remember the war in Iraq?

Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham do, and they’re trying to make sure that their do-nothing colleagues in Congress take note of America’s successes in that godforsaken land. Nothing doing, say the Dems [e.a.]:

The Senators — allies of John McCain — had hoped to attach the resolution to a defense bill under consideration this week. But Mr. Reid wouldn’t allow it. Democrats have often claimed that while they may oppose the war in Iraq, they wholeheartedly support the troops. That’s a defensible position, and this resolution honoring our soldiers and Marines for a job well done gave them a chance to back up their rhetoric. Yet they still balked.

The reality is that success in Iraq has confounded the political left, which placed a huge political bet on our defeat. Senator Reid famously declared the war lost in April 2007. Joe Biden introduced a resolution opposing the surge. And Hillary Clinton said the reports of progress in Iraq required “a willing suspension of disbelief.” In the Democratic narrative, our troops in Iraq are victims of a lost cause, not heroes. They’re allowed to get maimed and killed, but not to succeed.

Thus Democrats are left to argue that success in Iraq is irrelevant because the real fight against al Qaeda is occurring in Afghanistan. Or that the reduced violence in Iraq has resulted not from the troop surge but from the Sunni Awakening and the retreat of the Sadr militias.

Sound familiar? It should, because E. L. Doctorow and Howard Zinn expressed exactly this view when confronted with incontrovertible proof that the Rosenbergs were guilty as charged. That truth is irrelevant, those stalwarts of the Old Left claim, because the real fight is against the American government, which overreacted in 1953 and which has forever since been considered guilty even when proven only a little bit guilty.

Isn’t it so much simpler to admit the truth? to be intellectually honest?

I call my blog Infotainment Rules, and I have great fun here at the expense of the cretins and clowns who make their living in front of the cameras of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, but when I actually think about the repercussions of the three ring circus that is American television and of the serious media’s whitewash of inconvenient truths (and its simultaneous hyping of convenient exaggerations) , it scares me a little and it pisses me off a whole lot.

The media is willfully spreading ignorance and covering up the truth with lies.