Sunday, February 26, 2012  And the war drags on . . .  What is
it with the Associated Press lately? Is it bound and determined
to discredit itself and demonstrate that they write in service
of the US government and not in service of the public? We
already suffered through Lara Jakes' embarrassment last week
(opening pargraph insists al Qaeda in Iraq is responsible for
Thursdays bombings and second paragraph says it's an al Qaeda
"linked" group). Now they want you to know that the remains of
the last missing US service member (from the Iraq War) have been
discovered. (If you're wondering, Lara Jakes is also the author
of the AP piece were knocking right now.) They're hardly the
only ones self-embarrassing. Hannah Allam (McClatchy Newspapers)
repeats the party line on Staff Sgt Ahmed Altaie. Michael M.
Phillips (Wall St. Journal) plays parrot as well.  It's all a
bunch of spin and useless crap. Allam comes closest to the truth
when she notes Altaie went to visit his new bride in Baghdad
which was against milita