Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Bush-Obama Doctrine
" The Iraqi military put local journalists on notice on Monday that their organizations could be shut down for misquoting officials, while the Iraqi government accused the news media of deliberately seeking to promote sectarian strife. The top military spokesman in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, said he was filing a lawsuit seeking to close the Baghdad office of Al Hayat, one of the most prominent newspapers in the Arab world, as well as the satellite signal of Al Sharqiya, a popular Iraqi television channel that has been a strong critic of the government. The lawsuit was announced on the Web site of the Baghdad Operations Command, which coordinates Iraqi security forces in the capital." Only ignorant reporters of the New York Times would refer to the newspaper of Prince Khalid bin Sultan "the most prominent newspaper" in the Arab world. This is like calling Prince Sultan "the most respected Arab."