FISK IN AMERICA

Robert Fisk visits America and "discovers" that the MSM and Hollywood have finally wised up and are following the American public in turning against the Bush administration. Like the MSM and Hollywood have up to now been pro-Bush. (Bush's approval rating is up, a bit, by the way.)

Fisk also offers an example of the power of the thugs in Iraq:

When those same Iraqi gunmen this week again took control of the entire city of Ramadi (already "liberated" four times by US troops since 2003), the story shared equal billing on prime time television with Bush's latest and infinitely wearying insistence that Iraqi forces - who in reality are so infiltrated by insurgents that they are a knife in America's back - will soon be able to take over security duties from the occupation forces.

Fisk might be exaggerating just a bit:

US Marines spokesman Captain Jeffrey Pool told the AFP news agency the militants had simply fired a rocket propelled grenade at a joint US-Iraqi observation post at 0930 (0630 GMT).

"As of 1400 (1100 GMT), there were no signs of any significant insurgent activity anywhere in the city."

Captain Pool accused the militants of exaggerating the scale of the attack.

"This is clearly a sign of how desperate insurgents have become," he said.

I'm going to stick my neck out and go with Captain Pool on this one.