MSM Blunder: Don't Be Surprised Later Because Bush Said It Already

The media bigwigs can’t always get it right. To do that, they’d have to be everywhere all the time, and, well, that’s just impossible. But boy did they miss a doozy (and they were there!) on Monday when President Bush took a trip over to the State Department and met with, essentially, his war cabinet.

The public comments after the meeting (transcript and video here), however, were so distinct in tone that listening to the President’s diction and delivery incites an overwhelming sense of déjà vu, meshing his speech Monday with the explanations in late 2002 and early 2003 for a war in Iraq.

Only now the target has changed.

Bush began by blaming Hezbollah solely for the surge of hostilities with Israel. This is hardly new, hardly a surprise. But then, without mincing words, the President extended that same responsilibity directly to Syria and Iran. He explained the conflict in Lebanon as “part of a broader struggle between freedom and terror that is unfolding across the region.”

If the declaration of an Axis of Evil was the first public step of the President’s global war plans and the invasion of Iraq the second, then this speech, however much it was pocketed in a State Department conference room, was the third. He laid out, without qualification the sacrifice to come and the “pivotal moment in history” in the Middle East.

The war will continue, and escalate, whether we watch closely or not. Syria and Iran are very much on the table.

(Photo from the White House.)

Comments

[Ravi]

We are all waiting with bated breath. Australia's own John Howard will blindly follow in Georgie's footsteps.

[Peter Eichenberger]

On this utterly transparent Israel led WWIII, all this has been hashed over a decade ago. The impetus was forged by the same basement boys up Dumbya's ass now. The rest is just a matter of bookkeeping. I wonder why this wasn't in the 'Times.
When will the US grow some stones and tell Israel to take a long walk off a short pier. What weenie balls. Puh-thet-ick.

http://zfacts.com/p/139.html

[typo]

Reading Eichenberger for meaningful news analysis is like watching SNL and expecting humor.

[peter eichenberger]

Whose this typo guy pawning himself off as me?
I can't figure whether the word that best describes you starts with an l or a p.
I do know the rest of it is spelled oser.
Slagging someone and signing their
name to it?
Look, I can make it all better, meet me at the Delaware Bridge. You can do yourelf. I won't even watch. You want a .38 or a nine?

[typo]

Deleware Bridge it is. Be there at 9. If I'm not there, start without me. No gun though. I tied a bungi to the railing. Really strong. Really.

[peter eichenberger]

I am not playing this game anymore. Last post. The ding dongs that set this shit up cannot get who sent what correct so there is no sense in continuing.

Typo, you are obviously a television junkie. Whadaya think this is, Deal or no Deal? Fuhgetaboutit. Ok, a bungie is fine, as long as you secure it around your skronky neck.

Look, save the drive. Go buy three bags of smack and a needle. Have some fun. Prices are way down now that the chimp faced wonder boy's narco-trafficing daddy is back in the saddle.
Peter Eichenberger

[typo]

peter - a patronizing little twitter of all things marxist who has been openminded for so long your brain have fallen out. Go ahead and use the bungi, for your hollow head will allow safe floating. bon voyage