Because God forbid the traditional media do its job.
Anyone who hoped that the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq would inspire the country’s leading newspapers to finally editorialize for a radical change in the White House’s war policy has to be disappointed, again. From this evidence, the editorial boards of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Knight Ridder collective and others appear to be as clueless about what to do as are Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld.And as E&P notes, Bush sycophant Fred Hiatt at the Washington Post didn't even bother writing an editorial on Iraq today at all. Though for him that's a step in the right direction. He probably would have just made shit up.
Of course, the one newspaper actually doing its job is run by right-wing gazillionaire and funder-of-all-things-evil Richard Mellon Scaife. It called today for a US withdrawal from Iraq, and warned implicitly against attacking Iran.
Just like in Congress, it's the Republicans who finally have the nerve to enunciate what should be Democratic policy.
