The AP, always shills for the neo-cons, has finally gone utterly transparent with their bias in this article:
AP Asks: Why So Many Upset by Iraq Death Toll?
This makes me sick.
Here's the reason they published the article, where they asked "scholars" and "experts" this mind-bending question of why people are upset at the deaths -- so they could come out and say this:
But are Americans willing to hang in a tough fight anymore?
Some wonder if U.S. society, now populated by baby boomers who recall Vietnam and never knew the hardships of the Great Depression or World War II, has simply lost its stomach for great sacrifices.
Yeah, the old "some wonder" or "some say" trick. Like "some say the AP has been filled with those on the Bush P.R. payroll since 2000." Or "some wonder if the AP isn't completely infiltrated with Operation Mockingbird agents".
Look at how the AP gets all mystified at the question of WHY people are upset with a death toll of 3,000 in this "war":
Has something changed? Do Americans somehow place higher value on the lives of their soldiers now? Do they expect success at lower cost? Or do most simply dismiss this particular war as the wrong one - hard to understand and harder to win - and so not worth the losses?
The Associated Press recently posed these questions to scholars, veterans, activists, and other Americans. Their comments suggest that the public does express more pain over the deaths of this war.
The AP actually had to go pose these questions to SCHOLARS? Like it takes a SCHOLAR to tell you that Americans, and people in general, don't really enjoy seeing anybody killed for the sake of a LIE?
They come up with insulting and asinine theories like this one:
Greater wealth and smaller families make Americans even more protective of their children and more loath to send them into battle than they once were, some argue. They are "sort of hothouse kids," says Harvey Sapolsky, the retired head of security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who notes, "My grandparents had seven kids, my parents had two."
Oh sure! Families were always willing to send a few of their excess litters off to die for the lie, back in the "good old days". It was like "Yeah, take old Charley. He's kinda dumb. And that other kid, whasshisname, that one hidin' behind the chair, he's kind of a runt, take him, too!".
Yeah. I remember those days. Not.
And here they go again with the "some wonder" bullshit:
Some wonder if U.S. society, now populated by baby boomers who recall Vietnam and never knew the hardships of the Great Depression or World War II, has simply lost its stomach for great sacrifices. Or perhaps in a materialistic culture, priorities are simply elsewhere now.
Wait, I thought it was Dick Cheney whose had "other prioties" in Vietnam. Why doesn't they mention HIM in the article. At least he fucking admitted it.
Oh no. It's "America's fault" that we're losing. This is EXACTLY IN LINE with the Republican's new approach to fighting the propaganda war. Bush didn't lose the war. The AMERICAN PEOPLE DID because we don't HAVE THE STOMACH FOR IT.
Some say that the Associated Press are nothing but a bunch of paid republican hacks, willingly regurgitating the putrid stew of vomit which the Bush administration insists on raining down upon its people.
Some say the Associated Press has made a complete fool of itself in recent years, becoming a whorish mouthpiece for a cabal of quasi-fascist hell-bent on destroying this once great nation.
Sure, the AP isn't stupid enough to leave it at that. They found a few "experts" who hold the radical notion that perhaps people are upset about the death toll in Iraq because the mission there isn't "clear cut" and "dear". And that support dwindled because WMD's "weren't found". That it's "hard to understand and harder to win".
Give me a fucking break, AP ....
Never are the FACTS mentioned: The FACT that the Bush administration lied us into this war, and the FACT that Iraq was never a threat to the United States, or anybody else, to begin with, so the FACT that every single American soldier killed in this war is a tragedy, a manslaughter of felonious proportions in which the victim had absolutely no conttrol over his destiny and, in fact, was in a position where he THOUGHT he was doing the right thing and was DEFENDING HIS COUNTRY but in FACT was being used by a cabal of thugs to promulgate their political and economic machine of deceit and corruption.
This isn't the first time the AP has made me sick. Oh, no, they make me sick on an almost daily basis. Here are but two examples:
This is the same Associated Press which decided, during the "patriotic" fervor of the Iraq "war," to offer TWO versions of its stories to its newspaper subscribers, so the political slant of the newspaper could be more plainly obvious:
"The concept is simple: On major spot stories we will provide you with two versions to choose between," the AP said in an advisory to members. "One will be the traditional 'straight lead' that leads with the main facts of what took place. The other will be the 'optional,' an alternative approach that attempts to draw in the reader through imagery, narrative devices, perspective or other creative means."
AP "TRADITIONAL" LEAD:
MOSUL, Iraq (AP)--A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners Thursday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government.
AP "OPTIONAL" LEAD:
MOSUL, Iraq (AP)--Yet again, almost as if scripted, a day of hope for a new, democratic Iraq turned into a day of tears as a bloody insurgent attack undercut a political step forward. On Thursday, just as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad were telling reporters that they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government, a suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners in the northern city of Mosul.
And yes, this is the same Associated Press who described the case of Brian Doyle, a 55 year-old grey-haired Republican, and his attempt to have sex with a 14 year old girl thusly:
Homeland Deputy Arrested in Seduction Case
By MICHELLE SPITZER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 54 minutes ago
MIAMI - The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said.
A "teenage girl"? A 14 year old is a kid. A CHILD.
Hey, Associated Press: You are now IRRELEVANT. You are HISTORY.
Unless you start doing what your actual job is supposd to be, we have no further need for you. And without us, you're nothing.
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