Iraq is going great, it's the medias fault for only reporting the bad
Outrage level (scale of 1-10): 5

I engaged in a "conversation" with an acquaintance yesterday started by the fact that I said how disappointed I was that I was unable to attend the protests because I was working. When she said this regime is no different than any other, I said yes, but, this one is driving this country into the ground with the richie rich tax cuts and their fraudulent Iraq war, making their corruption worse than any other regime in my lifetime. That is when the "it's the medias fault" comment happened and I almost fell out of my chair. So in honor of that comment, I offer up this article:
War going badly according to GOVERNMENT reports

and this one:
More war going badly according to GOVERNMENT reports

and I could go on but you get the point.

I do agree that MOST politicians are corrupt, Democrat or Republican. What I disagree with is this administrations ability to get away with gross negligence because they are policing themselves. It is no different then when Nancy Pelosi made a motion to call for a 10 day investigation into the allegations against Foley and Boehner said nope, we are the majority and we think it should go to the ethics committee, which the GOP is also in control of. They voted and guess what, to the ethics black hole it goes.

This is not the first person to say that it is the medias fault to me. It is hard for me to believe that anyone can think that it is just the media telling us this is going badly. What about all of the casualties we have suffered? What about the 100,000+ Iraqi civilians that have been killed? What about the fact that we had to pass a bill killing Habeas Corpus because of this war? It has been around since the Magna Carta but because of this war and this administrations law breaking, it is gone so they can't be held accountable.

In an effort for every WASP who Karl Rove has convinced they are being persecuted against to take back their country, they took back the country from everything this country was founded on. Our phone conversations are being listened to in the name of 9/11. We, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, can and do torture people in the name of 9/11. We can now hold anyone for any reason as long as we define them as an enemy combatant without showing the evidence against them or letting them have a lawyer in the name of 9/11.

It is almost like Bush and company knew that 9/11 was going to happen and they let it anyway in order to push their fascist agenda on the American people. Yeah, almost like that.......