« A Bad Plan for Indiana | Main | I want my...ah, screw it. »

January 04, 2005

I know that bemoaning the state of affairs in Iraq is soooooo pre-11/2, but I thought I'd link to New York Times's coverage of the asssassination of the governor of Baghdad anyway. Actually, there's more there than the description of how one of the highest-ranking members of the transitional government was killed. If the Times were like McSweeney's and decided to do its stories in Fifties horror-movie style, the article would have sounded something like this:

• See Iraqi policemen killed by bombs hidden in headless corpses!
  
• Gasp as Iraq's interim president says the UN should say whether elections should be held or not!
• Cringe as inter-ethnic trust crumbles!
  
• Wince as you calculate the cost in blood, treasure and tears of the war to date!

I haven't really been paying attention to the progress of the war--it has joined the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Congolese situation on my list of "areas where all the news is bad news"--so I don't know if conservatives are still supposed to be repeating the meme that the media is hiding all of the good things that are happening there. So all I can offer you is my honest take on things.

Posted by Paul Musgrave at January 4, 2005 02:34 PM

Comments

Posted by: j.scott barnard at January 4, 2005 05:20 PM | permalink

Posted by: Bill at January 4, 2005 10:37 PM | permalink