The underlying goal of undermining America

Dr. Sanity:

This is extremely disturbing: even worse than the Rathergate debacle or the other trumped-up charges by leftist liars in the service of their anti-Bush, anti-American, anti-military; anti-capitalistic agenda. Here is the link to Sweetness and Light, who is looking into this, and who posts a series of corrections now being run by Time Magazine about the original story.

It seems they got a few of their facts wrong, and "regret the error(s)". I'll bet they do. It makes any reasonable person wonder about the veracity of the original story's claims.

In other words, is this just another "fake, but accurate" media event, designed to manipulate people into the "correct" mindset about the U.S. military? We all know that the left wants us to believe that our military are no better--and even much worse-- than the terrorists we fight.

I have withheld judgment about Haditha while all the facts were investigated, because in this country we hold people innocent until proven guilty; and NOT innocent until accused. I will withhold final judgment about this; but my psychiatric instincts are tingling--primarily because the same kind of projection and paranoia that motivated the principals in the TANG memo case; in the Plame case; and in the dozens of other hyperbolic and histrionic news articles since; could very well be behind this one.

They all have the same underlying goal: to undermine America.

There is no question that the more despicable members of the left would willingly lie, distort, and manipulate to further their totalitarian agenda. We have seen this kind of manipulation by the press in their coverage of the Palestinians, who are regularly given a pass by the gullible leftist newsmedia when they stage the news; and whose suicide bombings that deliberately murder innocents are given moral equivalence to Israel's targeting of specific terrorists.

Let's face the truth. By and large, the News media desperately want Bush to fail; they want the military to fail-- in Iraq and everywhere; and they desperately want America to be brought to its knees.

And, when I talk about projection and paranoia--here is perfect example of how the left dismisses anything (even the implications of the "regrettable" Time errors) in their rush to assuming the worse.

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There is much more. Those who are desperate to lose the war in Iraq want to do so because they reject the use of force in almost every situation. They fear that success in Iraq will make the US inclined to use force in the future and they would rather see the US lose than have that happen. How else can you explain a war where we have had relatively few casualties and the enemy has not won a battle is perceived as lost by so many people? It is such an ridiculous proposition that its proponents reject reasoned argument and instead promote "unassailable props" like Cindy Sheehan as their spokesman.