While listening to Jay Carney, the white house Press Secretary, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Baghdad Bob.
That was the name pinned on Saddam’s official Press Minister.
Baghdad Bob sat before a TV camera back in the early days of the war and told his people that there were no members of the United States military within 300 miles of Baghdad.
The truth was something else to be sure. At the time, there were indeed Members of the United States military directly outside the building from which he was broadcasting, We had that building surrounded.
Yesterday, in the white house Briefing Room, Jay Carney stood in front of a TV camera and told US that the, “Protests are not directed at the United States.”
Where exactly does one begin.
First of all, calling what is happening in more than a dozen countries, “protests” is a gross understatement.
At best, they are riots.
At worst, they are acts of war.
But “Protests???”
Second, Carney HAS become our version of Baghdad Bob.
If the attacks against our United States Embassies and Consulates, If the burning of our school in Tunisia, If the murders of 2 United States diplomats and 2 United States Navy Seals, If the ripping and burning of United States flags before replacing them with flags of al Qaeda, If the chants of “Death to America” are NOT directed at the United States…
To whom, EXACTLY, are they directed???
At yesterday’s service as the bodies of our fallen from Libya returned, Hillary Clinton made remarks. After remembering Chris Stevens and the others, Hillary than, again, made strong remarks disavowing the U.S. Government having a thing to do with the “movie.”
There is, I believe, a reason for this constant denial regarding the “movie” and the apologetic tone regarding the “movie” from the State Department.
