Were Did All The "al-Qaida" Come From?

by soccerdad

All we have heard from MSM the last couple of days is how the new big operations in Iraq are trying to kill al-Qaida fighters. As to where they have all come from, Glenn Greenwald as usual is on the case.

That the Bush administration, and specifically its military commanders, decided to begin using the term "Al Qaeda" to designate "anyone and everyeone we fight against or kill in Iraq" is obvious. All of a sudden, every time one of the top military commanders describes our latest operations or quantifies how many we killed, the enemy is referred to, almost exclusively now, as "Al Qaeda."

But what is even more notable is that the establishment press has followed right along, just as enthusiastically. I don't think the New York Times has published a story about Iraq in the last two weeks without stating that we are killing "Al Qaeda fighters," capturing "Al Qaeda leaders," and every new operation is against "Al Qaeda."

He details how the media, as is its mandate, has quickly adopted the Bush line. As Glenn points out a major reason for the purposeful obfuscation is to drum up support for the "surge" and the Iraq debacle in general. But I think it has a secondary purpose. It will help them diffuse any outcries about the sheer brutality that these operations will involve. Mark my words, they will end up making Fallujah look like a traffic stop.