Lame Stream Media and the Case Of the Idiot Reporters

The Push Is On

Don’t you just love the New York Slimes? Talk about clueless. (If you don’t have a log-in account, the link won’t do you any good.)

Note the condescending terms and phrases such as “had yet again”, “so-called” and “reflected acknowledgment”. Too bad there are people that read this crap as if it was Gospel. I won’t bore you with the details of the entire anal excrement of this article. If you go there, bring some towelettes to clean up with afterwards.

With the influx of tens of thousands of additional combat troops into Iraq now complete, American forces have begun a wide offensive against Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia on the outskirts of Baghdad, the top American commander in Iraq said Saturday.

The commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, in a news conference in Baghdad along with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, said the operation was intended to take the fight to Al Qaeda’s hide-outs in order to cut down the group’s devastating campaign of car bombings.

The comments by General Petraeus were a signal that the United States military had yet again entered a new phase in Iraq, four months after the start of the so-called troop surge and a security plan focused on dampening sectarian violence within Baghdad. They reflected an acknowledgment that more has to be done beyond the city’s bounds to halt a relentless wave of insurgent attacks that have undercut attempts at political reconciliation.