Things Are Different In Iraq

December 1, 2006

In the (to some, good) old days in Iraq, the government produced the lies and propaganda. Today, the press and the Islamo-fascists have taken over that job. One sure sign of a change in the government and their attitude toward disagreement and dissent is in the blog entry at Michelle Malkin: Rumors and reporting in Iraq.
Quoting the Ministry of Interior spokesman:

After the monitoring process, we will contact those TV stations by
presenting them with the mistakes and errors they committed by
broadcasting such false news, hoping they will correct these false
reports on their main news programs. But if they do not change those
lying, false stories, then we will seek legal action against them.
I wonder if Saddam Hussein would have simply “taken legal action” against the press if they’d written lies about him. But wait, they did write lies about him - the kind he demanded at the price of their lives! Here, by contrast is what Eason Jordan wrote:
After all, secret police thugs brutalized even senior officials of the
Information Ministry, just to keep them in line (one such official has
long been missing all his fingernails).
I can see now why the press write such bald faced whoppers about the coalition forces, the US government and the Iraqi government. They’ve wanted to all along, but had been terrified to do so under Saddam.

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