Pay no attention to the exploding cars and rocket attacks...
Once again, despite an ever-rising death toll for our forgotten soldiers, daily car bombs that kill Iraqis and internationals, and increasingly-sophisticated attacks on larger targets, the Bush administration is feeding us that same line: "the media is distorting the facts...things are FINE in Iraq."

Well, ignoring all the dead people--as the Bush administration seems to enjoy doing--this spin is actually correct in a way. At least for the current administration and their "war on terror (and the US constitution)". From their perspective, the past two weeks have been an increadible success. First, there was a major terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia that (praise Jesus!) killed only Arabs and Muslims (two terms the administration and media would have you believe are synonymous). Then terrorists began targeting another Muslim country in Turkey, killing more innocent people.
While a few people are correctly pointing out that these attacks are more evidence that we are all LESS safe than we were before Bush-Chenney-Rove-Ashcroft-Rummy's war on Islam began, most of the buzz coming across the airwaves is parroting the administration's spin: this is more evidence that we have to continue our war. Sane people need only look at Israel to see where this eye-for-an-eye, kill-your-enemy mentality will get us.

The more Muslims the US kills, the more anti-US terrorists it creates. But as long as the retaliation is carried out on second-hand US sites in OTHER countries--and as long as their fat-cat buddies are getting rich of Iraqi oil and Iraqi-and-American blood--Bush and Chenney can smile and gloat their goofy fratboy (Bush) and evil-overlord (Chenney) smirks.

And finally, there were the two events that have nothing to do with the "war on terror", but will probably help Bush most of all, simply because the average yutz's attention is only as long as the TV tells it to be: the massive photo-op of Bush dressing up in his monkey-suit and playing "Tea-party" with the queen, and the Micheal Jackson media cirkus that has only barely begun. Both of these "stories" are sucking up media attention (and the Jackson saga could continue for years) and diverting Americans' attention away from the fact that more and more of our soldiers are dying each day, and more and more people around the world hate and want to kill us.