Iraq, Democracy, the Media, Refugees and Bullshit

BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 — With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States.

--SABRINA TAVERNISE and ROBERT WORTH New York Times


The President has been telling us for some years now we’re winning the war in Iraq, that post Saddam Iraq is a better place and that the world is also a beneficiary of Saddam’s rather clumsy exit from the Iraqi Presidency . Indeed, after all that bull about WMD's got brushed aside, as the irrelevancy that it was, the Prez started to regularly talk about bringing those poor folks a little badly needed democracy, and, according to him, we've done that. Of course, we're still havin' a little trouble with those folks who hate democracy, but were makin' progress and it's important to remember that this makin' democracy business is hard work; it takes lots a time too; it's complicated stuff. The rule of the Sunni strong man has been replaced by the Shiite death squads who’re busy with their ethnic cleansing operation, and given the body count posted each day they’re gettin’ the job done.

Well anyway, I know all about the makin' democracy stuff; I've been listening to the Prez. Fact is, as old Rummy ( remember him) used to say, the press concentrates on the negative; they don't tell about all the good things we've done over there. No, according to Rummy, the mainstream media just focus on the actions of a few thugs. If you have trouble with that just you remember that VP Cheney told us basically the same thing. Then too we had the same good news from Paul Wolfwitz.

And damn, who can forget Condi's spacey toothed grin, as she proudly sat there in front of the NBC Meet The Press cameras telling the world about all those Iraqi citizens takin' to the streets to flash their purple thumbs, announcing to the world, as they did so, that they were finally livin' in a USA bona fide democracy. Yup, that was the message; I heard it enough times to finally get it.

But, make no mistake about it, you have to just be careful whose crap you listen to, or you’ll get snookered. Right now ( December 26, 2006) Eleanor Clift of Newsweek is writing that, “The administration had the media snookered much of the time. Stories that were under reported largely because they ran counter to administration spin include: [among several others]
# A study that shows the death toll among Iraqis has reached as high as 655,000. Extensively researched by teams of doctors commissioned by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md., the study—and the controversy over its sampling methodology—was given scant attention by the media because it was so far out of line from the administration’s projection of perhaps 50,000 civilian deaths."

Like I said, you just can’t trust the damned leftist mainstream media. So what if a few hundred thousand Iraqis got knock off; as I said earlier, this democracy business is hard work and nothin’ good comes cheap. The point is, as the Prez told a reporter Oct 25, 2006, when he was ask weather or not we are winning the war, “Absolutely, we’re winning.” Now it is true that a few days later when asked the same question he replied, “Well, we’re not winning, but we’re not losing either.” To be sure this democracy stuff is complicated and a little hard to sort out, but I guess that’s why the Prez was honest enough to say right up front that being Prez is damn hard work. Mind you now he didn’t say “damn;” that was just a little of me seepin’ in. Old George, as I’m sure you know, is a deeply religious man.

Anyway, democracy's work is not over! There's still some rough sledin' ahead, and we need to remain steadfast in our resolve to help those people. BUT, and this is the kicker, there are people out there, mostly the mainstream press, who are now starting to spread the rumor that the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who've fled their battle torn country for refuge in Jordan and Syria want to resettle here in the good old USA as political refugees. Yup! That’s the rumor, Acording to that leftist Big Apple Times, “Some critics say the Bush administration has been reluctant to create a significant refugee program because to do so would be tantamount to conceding failure in Iraq. “ Don't you dare support such non sense! That’s just more of the cut and run, defeatist crap we hearfrom the effete, pusillanimous, snivlin', lilly livered leftists in the Democrat controlled Congress. Damned bunch of defeatocrats they are!

Iraq is now a democracy controlled by it's purple thumbed people. They don't want to come to the US. Don’t buy that refugee crap. It's all a do gooder's plot being hatched by left-wingers in Washington and being pushed by a hostile press.

In sum, if you really want to know what's happening in Iraq give old Rush a listen. He'll tell ya the truth. If you can't find Rush on the dial, or if he’s off on an Oxy high, try that good lookin' Laura Ingraham, a right wing bitch with a brainless bark, but she's got a pipe line to truth, so you might want to listen to her pontificate on the present state of affairs in Iraq; she puts out some truly edifyin' stuff.

Keepin’ an eagle eye on things for ya,

Davy Crockett