Hidden in Plane Sight: US Media Dodging Air War in Iraq

Hidden in Plane Sight: US Media Dodging Air War in Iraq
By Norman Solomon
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Monday 05 December 2005

The US government is waging an air war in Iraq. "In recent months, the tempo of American bombing seems to have increased," Seymour Hersh reported in the December 5 edition of The New Yorker. "Most of the targets appear to be in the hostile, predominantly Sunni provinces that surround Baghdad and along the Syrian border."

Hersh added: "As yet, neither Congress nor the public has engaged in a significant discussion or debate about the air war."

Here's a big reason why: Major US news outlets are dodging the extent of the Pentagon's bombardment from the air, an avoidance all the more egregious because any drawdown of US troop levels in Iraq is very likely to be accompanied by a step-up of the air war.

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Mainstream news outlets in the United States haven't yet acknowledged a possibility that is both counterintuitive and probable: The US military could end up killing more Iraqi people when there are fewer Americans in Iraq. "Lowering the number of US troops in conjunction with a more violent air war and creation of an Iraqi client military, as some are suggesting, will likely increase the number of Iraqis killed," says Joseph Gerson of the American Friends Service Committee. "This would in effect be 'changing the color of the corpses' in order to make the continuing war more palatable to the US public."

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120505Y.shtml

the ground game the U.S. resorts to air power. Since it worked so well in Vietnam it should work in Eyerack also.:sarcasm: