Chris Matthews proves every day in every way that the left is biased far left, and is willing to sabotage a war that America is fighting for partisan political gain.

The “tag-line” of “Can Congress Stop White House Plans?” proves this point.

The disinformation by the press is so complete and so absolute that the vast majority of American simply do not understand what is actually happening and what is at stake in the war in Iraq. It is utterly impossible to engage people and have a civil discussion about the war in Iraq because “everybody knows” that Iraq is a disaster, that we’ve lost the war, blah, blah, blah.

This is what the American people are NOT BEING TOLD about Iraq:

The fact that more than 90 percent of the violence that dominates reporting from Iraq takes place in five neighborhoods in Baghdad, plus one of the 18 Iraqi provinces, is neither here nor there. The perception is that all of Iraq is lost. [Amir Taheri, IRAQ: WHY THE MEDIA MISSTEP]

Why isn’t America being told these facts? Why is the perception that ALL of Iraq is violent, that the almost all the killing of Americans and innocent Iraqis is throughout the country instead of within specific neighborhoods of Baghdad and one province (Anbar)?

Taheri blames, or rather excuses, the inability to tell the true story to the lack of reporters on the ground, unfamiliarity with Arabic and local custom, corrupt “translators” and stringers, etc., and the UNWILLINGNESS of reporters to embed with US troops.

I disagree. I agree with UPI’s Pam Hess who notes that the media doesn’t care one iota if America loses. They don’t WANT to tell the true story because it interferes with achieving their agenda — the utter disgrace of the Bush presidency. As Hess notes, they don’t care what the national security implications of losing Iraq are.

Here are things that Taheri says Americans don’t know, because our media WON’T TELL THEM:

Last month, Iraq received the U.N.’s special environmental prize for reviving parts of the marshes drained by Saddam, thus saving one of the world’s most precious ecological treasures. Almost no one in the media noticed.

Also last month, the Iraqi soccer squad reached the finals of the Asian Games – beating out Japan, China, South Korea and Iran. Again, few in the West noticed.

In 2006, almost 200 major reconstruction projects were officially completed and 4,000 new private companies registered in Iraq. But few seem interested in the return of private capitalism after nearly 50 years of Soviet-style control.

Iraq’s new political life is either ignored or dismissed as irrelevant. The creation of political parties (some emerging from decades of clandestine life), the work of Iraq’s parliament, the fact that it is almost the only Arab country where people are free to discuss politics to their hearts’ content – these are of no interest to those determined to see Iraq as a disaster, as proof that toppling Saddam was a modern version of the original sin.

Iraq may still become any of those things – but right now it is none of them. When the real history of the Iraq war is written, posterity might marvel at the way modern media were used to manufacture that original sin. [Ibid.]

Someday, I hope that the traitor-class MSM gets their “just reward” of permanent disgrace, or better yet, imprisonment (or death as provided by law), for their treasonous behavior. I’ll personally upgrade to premium cable AND pay-per-view to watch Matthews go to the gallows.

georgej on January 15, 2007 at 4:59 PM