The American Spectator

/p> p> The discovery that a ballistic missile site near Baghdad was dismantled and shipped out of Iraq as scrap between May 2003 and February 2004 says less about WMD (which the author admits the facility was not) and a lot more about how the occupation of Iraq was completely bungled after the Hussein regime was dismantled. br> — Duff Bailey /p> p> Baloney! Mr. Martinovich’s only fact is Mr. Perricos’ photos of a ballistic missile site that was present in May 2003 and missing in February 2004. The Iraqi army was in shambles in March 2003 and the U.S. declared an end to major combat operations on May 1, 2003. Saddam Hussein is running for his life and probably living in holes in the ground like the one in which he was found. How is he shipping WMD out of Iraq as scrap metal during the period of May, 2003 and February 2004? Perricos has no evidence that the scrap metal findings are not the result of the wholesale looting of Iraq by Iraqis that took place under the noses of U.S. troops. The reason Perricos’ report was of little interest to the media is because it is crap. No story here, just the ramblings of a neo-con. br> — Jim Breef /p>

In regard to Steven Martinovich’s “Another Ignored Discovery” I am thoroughly disgusted with the media’s focus on ignoring everything in the Iraq conflict and indeed in foreign affairs in general that they cannot blow out of proportion and blame on President Bush. Witness the President’s audience with the Pope. The two men traded compliments, agreed they disagreed on a few things, Mr. Bush presented a medal to the Pope, the Pope said “God bless America, and what were the headlines from our “fair and balanced” journalists the next day? “Pope Rebukes Bush!” In fact the Pope praised Bush.

p>The problem is: What is to be done? The so-called mainstream press in the U.S. is simply an organ of the American Socialist left (read that: national Democratic Party). My solution, arrived at years ago, was to refuse to buy left wing papers. I grew up with the Baltimore Sun (known locally as the Baltimore Pravda ). About ten years ago I switched to the