MSM Hysterics in Wake of Shrine Bombing

My local Gannett newspaper, on an inside Nation & World page, under the Digest column carried a brief headlined, "Curfew doesn't work: 60 die in violence."

Bombs and gunfire killed 60 people as another daytime curfew Saturday failed to halt violence that has claimed nearly 200 lives since the destruction of a Shiite shrine set off a wave of retribution against Sunnis and pushed Iraq toward civil war.

The media refuses to place the level of violence in any sort of context. In the run-up to the recent elections as many as one hundred people were killed in a single suicide bombing. Also, we know that 47 Sunnis and Shia factory workers returning from a peaceful protest were pulled from a bus and executed. This was surely the work of al-Qaeda or Baathists seeking to promote chaos. It is doubtful that this was retribution.

But the "chaos of civil war" better promotes an anti-war, anti-Bush agenda.