Renegade Blogger

Rumsfeld claims that Iraq is nowhere close to a civil war, and that the press is grossly exaggerating what’s going on in Iraq right now. Wait, what?! Rumsfeld isn’t alone, top generals are saying that things arnt going as bad as people think and that the situation simply isn’t as bad. In the Plain Dealer the other day they ran two articles, one contained the above mentioned general talking about things in Iraq and how they weren’t as bad as the public believes, and the other talked about how three Non Governmental Organizations were withdrawing from Iraq because it was too dangerous for them to stay. I’m confused. Which one is right? Are we to believe what our leaders are telling us, in that Iraq isn’t close to a civil war and that things arnt as bad as the liberal media makes them out to be. Or should we believe what we read in the newspaper, should we believe that things really arnt going as well as the Bush Admin would like you to think they are.

It seems like a growing trend that the Administration isn’t really playing it straight with the American public; the Downing Street memo revealed that there really were no weapons of mass destruction (seems we’ve got those at home), and now this whole business with the NSA, basically spying on Americans. That makes sense.

I did see a cartoon however that was poignant in its message. It showed the president holding a newspaper which read “terror strikes, 9/11” and then a bubble in which someone was saying “why didn’t you dig deep enough”. Then in the next frame the president held a newspaper, which read NSA turmoil, or something similar, with another bubble reading “why did you dig to much.” I guess it all depends on how many civil liberties you want.