Troop surge in Iraq

[Bill Peckham]

I'm sure many things are confusing when you have a superficial world view.

The information is there for anyone who cares to know it - OBL is working from a known play book. Too bad in the current administration watching 24 counts as research.

[Black]

Black I think you're discounting the Wahabi's sense of religious purity. I just finished "God's Terrorists" by Raj historian Charles Allen; his book follows the Wahabi cult in British India 1800-1853.

Osama is reading from the play book Allen outlines. Even religious nut cases have their "rules".

Yes, that should be interesting reading, but there have been many changes since 1853 - as previously mentioned, like the purity of the 9/11 terrorists.

Watch for the reports tomorrow on the contents of declassified material released today which contains Osama's instructions to "The Iraqi".  It is likely that it contains information on missions "The Iraqi" is to carry out against the US outside of Iraq.  Apparently proof of orders directly from Osama to someone in Iraq for attacks outside of Iraq.  Something many liberals have claimed never happened.  I look forward to learning the details.

[Bill Peckham]

Interesting http://www.journalism.org/node/5719

So if the reporting of the entire US news media met the approval of this administration's supporters ... followed Fox News ... we'd just hear a lot less about our activities abroad.

It is hard for me to swallow the implication of the "liberal media is sabotaging the war against terror" meme. Accountability improves results - it's true at my job and it is true in the White House. George Bush was poorly served by the Republican Congress and a more skeptical media could of helped him make better decisions if he had stuck to strategies that were intellectually defensible. Strategies that they were willing to discuss in public.