Grim Milestone Watch

Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 8:10:04 am PST

Mainstream media is full of stories this morning trumpeting the “grim milestone:” U.S. Troop Deaths In Iraq Exceed 9/11 Toll, 6 More GI Deaths Put Military Past Grim Milestone As 36 Iraqis Die In Other Attacks.

I thought I was finished being surprised by the depth of our media’s corruption.

The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks claimed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Opponents of President Bush have criticized him for raising the attacks as a justification for the protracted fight in Iraq.

Yet the media feels no compunction about tying these two completely unrelated numbers together, as justification for their relentless self-loathing suicidal pacifist propaganda. They’ve really crossed a line this time.

UPDATE at 12/26/06 8:42:19 am:

And now Agence France Presse is recycling Iraq “quagmire” stories.