Daily Kos: The NY Times: Helping The White House Spin

by BarbinMD
Sat Aug 12, 2006 at 08:16:03 AM PDT

Iraq is in the midst of a Civil War. I know it, you know and the 6000 Iraqi civilians who have been shot, tortured or blown up in the past couple of months probably knew it too. It seems that the only people in denial over this obvious truth is the Bush administration and their acolytes. And today the New York Times decided, in the guise of a news story, to aid and abet the administration fantasy that all of the chaos and violence in Iraq is being orchestrated from Iran. The article begins:

Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces...The Iranian incitement has led to a surge in mortar and rocket attacks on the fortified Green Zone...The splinter groups have ties to Iran...There is evidence that Iran is pushing for more attacks...

It's not until the sixth paragraph that we are given the evidence backing up these claims:

...he acknowledged that there was no proof that Iran was directing any particular operations by militias here.

Pretty damning, eh?