Reading Between The Lines To Find The Bottom Line

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Reading Between The Lines To Find The Bottom Line
by Danny Schechter | Apr 23 2007 -

Thank you Harry Reid for acknowledging what the world press has been saying for more than a year, maybe longer: The war is lost. Now we have the Sunday New York Times with a page one picture of an Iraqi being tortured, along with a story featuring claims by the US military that it is making headway. The story reports that its "successful interrogation" was enhanced by our Iraqi allies who the paper then reports was softened up by being beaten to a pulp with electrical chords.

That's what the war for Iraqi Freedom has come to. The US is now emulating the Israelis by building a wall to separate two neighborhoods in Baghdad. It's apartheid time in Mesopotamia. Any and all pretense to promoting freedom and human rights is off the agenda as a desperate Administration uses all necessary means - and not in the Malcolm X sense - to try to prevent the inevitable and secure as much of the oil that it can.

Even the media, try as it does to promote a "balanced" debate between the stay vs withdrawal factions in Congress, cannot sanitize this horror much longer. We have to read between the lines to reach the bottom line. Behind all of these reports is a deeper and bloodier narrative that often gets lost.

The problem is that the narrow media focus does not fill in the global dimensions of this war - the covert and not so covert war making in Africa, Afghanistan and so many other countries where US soldiers and mercenaries are stationed.

And that's only the beginning of the problem.

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