Well the Iraq War is an illegal war, so it's not surprising that the US would flee like guilty criminals. And, no, we're not talking about US forces, we're talking about the press.
Dan Morse (Washington Post) reported Friday, "At least 72 people were killed Thursday in a series of attacks on Shiites in Iraq, marking the deadliest day since U.S. troops withdrew last month and raising new worries about the country's sharp sectarian divisions." And where was the NPR report?
Remember NPR?
Remember all their high minded claims about how they were going to spend that McDonald money Joan Kroc left them?
Real reporting from NPR. Not just some DC stories and a lot of gas baggery, but real reporting. And as newspapers were cutting back, NPR claimed, they'd be increasing their spending to bring news, news, news.
Instead, they bring a lot of trash. Kat called out the nonsense of a group of cackling hens pretending to discuss music of 2011 while offering nothing but tabloid gossip. This is coverage worth paying for? This is news and information?
So while Iraq was targeted with bombings last week, the "Iraq correspondent" was in Bahrain. And December 31st, both McClatchy Newspapers and NPR shut down their Baghdad bureaus. December 30th, there was a protest in Baghdad, not that either of them covered it. The only news outlet to cover it was CNN via Jomana Karadsheh Tweets.
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Police Gen. there said gathering was "unauthorized" &kept asking them 2 leave. Hrs later, protesters set #US flag on fire &were beaten up
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Protesters down to 8 ppl at the end kept asking us not leave, saying our presence stops security forces from detaining them. #Iraq
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Camera of 1 Iraqi channel confiscated, our cameraman prevented from filming& my cell phone almost confiscated after taking one still. #Iraq
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protesters surrounded as we left, 1 telling me now 3 were detained after being beaten up. cant reach them 2 confirm, their phones off. #IRAQ
And coverage doesn't matter?
To whom? To those with deep guilt?
The US government started this war and it's not over but damned if the media and certain Democrats who whore themselves to Barack want to pretend like it is.
Those who turn away now are just as guilty as George W. Bush. They're denying the realities of war and pretending that when the government that launched illegal attack says it's over, then it's over. It's imperialism at its most offensive.