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

SSDD.

...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?

The truth and being truthful were very early victims with the pre-Iraq invasion ramp up. Since Shock and Awe there has been no shortage of reasons or Iraq "theme frames" that drift across the TV screens,local and big market paper media via the Bush/Cheney Office of Spin and the Pentagon's We Are Winning (going to win?)in Iraq Spin Weapon.

It would seem this shifting of "who" the Americans are killing in Iraq definition is just one more screen view being put out and sampled for spinracity and ratings/poll numbers outcome.

It surely must be getting more difficult to channel American troops scuttlebutt these days. The halo effect now pretty much gone from those heady 'Shock and Awe','Saddam in a Spidey Hole' and 'Bringing Democracy to Iraq' days.

Iraq has become a hard slog.

Like Vietnam.

There are no fronts,the GZ is divorced from much of the daily struggle in Iraq just like Saigon tended to be. There are several subsets of armed resistance,political motive and sect/tribal Iraqi fighters in a frontless conflict in strange cultural settings and fully blended opticals. The"bad guys" in Iraq don't have an official uniform and won't ever present the same "killable" targets like those of the Kuwait Oil War. No tanks to take out. No Iraqi Army trying to escape. No air bases and army bases to zero in on with full killpower.

The Iraqis the Americans fight today are not that "easy see" kind of fighters. Nothing to take the American War Machine Hammer and pound on. This is another dreaded "Viet Cong" kind of enemy. Emerge and blend back in being a central tenet with the Viet Cong. And now Iraq presents that same quandary.

The presence of al-Qaeda in Iraq was from the very early days onward a chimera of Bush/Cheney "lets invade Iraq and topple Saddam--The al-Qaeda Enabler/WMD Holder" spin and mis-direction.

That has not changed after four years now going on five years.

Again. Truth tell and fact based thinking were early victims of the Iraq War/Occupation. Still are.

An American version of Hitler's "eastern front" where wishful thinking and imagined fact and map read were the standards to which all other input/outgoing direction was often subject to.

So it must be easier for American generals to get up in front of troops either entering the Iraq Occupation the first time around or more importantly on the second,third or fourth "tour" to just define down the complexity of Iraq and go with Americas favorite brand of "known bad guys--OBL's Gang". With this war being fought in America very much everyday on TV/Inet and in/with American views taken,supported or discarded making it less complex(or less honest?) surely is a well considered factor as well.

As for the American press in Iraq one gets the impression that for them the GZ is Iraq. As far as they get or go in large part. They relay only what the USA allows them to see,hear or gather up. A dubious dependency indeed with this Bush/Cheney regime.

So is that route from the Baghdad airport to the GZ still not under firm security/control travel safety wise?

If the Americans have failed at imposing full control on that roadway still after over four years since Shock and Awe that is a very telling "eastern front" sort of Iraq fact.

Paul Street offers another viewpoint of the American MSM at the zmag.org/znet site under the June 22 entries. It is titled 'THE WASHINGTON MOB'. It is a worthwhile read and dovetails nicely with GG's take presented here.

Soooo predictable.

maybe if the Q is lowercase it just refers to a contigent of peoples in W's computer who stand against a dogma with a dogma. Who's data base? Who's defining it? If it's only the American media/public who are placing Iraqis in the database after death, does it only matter to the American public? I don't know about the organization or if that's what it is but I have heard that Al-Qaeda means "the data base" and that conjures up some sort of underground, highly-liquid, communication technology enhanced system. Like a Klu Klux Klan wink and a nod in real time across the web. I guess my point is should the translation be noted?

From the Eight Principles of Incompetence:

"Fourth Principle: Incompetence does or says anything to defend itself.

Because of the previous four principles (Zeroth Principle: Incompetence is driven by intellectual sloth; First Principle: Incompetence surrounds itself with incompetence; Second Principle: Incompetence is ethics-impaired; and Third Principle: Incompetence abhors transparency and accountability), incompetents never take responsibility for their wrongdoings, or those of other incompetents within their "circle". This is what I wrote before: "Incompetents will do and say anything to defend themselves and other incompetents, including disassembling, obfuscating, lying and blaming others". Here's something else that I also wrote previously: "They lie, they misrepresent, they use decoy arguments and make ad hominem attacks. For them, the use of duplicity, of secrecy, of arguments of (non-existent) conspiracy, of fact (and non-fact) selectivity/cherry-picking, of quacks/fake experts, as well as putting forth logical fallacies, are simply means to an end." For incompetents, everything is about spin and truthiness - never about facts and truth. Even when they are blatantly caught, incompetents continue to react and reason with their intellectual sloth-driven infantile/adolescent immaturity - they will deny that they did anything wrong or that they have lied, then they will blame/attack (read: character assassinate) their 'accusers'. I call this: 'Lie and Cry'".