Damn, I didn't know Quaeda had so many fighters in Iraq!

[txprog]

but that's what they keep telling me on the teevee and in the NY Times and Washington Post. Must be something new, because until just a little while ago, they called them insurgents or something like that. I guess they were right after all. We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here.

[niyad]

1. I didn't know al-qaeda had so many fighters, period!!

[MNDemNY]

2. Well, if they aren't "one of ours" and they are dead, they're Quaeda.

[KG]

3. another whiff of desperation.

as it appears more and more that the 'war' is lost, bigger the lies will be...

[BlooInBloo]

4. Time for another episode of What Digby Says....

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/definitions-by-tristero-liberals-theyre.html

And that is what's behind the latest media policy, which finesses all unnecessary liberal distinctions without a real difference. As Glenn Greenwald correctly notes, this simplifies...no, clarifies the situation for maximum comprehension by an American audience:

...anyone we fight is automatically designated "Al Qaeda"

However, Greenwald's definition still isn't broad enough, in my opinion. Back in '02 or '03, Glenn Reynolds averred that those who opposed the Iraq war from the start were "ojectively pro-Saddam." Today, all we need to do is to generalize Reynolds' important principle. Then, we apply it to the media's commendable effort to tell the story of the GWOT straight, no chaser, ie, in the simplest clearest terms possible. Therefore:

To oppose Bush's "surge" means you objectively support al Qaeda's efforts in Iraq.

Even clearer:

To oppose the Bush surge essentially means you're a member of al Qaeda.

And for purists who want the clearest possible message, just eliminate "essentially."

[Babsbrain]

5. Al-Queda = Bushit Hater

I must be one

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Oh, come on now! Those are the previously missing WMDs!!!

*wink*

[txprog]

9. No, the real WMD................

SH himself. They got 'em too.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Amazing isn't it?. Snuck in right under our noses.

Now if you are a dead Iraqi you are Al Quaeda.

[cosmicdot]

8. seems all of corporate media got the memo

Iraqi citizens became "insurgents", now morph into al-Qaeda/al-Qaida/al-CIA-da


Glenn Glenwald documents some examples in:

Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/23/al_qaeda/index.html


Al-Qaida looming large in Gaza, too

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_al_qaida


never hear much about that Osama bin Forgotten fellow

[Lastgasp]

10. Thanks for this great post . . . n/t

[TahitiNut]

11. But we're counting on Iraqi Armed Forces to save us.

"We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here."

Since Cheney/Bush say we'll leave when Iraqis "stand up" that must mean the Iraqis will keep Al-Qaida from following us 'home.' Ain't that amazing? The weakest military on the planet is gonna protect Amerika from them Al-Qaida!! Cheney/Bush said so!!