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September 23, 2006
NYTimes Fires Opening Salvo
The New York Times just fired their opening salvo in their relentless campaign to elect Democrats this fall.
Someone posted the article in a post below, but you can find the article from the NYTimes here.
In typical hack fashion, the headline says nothing about the article - just what the NY Times wants you to believe.
SPY ANGENCIES SAY IRAQ WAR WORSENS TERROR THREAT
Of course it does! When you're at war with people and have a media that is hell bent on portraying America as the source of evil in the world, it's going to be a good propaganda tool, ya think? But, in fact, the article actually shows that there is a long list of grievances these people have and that the Jihadist movement is growing because of the Internet and the exploitatio nof tragedies like Abu Ghraib by the American Left. Look at the opening graph:
A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Okay, so the report says that Iraq has a role in growing terrorism. But if you go to the END of the article, you realize that the report discusses much more.
Previous drafts described actions by the United States government that were determined to have stoked the jihad movement, like the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, and some policy makers argued that the intelligence estimate should be more focused on specific steps to mitigate the terror threat. It is unclear whether the final draft of the intelligence estimate criticizes individual policies of the United States, but intelligence officials involved in preparing the document said that its conclusions were not softened or massaged for political purposes. [emphasis mine]
Still, nothing about Iraq here. Let's keep going...
The estimate concludes that the radical Islamic movement has expanded from a core of Qaeda operatives and affiliated groups to include a new class of “self-generating” cells inspired by Al Qaeda’s leadership but without any direct connection to Osama bin Laden or his top lieutenants.
It also examines how the Internet has helped spread jihadist ideology, and how cyberspace has become a haven for terrorist operatives who no longer have geographical refuges in countries like Afghanistan.
Still, nothing here about the actual Iraq liberation...wouldn't an article about how IRAQ WORSENS TERRORISM have paragraph after paragraph about, um, Iraq? Let's look some more...
For more than two years, there has been tension between the Bush administration and American spy agencies over the violence in Iraq and the prospects for a stable democracy in the country. Some intelligence officials have said that the White House has consistently presented a more optimistic picture of the situation in Iraq than justified by intelligence reports from the field.
Finally, a mention of Iraq, but if you actually read the paragraph, you will see that this mention of Iraq has NOTHING to do with the report. It is simply an assertion by the writer. There is no statement relating this report (or the NY Times headline) and Iraq.
Let's look at the last two paragraphs...
The panel investigating the London terrorist bombings of July 2005 reported in May that the leaders of Britain’s domestic and international intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, “emphasized to the committee the growing scale of the Islamist terrorist threat.”
More recently, the Council on Global Terrorism, an independent research group of respected terrorism experts, assigned a grade of “D+” to United States efforts over the past five years to combat Islamic extremism. The council concluded that “there is every sign that radicalization in the Muslim world is spreading rather than shrinking.”
Nothing. All this article says is that there is a growing terrorist threat and that Iraq (among many other things, real or imagined), is a factor. And yet, the NY Times wants you to believe that Iraq is the problem and it has nothing to do with the West trying to take care of business and the the anti-civilization Islamic Nazis are trying to push back with their accopmlices in the form of Bush haters with the Internet as a tool.
No wonder this paper is going out of business. I sure hope I never see Bill Keller at an Alumni Week at Pomona. I might be tempted to spit in his face.
Posted by Aaron at September 23, 2006 07:24 PM
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The pattern continues, the NYTIMES leaks classified info, provided, most likely, by a liberal Democrat Partisan slanting the information to undermine the Administration, while weakening our efforts in the GWOT.
It is simply self serving garbage, and an outrage.
Posted by: hnav at September 25, 2006 10:27 AM
If the campaign just had it's "opening salvo", how can it already be "relentless"?
giggling like a little girl
Posted by: paul at September 27, 2006 06:56 AM