{"id":1311,"date":"2006-02-16T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2006-02-16T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T21:02:07","slug":"not-ready-for-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready for Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Crisis Group has put together a little profile of the Iraqi insurgency by harvesting information from “their Internet Web sites and chat rooms, videos, tapes, and leaflets<\/a>,” – which finds what others have been saying for some time – that the insurgency is mainly national, not foreign. The report claims that Sunni Arab and Sunni Islamic groups have recently overcome their differences to form a united front but not because they’ve been in negotiations with U.S. officials which are just nasty rumours<\/a>. And it seeks to affirm that the new Iraqi govt. will collapse if the U.S. withdraws its troops from its shiny<\/a> new bases<\/a> and restores Iraqi sovereignty. ABC News aired the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“A new editorial feature of The Hill newspaper”<\/p>\n

ICG’s report seems as credible as a political ad I was invited to view and rate yesterday. I doubt that Hugo Gurdon, Editor in chief of The Hill<\/em>, and Chris Wilson, CEO, Wilson Research Strategies<\/a>, will test my gag reflex again. It’s made clear, only after beginning the survey, they’re only interested in the opinions of people who work in fields related to politics. I was allowed to view and rate the ad<\/a> anyway. <\/p>\n

I then went to Progress for America<\/a>, the “nonprofit corporation” that paid for the ad, and found “that everyone is talking about” it. News to me. And I watched their latest ad in what they’re calling the “MidWest Heroes” initiative. PFA claims to be a “Republican-leaning,” non-partisan supporter of conservative agendas. That statement is as truthful as the ads.<\/p>\n

The conservatives want to fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here!<\/p>\n

The liberals want to fight a smarter war. <\/p>\n

This is a rerun of the 2004 presidential race. Neither party cared<\/a> about what Iraqis wanted<\/a> then<\/a>, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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