{"id":325,"date":"2006-02-25T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=325"},"modified":"2006-02-25T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T19:27:02","slug":"there-is-no-upside-for-an-iraqi-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/02\/25\/there-is-no-upside-for-an-iraqi-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no upside for an Iraqi Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004095\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/foxnewsloveswarcivilwariniraqedition.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>From the perspective of Fox News, I do not know what the upshot of a Civil War in Iraq would be.  Granted, we have easy footage for the type of war pornography the network specialized in during &#8220;Operation Iraqi Liberation&#8221; (Or Operation OIL)*, to be manipulated with added sound-effects as they did back during OP OIL, and with a week-end perview of the &#8220;Sites and Sounds&#8221; of Iraq for the week, upbeat music in the background with a montage similar to the orgasmic climax of &#8220;Doctor Strangelove&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But we don&#8217;t have the easy storyline.  Whose side are we supposed to be rooting for?  During OP OIL, we had I believe it was Sheppard Smith proclaiming, &#8220;And today the SHIITE Hit the fan!&#8221;, those Shiite &#8212; being that they&#8217;re the majority faction in the country and thus whatever democratic inch Iraq has gotten being the dominant block of the US backed government &#8212; are thus already demonized by Fox News beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>So, sorry Fox News.  You have little upside in welcoming on an Iraqi Civil War.  Save your good tidings for America&#8217;s next invasion, when you can clean things up to make a good patriotic storylind of the USA versus fill-in-the-blank.<\/p>\n<p>*You know, on second thought, I should start calling it by the Pentagon given name &#8212; the acronym OIF is similar enough to what you shout when you&#8217;re punched in the stomache that it would work just as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the perspective of Fox News, I do not know what the upshot of a Civil War in Iraq would be. Granted, we have easy footage for the type of war pornography the network specialized in during &#8220;Operation Iraqi Liberation&#8221; (Or Operation OIL)*, to be manipulated with added sound-effects as they did back during OP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}