Bias, Bias Everywhere...

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...and not a reporter to think.

Where to begin with this one? Here is an AP article that starts out trying to be informative- ostensibly about what it's headline says:

[[ U.S. Marine Jets Bomb 2 Bridges in Iraq ]]

It begins with those facts:

[[ U.S. Marine jets Tuesday attacked two bridges across the Euphrates River near the Syrian border to prevent insurgents from moving foreign fighters and munitions toward Baghdad and other cities, the U.S. command said.

A Marine statement also said U.S. and Iraqi forces destroyed a "foreign fighter safe house," killed two foreigners and arrested three others during a Tuesday raid in the same area as the bridge attack. ]]

Pretty good so far, right? Okay... now we go into the standard "body count". No, silly, not the enemy body count.

[[ At least 1,892 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. ]]

Please keep in mind that NO AMERICANS died in the operation that this article purports to be about.

Next, we must be reminded that kofi annan thinks we are evil by being in Iraq:

[[ The fighting occurred after U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Iraq had become an even greater terrorist center than Afghanistan under the Taliban. ]]

Then, a little more about the operation in the headline... and we suddenly are treated to more kofi wisdom!

[[ Annan told the British Broadcasting Corp. on Monday that many young Muslims are angry, and the situation has been exacerbated by what is happening in Iraq.

"They feel victimized in their own society; they feel victimized in the West. And they feel there's profiling against them," he said. "And the Iraqi situation has not helped matters." ]]

Okay... then back to discussing military operations in the area for a few paragraphs. Can you guess what comes next? Bet you can't...

[[ U.S. and Iraqi officials had hoped the new constitution, which goes to the voters in an Oct. 15 referendum, would help pacify the insurgency by luring Sunni Arabs away from it.

However, Sunni negotiators rejected the constitution and vowed to defeat it in the referendum. The bitter, protracted negotiations appeared to have raised tensions among Iraq's ethnic and religious communities. ]]

Wow. They are ON IT. They are using almost every one of the liberal talking points and anti-war arguments right here IN A "NEWS STORY"... The body count, the increase in terrorism, the united nations, the Iraqi constitution troubles... the only thing they left out was the secret "low morale" of our troops that every liberal just knows must exist.

Oh... wait...

[[ U.S. Marines operate around Qaim but have complained privately that they do not have enough American or Iraqi forces to secure the area properly. ]]

"Privately"... yeah... like kitty kelley's "unnamed sources"...

b r a v o... we must tip our hat to the master manipulaters at the AP. How could "normal" Americans reading this trash think anything BUT badly of our war effort?

If we all just start taking more time to actually see what these idiots are trying to feed us, then they will cease to be effective. Good Lord... how do they keep getting away with this?

Here's the whole, disgusting thing.

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