Nir Rosen's Iraq report. Gordon's back to warmongering
By John Amato Tuesday May 06, 2008 7:02pm
Rosen explains what's happened in Iraq after just getting back. He's an excellent journalist and explains that the violence is down in Iraq because there are less people to kill. He tells us all about al-Sadr's reasons for his cease fire and the al-Qaeda/Sunni/Shia relationships...The Sunnis consider all Shia's-- Iranian and they are not going to hang with Iran under any circumstance. They only fought a brutal decade long war against them and ot think that he Iraqi people would willingly partner up with Iran is pretty far fetched.
I grabbed this video off of Glenn Greenwald's excellent piece that calls into question the NY Times reporter Michael Gordon's warmongering work once again. Taking notes from government officials to pass on in his columns to the American public is disingenuous and destructive, but he knows this. He's the type of reporter that fits well in the "War Made Easy"film narrative that Normon Solomon made.
Like clockwork, the administration's most stalwart surge supporter/journalist -- the New York Times' Michael Gordon -- has a lengthy article today bolstering the administration's war-justifying accusations against Iran.
As usual with Gordon's articles, nothing is done here other than uncritically repeating Bush administration claims under the cover of anonymity. Virtually every paragraph in this article is nothing more a mindless recitation of uncorroborated assertions which he copies from Bush officials and then weaves into a news narrative, with the phrase "American officials say" tacked on at the end or the phrase "according to officials" unobtrusively interspersed in the middle, as in:...read on
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Rosen explains what’s happened in Iraq after just getting back. He’s an excellent journalist and explains that the violence is down in Iraq because there are
lessfewer people to kill.Sorry, pet peeve...
/Rotsky
Great piece (video) and the Glenn Greenwald piece is outstanding.
Thanks John for posting both of these together, it gives the needed perspective.
The war on Iran has been planned for more than two decades. The neocons started this planning long ago. Our government has been usurped by these people who want to rule the world. They have almost all of the Corporate Media (CM) in their pocket.
There is no Us in UsA.
Read the history of the lies and the neocons rise. And Bush's Executive orders giving him unimagined power.
When are our elected officials going to stand up to these criminals?
The new assessment moves up Israel's forecasts on Teheran's nuclear program by almost a full year - from 2009 to the end of 2008. According to the new timeline, Iran could have a nuclear weapon by the middle of next year.
After the Judy Miller debacle the NYT lost most of its credibility to me. Gordon is just Judy Miller 2008. With Scooter gone I wonder who is passing him his talking points.
Sluggirl- thank you. I have the same peeve.
MsJoanne @ 3:
never!!!!!!!!!!!!
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
Well, we'd have to start our new neocon war based on spurious intelligence and one of Douglas Feith's wet dreams before Obama got into office, wouldn't we?
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
Well, we'd have to start our new neocon war based on spurious intelligence and one of Douglas Feith's night time dreams before Obama takes office, wouldn't we?
I tried posting a moment ago using the word 'wet' and it didn't allow me to. Prudish filter.
Gordon is a scumbag.He and Judy Miller were unreal stenographers pre-Iraq.
What circle of Dante`s Hell do you thimnk he will be in?
Laure @ 7:
This is going to put Obama on the spot now also. He'll need to start saying, "damn right I'll nuke Iran" soon if he wants to have a chance to get the nod.
L.A. Confidential @ 10:
he allready did !you just have to weed thru the way he dances around saying it
Nir Rosen is one of the best independent journalists reporting about the situation in Iraq, together with Dahr Jamail, Patrick Cockburn, and Robert Fisk. Unfortunately, all these scribes are receiving far less attention than a Michael Gordon or a Thomas Friedman, whose writings have proved to be less than prescient and accurate than someone like a Nir Rosen and the other writers that I have mentioned.
tyree @ 11:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=__jVRnmmHJs
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
sorry bolton makes me want to puke couldnt make it thru his asshat propaganda
Too bad this very succinct analysis was not the one congress heard instead of Petraeus.
“American officials say” tacked on at the end or the phrase ..."
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This is an old trick, obviously lifted from such greats as, "Weekly World News", wherein they generally use phrases like, "Say spies," or, "People say." It lends a certain credibiltiy to their stories about "Bat Boy" showing up at the local mall, and terrorizng the bejeezuz out of otherwise happy shoppers.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that the Judy Miller false and fabricated articles from the New York Times were co-written by Judy Miller and Michael Gordan. Michael Gordan is ugly too. How soon everyone forgets.
dale18 @ 17:
no one forgot
Oh, I most certainly didn't forget about Ms. Miller. I once though highly of her.
Silly, stupid me.
The question is not whether all this BS is neocon wet dream war mongering, but will we as a people allow this self destructive behavior by the country we love
I'm sorry but the notion that all Sunni's see all Shia's as Iranian is simply untrue and insulting to Iraqi's. Are there a select few that do see Sadr and other Shias as Iranian agents? sure- but not the majority. Most of them see each other as family(because they ARE- many Sunni and Shia are blood related- the seperations didn't really occur until after the invasion).
Many Iraqi's know what the war between Iraq-and Iran was- it was Saddam's war, and Iraq had invaded Iran. The idea that they wouldn't partner up with Iran is not that farfetched at all- but its not that they want Iran to influence their government- but that they do not see them as hostile as the United States does- and definitely more beneficial.
The US has done more and continues to do more to support a Sunni/Shia type clash than anyone else, its beneficial for our government to divide Iraq into pieces. Beacuse if the Iraqi's were to unite- they would've driven the US out right away.
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