CT Blue

Today’s headline reads: Iran to Blame in Ship Attacks. This is an assertion of fact. It is not borne out by the actual text of the Washington Post authored piece to which it is affixed. Since the Day is a newspaper, surely its editors are collectively aware of the fact that many people simply skim the headlines, or the first few paragraphs of an article. You do your readers and the nation a gross disservice by stating as fact something that is very much in doubt.

Many of us remember our history. We Remember the Maine!, which blew up of its own accord, an event which served as the pretext for war when American warmongers accused Spain of the deed. We remember Colin Powell lying to the United Nations about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, and the other lies the Bush Adminstration spread as a pretext for starting that needless war, including the assertion that Saddam somehow had something to do with the September 11th terrorist attack. We even remember recent history, though we know that’s against the rules of the punditocracy, and we are aware that the present administration is so mendacious it makes the Bush Administration seem like a model of probity. It is with that latter fact in mind that you might consider how to word a headline that accepts as fact the assertion of an administration which has now earned the right to have its every statement considered false until proven otherwise.

I have yet to see a coherent explanation of why this attack on third party shipping served Iran’s national interest. Why would Iran give a president it loathes, who is himself desperate to improve his dismal polling, a pretext for a war it would likely lose? Might it not be a good idea to consider other suspects, who might very much want to see their puppet re-elected and/or in a war with Iran? Just speculating, of course.

But I digress somewhat. Shame again on the Day for giving credence to the genius and his minions.

UPDATE: Check this out. If they had the goods on Iran they wouldn’t need to copy the Russians.