Imagine, If You Will...

Now we all know that the Bushites have been on a campaign this week to make Iraq a presentational problem rather than a problem of their own making. Their take on things is that if the media were more "even handed" and reported the good news as well as the bad, we would all have a "more balanced view" on what is going on over there.

I'm going to print now a short report from Reuters on events yesterday in Iraq.

Authorities found 30 bodies, most of them beheaded, on the main road of a village near Baquba, just north of Baghdad. Police said many of the victims had also been shot.

Now I'm going to ask you, in your imagination, to transpose the location of that story to New York. Imagine that some type of gang warfare was resulting in 30 people turning up in Manhatten beheaded and shot.

Can you seriously accept the Bush regimes argument that this needn't be the lead story?

It's ludicrous. Proof, were any more proof needed, that they're simply playing shoot the messenger.