So now you don't believe our brave troops fighting the good fight in harm's way are fighting Al Quaeda theat's just typical loonie liberal "thinking" for you OF COURSE there al Qauaeda over there!!! I guess you don't believe Al Qaeda had anything to do WITH 911 EITHER!!! ZWell let me "clue you in" there's 2 big smoking holes in New York that wouyld dis agree with you ABOUT THAT!!!

Every body knows that Al Qaeda want's to kill us all and there big dress rehersel is in iraq at this point in time and ythere just gettin ready for tyhe BIG INVASION of the U.S. A aand if you think that's kidding then I have a brige in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you ha ha ha.

So why don't you stop proactively working AGAINST YOUR OWN COUNTRY OR JUST GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM COMMIE!!!

This is a clash of the civilization and if you don't get that then you have NO RIGHT TO BE LIVING IBN A FREE OUNTRY!!! So shut up or ship out and dstop your whining! The teroorosts want us DEAD!!! Grow a brian and get a LIFE!!!

RealName:

To be fair though

AP refuses to call anyone a terrorist. Everyone's a militant or an activist. Shit I want to go to my homeowners association meeting with a grenade but that doesn't make me activist.

I had no idea it was so hard to be fair without being a liar!

Who knew?

Just googled "terrorist" and "Associated Press" (in Google News, no less) and got "about 7,100" hits. Naturally, one expects a portion of false positives. So, on to the quality control phase. First up was a press release, so I skipped that, and went to the first actual news story:

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070623/NATIONWORLD/706230486/-1/LOCAL17

June 23, 2007
17 al-Qaida troops die in U.S. purge

By Lauren Frayer
Associated Press

BAQOUBA, Iraq -- Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.

As the mission of 10,000 U.S. soldiers to take back the volatile and dangerous province intensified in its fourth day, so have concerns about keeping al-Qaida fighters on the run. The terrorist fighters and their allies already have been run out of Fallujah and Ramadi in Anbar province, only to regroup in Diyala's capital of Baqouba and nearby districts.

So, whaddaya know? First time out, and AP does not refuse to call anyone a terrorist!

I'm Shocked! Shocked! to find RealName spreading lies about AP.

It's the same old song: why let the facts get in the way? I'm sure he'll play it again, Sam before you can say "Rumplestiltskin."

I like the “two-fers” where you exemplify the administration’s mendacity of the last six years and MSM’s central role in enabling it. Unfortunately, I wish the examples weren’t so current, that at least the MSM would have become a bit more skeptical before spinning the administration's latest tales of success or important corners turned in Iraq.

When is the MSM’s position going to change from the default (and when are administration apologists going to quit trying to come up with some contorted rationalization) that the administration is telling it like it is and not trying to make this all about their so-called global war on terrorism - to simplify this costly, complicated quagmire down to a “Good vs. Evil” worldview, as Glenn so clearly describes? They have been spreading misinformation on Iraq and conflating it with Al Qaeda/terrorism since 9/11, and propaganda and censorship are about all they have left to prop up their extremism. That the MSM continues to abet the process is truly indicative of their collapse as a reliable, independent voice.

There are hundreds of different tribal alliances in this civil war, some of which probably reconfigure on weekly basis if not more frequently, and this arrogant, ham-handed administration whose Decider did not know Shia from Sunni before the invasion and who heretofore has shown no talent or taste for diplomacy thinks it can play this delicate military/political game to its ultimate advantage? Ri-i-i-ight!

Also, with all these different strains involved in the conflict, I always wondered how the dead fighters were so readily identified as Al Qaeda. Glad Larry Tepper was able to explain it to me in his comment above. I guess those that are identified as Al Qaeda leaders are the Platinum card members.

Finally, congratulations on your book, Glenn. As another good “two-fer,” I am pre-ordering it piggy-backed with Al Gore’s to save the freight charge, and can’t wait to read them.

Greenwald,

Again you lambast the MSM, rightly, for parroting administration spin. And again you commit exactly the same crime:

You write "...the people who hijacked those planes and flew them into our buildings: "Al Qaeda.""

Who hijacked the planes? We don't know that anyone hijacked any planes, as the only "evidence" is transcripts (yes, transcripts, not original recordings) of alleged cellphone conversations between passengers and various people on the ground. One reason that this "evidence" is suspect is that it cannot be demonstrated that cellphone conversations between passengers on fast-moving airplanes above 8,000 feet and the ground are actually possible. On 9/11 they were not even technically feasible. Another clue is that none of the "hijacked" aircraft crew managed to send out a distress signal (SOP), despite the advance notice they would have had if the accounts of hostage taking and knifings by the "hijackers" were true.

We don't even know if the "hijacked" planes were the same ones that hit the buildings since, in clear violation of law and SOP, there were no NTSB post-crash investigations. Contrast this with the painstaking reconstruction of flight 800 which crashed after takeoff into Long Island Sound.

You have swallowed a fake story and, for reasons of your own, refuse to examine the facts that contradict your preferred version of events. As I have said before, until you resolve this dichotomy you are no better than those you profess to despise.

Shame on you!