The Foolishness of ABC News

From ABC News website today:

"March 6, 2005 The Iraqi elections, imperfect as they were, convinced some American leaders that the Iraqi people had reached a point of no return quite literally turning a corner in the direction of democracy."

As I have said before, you turn a lot of corners when you are wondering around lost in a maze. The rest of the article, based on a Nightline report by Koppel and Bury, goes on to quote Americans on how we could, maybe, might, have reached a "tipping point" in Iraq (due to the recent elections) that will prompt Iraq to become democratic and pluralistic.

As is the OVERWHELMING rule in American "journalism" the entire (yes ENTIRE) article is composed of quoting so-called experts in America, none of whom have spent much time in Iraq. And, as usual, they interview NOT ONE IRAQI.

Yes, in America, the theme "IT'S ALL ABOUT ME, ME, ME!!!" is alive and well.

And so is fantasy land, both in American right-wing corporate media and in "some American leaders" brains.

God help the poor Iraqi people, and everyone else in the Middle East, as the Bush administration pursues it's policy of Middle East Peace via war, war, and more war.

I'm feeling frantic. I'm feeling yet again (as in late 2002 and early 2003) that we will not be able to stop these upcoming wars. I guess the tipping point has already been passed, and that means 100's of thousands, maybe millions, of innocent dead people...... at the hands of American aggression and American incompetence.

I feel sick.