Silver Lining for the Bush Bashers?

The recent incident involving the Italian journalist who was allegedly injured by allied gunfire while escaping her terrorist captors reveals more about the leftist western press than it does about American foreign policy. The anti Bush press has been having a very bad time of late. What with the successful Iraqi election and the outbreak of democracy fever that has broken out all over the Middle East, and all this following hard on the heels of the Kerry/press coalition election defeat in November was almost too much for them to endure. They were looking for something, anything, to bash Bush about. Just about when they were about to get totally desperate, here comes Ms. Guiliana Sgrena to the rescue. Yes, the same America hating communist reporter who was in Iraq trying to get material to bash American with. What luck! The wicked American soldiers attack a peaceful Italian motorist. Of course, we all know the American love nothing better than killing innocent Italians tourists in Iraq! But that's what the world believes. They're quite prepared to believe virtually anything. Of course facts don't matter to them. The whole story doesn't pass the smell test.

It’s really hard to conceive of any so-called intelligence officer, Italian or not, who wouldn’t know that it is a very bad idea to go speeding up to a check point on the road to the airport in Iraq. Since one of the most favored tactics of the terrorists is to race a car full of explosives and homicide bombers near enough to our soldiers to do damage, it boggles the mind that this reporter and intelligence officer wouldn’t know that. So our guys fired on the speeding car and the rest is history. Presto! The press got what they wanted. A new political club to use against Bush.

How did it really happen? Nobody really knows yet. One thing you can bet the house on though. It didn’t happen the way CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and NBC are saying it happened. In fact, as with most things on those networks, if you believe just the opposite of what they’re saying, you’d be closer to the truth. Another thing to bet the house on is when all the facts come out, and it turns out the checkpoint troops did fire warning shots, –and were ignored, the lefties will drop the story like a hot potato.

Ever was it thus in today’s topsy-turvy world of so-called journalism.