Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

The view concerning Iraq from Britain appears to be, according to a shrewd analysis in Prospect magazine, cheerio. To be sure, the analysis is somewhat old. “Mission Accomplished,” by Bartle Bull, appeared in the magazine in October, weeks before the New York Times acknowledged that that times in Iraq, they are a’changing -- for the better. The glad news in the Times appeared in its inner pages. We don’t want to frighten the kids now, do we, with the possibility that the surge in Iraq has succeeded ? Not all the American press was missing in action? For years, the New York Times, which long has appeared to neo-conservatives as a propaganda annex of the Democrat Party in retreat, had dwelt with feverish anxiety on the signal failures of President George Bush’s policy in the Middle East. If information were money, it would have been possible for any objective observer to warn the paper that it was too heavily invested in an American defeat. The tide in formerly unlivable hotspots in Ira...

Like this one . Iraqi group uses Michael Moore film to mock Bush Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:23 AM ET By Alister Bull BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents. "The Code of Silence" was posted on the Internet by the Rashedeen Army, thought to be a relatively small Sunni group which has produced videos in the past of attacks it claims to have carried out. At almost an hour in length, it is the longest and most professionally made of recent postings by mainly Sunni militant and insurgent groups fighting the U.S.-backed government. The U.S. military said earlier this week that recent intelligence indicated al Qaeda in Iraq was refining its strategy by producing propaganda and adding a political base to its violent campaign of suicide bombings. Lifting scenes from Michael Moore's anti-war film "Fahre...