Classify Iraq

I was just thinking earlier today that the real problem for the Cheney administration in Iraq is that it's all out there in the open. They and their colleagues on The Hill have pretty much screwed up everything they've laid their greedy, grasping hands on, but for the most part it's been done in relative secrecy. Whether it's coming up with energy plans developed by mysterious industry execs behind the closed doors of the White House, to forcing House members to vote on bills they've had no chance to even glance at, they've kept so much from the glare of the camera, allowing them to stage manage their abject failures as glorious successes.

Iraq, though, can't be kept under wraps. It's a huge, festering boil that, even though most reporters can't get out of Baghdad because of security fears, what little they get to see is horrendous enough. And even though they don't report on half of the slaughter that's occurring there, even though we are not permitted to view the carnage on the networks or on the pages of the major dailies, what little we see is bad enough.

Medium Lobster's been thinking along similar lines and says it's time to change all that.