on all mainstream media outlets everywhere to join Newsweek’s effort to expose this massive coverup!!!!

This also helps explain why so many Democratic Senators attacked General Petraeus’ credibility a few weeks ago: Just like in ’03, that tricksy Bush had fooled them again! (Bush fibbed, people lived!!!)
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Just wait til they discover this never-before published quadruple super secret news from the UN:

Iraq: Violence-related deaths drop ‘remarkably’, say authorities and UNBAGHDAD, 21 October 2007 (IRIN) – Iraqis are breathing a sigh of relief as violence in their war-torn country is ebbing and the number of violence-related victims has dropped sharply since the beginning of this year, according to statistics compiled by the country’s interior, defence and health ministries.

“Violence-related deaths in September dropped remarkably to levels not seen in more than a year as the number [of violence-related deaths] stood at 290 while in September 2006 the number was about 1,400,” Adel Muhsin, the health ministry’s inspector-general, told IRIN in a phone interview.

According to the ministry’s statistics, between January and the end of September 2007, the number of violent deaths involving civilian, police and military in all of Iraq was about 7,100, against 27,000 in the same period of 2006.

According to Muhsin, the average number of dead bodies sent to Baghdad’s main morgue just over a year ago was between 100 and 150 a day. Now, it is no more than 10 bodies a day, and about 50 percent of them are dying in normal circumstances. … 

Meanwhile, CNN and the Washington Post continue to execute the Bush coverup!

CHARLES GIBSON, ABC ANCHOR: The U.S. military reports the fourth straight month of decline in troop deaths, 66 American troops died in September, each a terrible tragedy for a family, but the number far less than those who died in August. And the Iraqi government says civilian deaths across Iraq fell by half last month.KURTZ: Joining us now to put this into perspective, Robin Wright, who covers national security for The Washington Post. And CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.

Robin Wright, should that decline in Iraq casualties have gotten more media attention?

ROBIN WRIGHT, THE WASHINGTON POST: Not necessarily. The fact is we’re at the beginning of a trend — and it’s not even sure that it is a trend yet. There is also an enormous dispute over how to count the numbers. There are different kinds of deaths in Iraq.
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KURTZ: Barbara Starr, CNN did mostly quick reads by anchors of these numbers. There was a taped report on “LOU DOBBS TONIGHT.” Do you think this story deserved more attention? We don’t know whether it is a trend or not but those are intriguing numbers.

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: But that’s the problem, we don’t know whether it is a trend about specifically the decline in the number of U.S. troops being killed in Iraq. This is not enduring progress.
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KURTZ: But let’s say that the figures had shown that casualties were going up for U.S. soldiers and going up for Iraqi civilians. I think that would have made some front pages.

STARR: Oh, I think inevitably it would have. I mean, that’s certainly — that, by any definition, is news.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

October 23, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, media bias | 2 Comments

The left’s “war on children”

Excellent nail-on-the-head column by Mark Steyn, rebutting the “GOP hates kids” bullS-CHIP debate.  Excerpts:

One assumes he means some illegal Republican Party “war on children.” Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as the children’s Congress … Come forward on behalf of the children … I tried to do that when I was sworn in as speaker surrounded by children. It was a spontaneous moment, but it was one that was clear in its message: we are gaveling this House to order on behalf of the children.”

Etc. So what is the best thing America could do “for the children”? Well, it could try not to make the same mistake as most of the rest of the Western world and avoid bequeathing the next generation a system of unsustainable entitlements that turns the entire nation into a giant Ponzi scheme. Most of us understand, for example, that Social Security needs to be “fixed” – or we’ll have to raise taxes, or the retirement age, or cut benefits, etc. But, just to get the entitlements debate in perspective, projected public pensions liabilities in the United States are expected to rise by 2040 to about 6.8 percent of our gross domestic product. In Greece, the equivalent figure is 25 percent – that’s not a matter of raising taxes or tweaking retirement age; that’s total societal collapse.

So what? shrug the voters. Not my problem. I paid my taxes, I want my benefits.
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And so, in a democratic system today’s electors vote to keep the government gravy coming and leave it to tomorrow for “the children” to worry about. That’s the real “war on children” – and every time you add a new entitlement to the budget you make it less and less likely they’ll win it. 

…As I point out in my book, nothing makes a citizen more selfish than socially equitable communitarianism: Once a fellow’s enjoying the fruits of Euro-style entitlements, he couldn’t give a hoot about the general societal interest; he’s got his, and who cares if it’s going to bankrupt the state a generation hence?

That’s the real “war on children”: in Europe, it’s killing their future. Don’t make the same mistake here.

Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.  It’s not long, but it is as entertaining as it is enlightening.

October 23, 2007 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance, socialism | 3 Comments

Yon calls out the MSM

Michael Yon, correspondent from Afghanistan and Iraq who constantly reports both good and bad news (yes, lefties, there actually is good news from Iraq, and lots of it), is mystified at the disconnect between the reality of Iraq and the steaming pile of bovine loaf that the MSM feeds us.  He’s finally had it!

He’s offering FREE SYNDICATION of his dispatches to National Newspaper Association members.

…Although it took a little back and forth, and some additional pressure from all the other bloggers who started tracking on the topic, the AP finally dispatched a reporter to the scene. The resulting article was picked up by at least one other major media outlet, reaching thousands more people. This got me to thinking: what if I made a similar offer on a more permanent basis to a large media syndication, say, the National Newspaper Association?…

A ballsy move from a guy who sounds pretty damned pissed off. Also in this piece is a brutal take down of the media’s apparently bogus portrayal that Basra is falling apart in the wake of the Brit draw down. Bob Owens at CY gets props for leaning on AP hard too. 

You go, sir!

October 23, 2007 Posted by | Iraq, media bias | Leave a Comment

Airlines, travel companies get in on “carbon offsets” scheme

A fool and his money are soon parted.  From the NJ fishwrap:

“Every business has an impact on the environment,” said Lawrence Hunt, chief executive of Silverjet, who describes himself as both the chief executive and the chief environmental officer of the airline. “We realized we had an opportunity before we started the airline 18 months ago, and we decided to go fully carbon neutral at the start.”

Silverjet is part of a “green” movement in the aviation industry that has taken off in the past year. Major airlines including Delta, Continental, British Airways and Air Canada; and travel companies such as Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity are now offering “carbon offsets” to passengers for as little as $5 a flight when they book their tickets.

As stated before, carbon offsets are a total sham, akin to “indulgences” in the Middle Ages.  It gives those with money a license to spew CO2 and “atone” by paying a glorified licensing fee, all while doing nothing to reduce the so-called “footprint”.  I would be critical of the airlines, but all they’re doing is making money off of idiots.

October 23, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance, environuts, global warming, hypocrisy | Leave a Comment

Second-grader suspended for drawing picture of water gun

Government schools strike again.  From MSNBC:

A New Jersey second-grader’s drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun has earned him a one-day school suspension.

Seven-year-old Kyle Walker’s mom told an The Press newspaper of Atlantic City that her son was suspended for violating the district’s zero-tolerance policy on guns. She said her son told her he’d drawn a water pistol.

Kyle gave the picture to another child on the school bus, and that child’s parents complained about it to school officials.

The case is not the first in New Jersey in which students were suspended for depictions of weapons.

Four kindergarten boys were suspended in 2000 for playing cops and robbers, even though they were using their fingers as guns.

Just remember this: “zero tolerance” means “zero common sense” in a government school.  My gosh, our decayed society won’t even let kids be kids anymore.

October 23, 2007 Posted by | political correctness, public education | 3 Comments

Chuck Norris endorses Mike Huckabee

Yes, he does.  So, maggots, that’s who you’re going to vote for.  After all, as Allah says, “Chuck Norris doesn’t vote, Chuck Norris tells America how it’s going to be.”

October 23, 2007 Posted by | Huckabee | 1 Comment

   

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