Is America bored with Iraq or is the media? And how will they stop Obama fro ruining the party?

[bushmeister0]

AP reported yesterday morning at 7 AM:

"The US death toll in Iraq had just passed 4,000, but on Monday the most viewed story on Yahoo News was 'Oil fluctuates as dollar, stocks rise.' And the most emailed story was: '1986 message in bottle drifts 1,735 miles.' Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq began, Americans' interest in the war, and press coverage of it, is flagging."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080325/ts_alt_afp/usiraqconflict5yrsmedia_080325141316

That's the operative phrase there, "Americans' interest . . . and press coverage of it," as if the press follows what Americans are interested in. Someone, somewhere has decided we don't want too much Iraq talk when it comes to electing a Republican for president who's made his entire career out of getting us into a war in Iraq.

Some of you may have seen the Frontline special "Bush's War." Did you happen to notice a short interview with Francis Brooke, during the Ahmad Chalabi part?

Check out this at Cooperative Reasearch.org on Francis Brooke

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=francis_brooke

It will blow your sox off!

Brooke worked for BKSH, a lobbying firm that brought us the phony Kuwaiti nurse who shocked congress into war in 1991 with tales of Saddam's soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and later in 2002/03 Chalabi's liar "curveball," who brought us the mobile chemical weapons labs. Brooke has worked, and is still working, with McCain. (Another person, btw, who worked for McCain from the beginning was Victoria Clake, the pentagon spokesperson leading up to the invasion, who also worked for Hill & Knowlton also involved in the phony nurse story.)

http://www.answers.com/topic/nurse-nayirah?nr=1&lsc=true

And check this Dailykos piece on Mark Penn and top MaCain advisor Charlie Black and theer relationship to BKSH and how either Hillary or McCain winning would be fine by them -- and for business as usual.

"Hillary Clinton's chief strategist is Mark Penn, and Charlie Black, John McCain's top adviser, is chairman of BKSH, the DC-based lobbying subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller -- of which Mark Penn is CEO."

For more info see my post of March 13th here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3004400

This is all one big, massive scam. There's a reason good news from Iraq is good for McCain. Conventional wisdom would say supporting an unpopular war is death for any candidate, so the narrative must be changed. Look over there, it's your house being foreclosed! It's Elliot Spitzer's penis! Watch out! Britney has not only shaved her head . . . ouch! Don't look too closely at that man behind the curtain!

It's turning out to look like Obama is the worst nightmare for all concerned and they will stop at nothing to stop him.

[Life Long Dem]

1. I think it has more to do with Bush and congress.

Nothing is being done. How many times do you want to hear congress say they will not fund the war only to see them cave in.

[LaPera]

2. Not a pretty picture for the republican media....so let choose to ignore.

Though Cheney is wargomering, that too is ignore...they want it

Those huge Iranian oil fields they hope would be up for grabs, ( with our tax dollars paying for their military) one of the promises before they leave office, to the OIL boys, donators in Texas and that's now and has been their purpose before they leave it to McCain.

Expect bombings around late summer or fall, depending how much they need to help the old idiot, fascist McCain...Cheney is warning all (SA) now!

It will happen before they leave office. That's their promise!

[bushmeister0]

4. My prediction this year is April the 6th.

That's the next new moon. It's better to attack in darkness and in the spring before the weather over there undermines our super technology. Of course, seeing what Hezbollah did with the IDF in the summer of '06, it seems they've solved the darkness problem. Although, it's yet to be seen whether they've learned anything from recent history.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Media/Corps are tone deaf to the war because

they are complicit in its perpetuation, and the government is intolerant of real news.

[bushmeister0]

5. The point I'm tryting to make is that the Iraq war was long in the making

and as much as I'm not into Obama, it seems the corporate state is content to have Hillary as prez if McCain isn't elected, although that's who'd they'd prefer. Obama is clearly a nightmare to these types.

Justs look a little closer into what I linked.

[lligrd]

6. PNAC - Did Hillary Buy In

just to get elected?