AFP Jumps the Shark
Charles Johnson
Sun Mar 2, 2008 at 9:39 pm PST • Views: 255
Agence France Presse goes way overboard, lavishing praise on Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and mocking the US, in one of the most disgustingly biased mainstream media articles you’ll ever read: Ahmadinejad pokes Uncle Sam in eye on Iraq visit.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poked his finger in the eye of Uncle Sam on his visit to Iraq on Sunday, displaying his country’s regional influence in the face of 158,000 US soldiers in Iraq.
Top officials from the US-supported Iraqi government welcomed Ahmadinejad with hugs and kisses on a trip that opens a new phase between former enemies which fought a bitter war in the 1980s.
The televised lovefest was enough to give supporters of US President George W. Bush a seizure.
In 2002, Bush famously described Iraq — then under Saddam Hussein — Iran and North Korea as the axis of evil. One year later, US-led forces stormed Iraq and toppled Saddam.
Nearly five years, billions of dollars and 3,972 US dead later, American soldiers are holed up in fortified bases while the Islamic republic’s leader is welcomed with flowers in Baghdad.
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