...that when the "Quaida" label fizzles, the Admin. will simply, and unashamedly name them what every one of the 30% dead-enders calls "them" anyway, which is,

"Rag-Heads"

Any takers?

SSDD.

Everyone we kill have been "al-Qaida" for more than the last 10-12 days.

Unable to make any connection between 9/11 and Iraq the administration has put "al-Qaida" labels on Iraqi causalities using the logic if A=B and B=C than A=C. Where A="al-Qaida" and B=9/11 and Iraqi causalities labeled as "al-Qaida" proves an Iraq connection to 9/11

I recently noticed this odd new rhetorical twist in the Iraqi news as well. Of course, Al Qaeda always lurked on the rhetorical radar screen, but now it’s suddenly the marketing mantra of the season.

Here's another take:

http://journals.aol.com/bmiller224/OldHickorysWeblog/#Entry4790

Mr. Greenwald does his typically meticulous job detailing and debunking this steaming load of horse pucky, but the mind-boggling thing is this: why in the world should this even be necessary at this late date?

Designating everyone in Iraq who the U.S. attacks as an Al Qaeda fighter is ludicrous, and this sort of cheesy propaganda is as obvious as a gargantuan toad growing out of one’s nose.

And yet, despite the years of repeating nonsense, disinformation, and lies, the corporate press—and Gordon is the poster child for the journalist as hooker school of stenography—the drumbeat goes on. These people truly are “stenographers with amnesia”.

Years ago when Pravda functioned as the informational arm of the Soviet Communist Party, they were mocked in the “West” as paragons of intellectual turpitude without a shred of journalistic integrity.

Perhaps our opinion of Pravda deserves some historical rehabilitation in light of the performance of the contemporary U.S “mainstream” press? Do the old comrades at Pravda and Izvestia really come off that badly when splayed out cheek by jowl with the brave luminaries at the Post and NY Time? And no need to dredge up the hokum dribbling out of the Washington Times and Fox “News”, an embarrassment surely for even the most servile apparatchiks of the old Soviet media.

If the Rovians and Pentagon shills suddenly designated the insurgency in Iraq as led by agents of Al Qaeda on Mars, does anyone doubt that the corporate Dictaphones would earnestly lip-synch it and shout it out? Journalism? This is strictly kabuki harnessed to karaoke.

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil..."

G Orwell

A couple of things recommended by Instapundit on Saturday morning.
http://amazon.com/gp/product/0307338266

War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror (Hardcover)
by Robert "Buzz" Patterson
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http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/06/one_week_of_operatio.php

An update on the Battle of Iraq

Operation Phantom Thunder, the corps coordinated operation across three theaters in the Baghdad Belts, has completed its seventh day. Ground forces commander Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno gave a briefing on the operation. To date, Coalition and Iraqi forces have killed 159 al Qaeda fighters [ . . . ]

Operation Arrowhead Ripper, the campaign in the Diyala theater, remains the hottest of the three. [ . . . ] "At least 55 al-Qaida operatives have been killed, [ . . . ] " Upwards of 1,000 al Qaeda fighters are thought to be holed up in the western half of the city.

Al Qaeda prepared for the assault on Baqubah. [ . . . ] General Odierno visited the city and stated most of al Qaeda's senior leadership has fled [ . . . ] “We believe 80 percent of the upper level [al-Qaida] leaders fled, but we’ll find them.” said General Odierno [ . . . ]

- - By Bill Roggio on June 22, 2007 9:38 PM

Uh oh! General Odierno left out the "al Qaida" in one sentence! Luckily, the reporter put the "al Qaida" back in, for clarification.

And the Battle of Iraq (the REAL battle, the no-more-kidding-around-this-time-we-are-serious-and-we-really-mean-it battle) is only eight days old.

And what about those so-called "liberals" (who aren't even liberal and open-minded enough to give war a chance!)?

After only eight days of the REAL Battle of Iraq, those so-called liberals want to destroy our military and want to lose the war against the 9/11 terrorists.

and lies about everything. Even when they're telling the truth, which is very rarely.

All of a sudden, all "enemy" (which is to say, opposition of any kind, armed or not) in Iraq became "al-Qaeda", and they became "al-Qaeda" so they could be killed with impunity in the various operations under way, most particularly the one in Baqouba, where the Native population has been cordoned off and told to stay in their houses while the place (including their houses) is reduced to rubble and "al-Qaeda" is exterminated. Except that, apparently, the "al-Qaeda" fighters have run away. The way they do. And what of the civilian population? Oh well, just call them "al-Qaeda" and have at them.

Worked in Vietnam -- where the civilians were called NVA and Viet Cong (sympathizers) -- it should work in Iraq-nam. Shouldn't it?

This Petraeus fellow... not all that bright, is he?

And Odierno, what's with him? He seems to be the one who issued the order that henceforth all opposition was to be called "al-Qaeda". Or was it Cheney?

But the whole point, as always, is to be able to kill and destroy with no questions asked, no regrets.

That always teaches the Wogs.

Sigh.

Well, it's not like it was true the first time either. Sadly, I believed it even less the first time. (ie. less then, more now)

bah.

This is an indication that there has quietly been a strategy shift away from a "hearts and minds" approach and toward a "let them hate us so long as they fear us" approach. -- C2H5OH

There has never been a "hearts and minds" strategy in Iraq. There's been occasional talk about it, but no action apart from some badly painted schools and sewage flowing through clinics. From the get it has been about hate and fear and slaughter and destruction and little else.

But yes, the AQ designation is intended to silence critics of the exponential increases in civilian casualties.