Peculiar Timing or Coincidence?
Like an ace up the proverbial sleeve, the warmongers trot out a troika of sweeping confessions yesterday by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others, from which we are to infer that all the president’s men are making progress against the terrorists. Make no mistake, it’s juicy reading.
"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan,"
And the media is responding with expected Pavlovian zeal.
I can’t help wondering about the timing. That this would come forth from prisoners held and tortured for years by our compassionate nation is suspect. Exactly what the White House needs after weeks of hearing about Michael Reese Hospital and US Attorneys. Can we say "manipulating the news cycle?"
Am I getting (even more) jaded or are things really that obvious? Don’t answer that; it’s rhetorical.
March 16th, 2007 at 9:12 am
it may be peculiar timing, but if you really think about it, for the past 5 to 7 years there have been so many controversies involving the administration that this situation coming out at any time could be viewed as convenient.
Though it could also be said that each conflagration has elicited some sort of dousing response such as this one.