Sadly, No! brings us a modified Kübler-Ross process, Iraq edition:
1. Denial: “The media doesn’t show the good news in Iraq.”
2. Anger: “The treasonous far-left-liberals and their media lapdogs are making us lose in Iraq.”
3. Bargaining: “If we send x-thousand more troops to Iraq, victory will be ours.”
4. Depression: “Did you catch 300 yet? [munch-munch-burp] God, it made me hate liberals even more. [channels flipping] They wouldn’t last a day in ancient Sparta.”
5. Advanced Literary Theory: “The hegemonic binary of ’success’ and ‘failure’ traumatizes the (re)interpretive possibilities of an ethos of jouissance regarding the War in Iraq.
Sad fact: At this very moment there is a cabal or Iranian generals discussing the possibility of invading Basra and cutting the US supply lines should the US mount an attack against Iran.
Sadder fact: At least one of the generals will be heard to opine ‘the Iraqis will greet us with flowers’.
Saddest fact: The general is almost certainly right. An Iranian invasion of Basra would almost certainly be applauded by the Iraqi people under those circumstances.
Very true tactics of the right. They blame the media for everything that goes wrong in Iraq.