You are correct, of course. This is a semantic war and as stated by many people here (PRH, EEE, and many more) it's a hearts & minds war. Not just the hearts & minds of Iraqis but of Americans too.
These guys have shown little interest really in winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis though. Iraqis don't vote in November. Hey, but since we are sort of setting them up to be the 51st state and we are teaching them about "democracy"...or at least our brand of it...why not let the Iraqis vote in our presidential election this year? Show them what it's all about..hey isn't Diebold going to provide voting machines for that much anticipated Iraqi election? Whenever that might happen.
I think it would be a good idea to let them have a trial run at how to use the machines and let them vote for the next American president. After all, whoever is president of the United States has a really big say on what goes on in our new democratic state of Iraq! Plus, I mean we know how confusing these voting machines can be. The people of Florida have been using them for years and they were totally lost the last time they had to vote for a president. It takes practice you know.
Oh, yeah...those two wonderful words "plausible deniability" that great Americans like Nixon, Reagan, and Bush the 1st and the members of their administrations posited so permanently in our lexicon.
Oh, whadda ya know! Members of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 1 administrations are major and bit players in this Dubya administration. I think they (and their traveling team of lawyers) want to keep those two little words alive and well. I hear, can't confirm it, James Baker has those two sweet little words tattooed on his ass. In a heart, of course.
Isn't it great too...as you pointed out there MJG...that we have these new rules about "enemy combatants"...ya know...how we define one and what we can do to them...and ya know how guys like Pat and Kevin G seem to be pushing to define members of the media...probably all employees of the New York Times, ABC, CBS, and NBC...oh hell and I guess CNN...oh yeah don't want to leave out PBS...as enemy combatants!
Hell, Pat just went on a rant about how they are the enemy because they had the nerve to report what was going on in Iraq...oh yeah...and that Ted Koppel guy...he surely is an enemy combatant because he read the names of the war dead ON TV! That bastard!
James Baker and Karl Rove must be foaming at the mouth thinking what they could do if only a good section of the population would buy into the fact that news media members could actually be defined as "enemy combatants"...hey they've got Pat and Kevin G on board.
They could make FOX the one and only "Homeland Security TV Station"...I'm sure the people at Sinclair Broadcasting have already signed papers on that.
Rush, Hannity, and Laura Ingraham could become the voices of the only "Homeland Radio Station."
They could install Ann Coulter as editor and chief of the "Homeland Herald"...formally known as the New York Times.
They could do all this because those traitorous media types would all have been defined as "enemy combatants" and shipped to Gitmo indefinatly without access to counsel. Of, course they could do this with "plausible deniability" because these are the new rules we live under during this "War on Terror"...
Of course this would never come to pass because most of us are sane enough not to let that happen...right? I mean, Pat and Kevin G don't represent the majority...do they?
