More Bush vs Reality

So, where is all the good news from Iraq? Why isn't the MSM reporting all the positve stuff that the neocons so fervently believe in?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs killed dozens of people in Iraq on Monday, adding to pressure on rival factions in the country's new coalition government to agree on interior and defense ministers who can tackle the relentless violence.

A series of separate attacks claimed at least 47 lives, most of them in the capital Baghdad, police and other officials said.

In the bloodiest incident, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed 12 people, mostly students, in a Sunni Arab area of northern Baghdad, police said. A roadside bomb killed at least eight people in a Shi'ite area in the city's northwest.

Elsewhere, 11 people were killed when a bomb planted on a bus taking laborers to work went off in the town of Khalis in a volatile area 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

"What wrong had they done?" a middle-aged man said as he inspected the blood-stained bus. He declined to be named.

An Iranian exiled opposition group said the dead were employees traveling to its base in the area.

Noting Iran's foreign minister was in Baghdad last week, the People's Mujahideen Organization pointed the finger at Tehran and also blamed its Shi'ite Islamist allies running Iraq's new government. Iran sees the group as a terrorist organization.

Two British journalists working for U.S. television network CBS were among four people killed when a car bomb struck a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad.

American CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously wounded in the attack and six U.S. soldiers were also wounded, CBS and the U.S. military said in separate statements.

An unnamed soldier and an Iraqi civilian working with the military were killed along with the network's London-based cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and sound man James Brolan, 42.

And of course there are always stories like this:

Sunni Who Aided U.S. Gunned Down in Iraq

The good news just keeps demanding to be heard.

Bush vs Reality: There Is No War on Terror

SOB has been saying this for years and it is SO good to have one of his favorite blogs affirm his view:

After September 11, 2001, we’ve learned that we can take a punch and move on. We’ve faced far worse threats to our national survival in our history - the Civil War, the War of 1812, World War II to name a few - but we never abandoned our Constitution. Until now.

Terror is an emotion. Emotions are part of human nature and cannot be eradicated. A "War on Terror" is therefore a war on humanity. The Bush administration has exploited the fear and shock of a nation in the wake of a surprising and dramatic act of violence to whip national fear and paranoia into a constant boil. Why?

The evidence suggests the whole point has been to seize power and steal money. We are witnessing a creeping coup in the United States, the overthrow of the idea, promulgated by our founders and by writers like Tom Paine, that the "Law is King:".
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Ann Coulter and other right wing totalitarian cheerleaders like to talk about traitors to America. George Bush and the Republicans have betrayed America, the actual laws of America and the very idea of America. On Memorial Day, as we remember our sons and daughters who have sacrficed their lives in the blistering sands of Iraq, it does their memory due honor to point this out. Noble men and women fallen, their blood cries out for lawful justice.

In each of our minds lies the beginning of our return to freedom, so please, say it after me: "There is no ‘War on Terror.’"

It’s high time for America and Americans to remember our strength. We need not be afraid. When we surrender to fear, we lose our country, we lose our faith in each other, we lose our future and we lose our freedom. The best way to honor the sacrfices of our nation’s men and women killed in battle is to embrace, once again, that precious liberty.

It’s time to be America again.

Right. So whatever happened to the "land of the free, the home of the brave?" Bush keeps talking about how he has to keep us safe when his oath of office requires that he protect and defend the Constitution - not the public. We need to remind him of what his true obligations are. Americans have always been able to defend themselves - as long as their elected representatives were faithful to their own obligations.