Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Emotional Poison


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The last Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi on Sunday, as the city fell completely to the militants of the Islamic State, who ransacked the provincial military headquarters, seizing a large store of weapons, and killed people loyal to the government, according to security officials and tribal leaders. (New York Times, 5/18/2015)

Not mentioned in this article - not even once - was the name "President Obama." The same Obama who called ISIS the JV team. The same Obama whose policies in Iraq have led to the squandering of hard fought military gains, turning them into losses. 

Meanwhile, the Liberal Media will never stop writing stories about George Bush and "Mission Accomplished." And people like "John" writing in the Comments section of the New York Times will tell us that the fall of Ramadi was Bush's fault...somehow. Why Bush has been out of office for, what is it now, at least a year.

As the Wall Street Journal reminds us (5/19/2015):
("The Democratic left" is) now trying to change the subject back to Iraq circa 2003 and away from the current, rampant disorder there that reflects poorly on the current President and implicates his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. For the record, none of the individuals running for the Republican presidential nomination cast a vote on the Iraq war. Hillary Clinton, then Senator from New York, did—in favor of the war....


New York Times Political News Coverage Today, May 19, 2015
Name Recognition Is Not the Problem for Clinton
5 Things You Might Not Know About Hillary Clinton
Clinton Says Citizens United Would Guide Her Supreme Court Picks
Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
State Department Proposes January Release of Hillary Clinton 

And then this:

Road to 2016: Can Republicans Avoid the Romney Tax Trap?

What Liberal Media bias? What Liberal Media bias!


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