Howard Kurtz

wrote today a typical whoring piece about some Democrats putting their campaigns on hiatus during Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq. Well, Kurtz's notion that national security--a phony issue raised for phony reasons--may not help Democrats but help Bush win election next year is pure hogwash.

Look at the Vietnam War, a war that lasted a decade, and tell me that people, presidential candidates as well as ordinary citizens, kept quiet.

The big difference between then and now is the information apparatus of the media has turned almost wholly propagandistic. Dissent is openly ridiculed or outright banned. People like Kurtz share a large portion of the blame with their endless cheerleading of an incompetent, criminal administration just to get tax favors and deregulation from said administration.

Edit: Even Howard Dean has been silenced a bit because he sent a written apology to John Edwards about remarks Dean made a couple of weeks ago at a California gathering of Democrats. Look for the screws to be tightened even more against Democrats.