Winning in Iraq

Today even readers of the New York Times will have trouble believing that Iraq is a disaster and a quagmire, though not for lack of effort by the LSM.  The Times has the AP report on Iraq, Iraqi Lawmakers to Vote on Change in Draft Constitution, and it is amazing in its obviousness:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide bomber killed 30 Iraqis at an army recruiting center Wednesday and lawmakers rushed back to Baghdad for a special session of parliament to vote on a last-minute compromise to gain Sunni support on the draft constitution.

In fact, a suicide bomber killing Iraqis has almost nothing to do with the successful transition of Iraq to a functioning democracy.  Terrorists can kill people by attacking soft targets, and can, with decreasing frequency, kill people at more "hardened" targets when they get lucky.  This is tragic but irrelevant to the main news of the day, which is that 3 days before the referendum on the Constitution, the Iraqis have worked out a formula to increase the involvement of the Sunni minority in the democratic process.  To better understand the full import of this, in conjunction with the recently intercepted letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi which details the strategy of al Qaeda (which depends on using the media to convince Americans to abandon the Iraqis) and their mounting difficulties and losses, don't bother with the likes of the New York Times (which wonders why their circulation is dropping) but go to The Fourth Rail and read what Bill Roggio has to say.

The press continues to distort the news in increasingly obvious ways.  It is becoming harder and harder to avoid the recognition that they are not merely biased, but are actively on the other side.  The PC mindset which infects news rooms consistently mis-identifies the enemy.  The enemy to peace and freedom in the world are totalitarian, expansionist, Islamic fascists, not George Bush, who despite paranoid fears to the contrary is not preparing to abrogate the U.S. Constitution and seize power.  Sorry, paranoids, but he will be heading back to Texas in 3 years and you will have to find some other Republican with whom to scare yourself.

I am currently preparing a post on the tendency of the liberal elites, under the sway of PC-thought, to mis-identify the enemy on a more prosaic scale (though with potentially tragic consequences) which I plan to post later today.  The evil of Political Correctness reminds me of the beautiful, blue-spotted octopus, whose victims often die of the deadly neurotoxin without even knowing they have been bitten.