European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 17 opinion Bush Iraq spin gets pre september tryout Arianna Huffington according to the White House and to the dwindling number of congressional dead Enders still backing the War in Iraq we have to wait until september to be Able to judge whether presi Dent Bush escalation strategy has been a Ive just re turned from septem ber and i can Tell you two things 1 Ive seen the future and it Doest 2 the administration will lie and claim that it How did i accomplish this Tim travel ing feat very simple i watched the june 17 meet the and there was Ryan ambassador to who together with David Petraeus will testify to he demonstrated that along with the surge in theres also been a surge in Crocker served up his Crock in a robotic manner that made him look like he had been put together by Disney image neers not surprising since the administration is running out of Actu Al human beings willing to defend the so instead they rolled out the the show was required viewing for any one who cares about ending this be cause its Clear that crackers talking Points Are a preview of the spin the administration will use come they were trial and democrats should Start shooting them Down so Courtesy of ambassador Crock is a sneak peek of some of what youre going to hear in september and what it really Means America could not ask for a More experienced and More Able military Leader than they have in i have heard him give Clear assessments to the to congressional visitors As they come and youve heard him in the open he Calls it As he sees translation in when he tells you that the surge is you had better believe him the other thing i think were going to do in because we owe it to our leadership at both ends of Pennsylva Nia is also try to provide an assess the busies Are nothing if not so its All but guaranteed they Are going to Cherr pick and ment of what the consequences might be if we pursue other translation even if the surge int going so Well come we Are going to Tell everyone especially those in Congress that if we leave Iraq we will unleash a genocidal Bloodbath and War throughout the planet the entire so we really need to give it More the surge buys time for a political pro Cess to get some legs under translation we really need to give it More there is nothing easy about the task in front of Iraq and i have certainly been struck since Ive been Here at the amount of commitment and Effort that senior iraqi officials have demonstrated to try and get the Job translation we really need to give it More its definitely not by any Means a universally negative translation dont believe the believe us you know the soft bigotry of the Bush administrations Low expectations for Iraq has finally hit Bottom when were doing slightly better than universally Nega Tive has become the rallying the president has said that Petrae us september report will be a very important that would be if we could Trust the general and the ambassador and the rest of the administration to honestly assess the but looking at the facts on the deceiving the Ameri can people about and making Deci Sions based on those has been the White houses to for the entire run of the what makes anybody think the administration is suddenly going to change come the magical moment in september the busies Are nothing if not consist so its All but guaranteed they Are going to Cherr pick and so democrats and everyone who really cares about the troops need to immediately and preemptively Start Tak ing on the administrations table setting that the Public will be inoculated against the full blown is Campaign sure to come this Bush and his vice Dick Cheney Are never going to leave Iraq will if they were the kind of men who could be trusted to judge the facts honestly in september and act we  be in the mess were in right the Battle of september has already mistake insufficient to describe Duke Case Ann Coulter there is nothing so dangerous As a Southern Liberal hoping to be invited to a Graydon Carter As is now prosecutor Mike Nifong falsely accused three White Duke Lacrosse players of gang raping a strip even As evidence piled up proving it never in the weeks after an unstable stripper since this is not a hol Lywood a strip per accused the players of Nifong stated on National to i am convinced that there was a he called the players contemptuously sneering that their daddies could buy them expensive envy is an emotion Well known for producing Model revealing his own Nifong said defense attorneys for the no indicted play ers were almost disappointed that their clients didst get indicted so they could be a part of this spectacle Here in vanity fair did you see where i talked about their the Arianna Huffington of the Legal profession might still have made his Star turn at a vanity fair but for the Fortu Ity of the defense lawyers discovering that he had tried to hide Dan evidence from the revealing that the Crystal Gail had the Dan of four different men in or on her including the Driver who took her to stripping gigs and enough other men to bring a class action suit against none of the Dan matched any Duke la Crosse who Are starting to look like the Only men in the Durham area who Haven had sex with Nifong has tried to portray himself As simply making this is not even a half wit like Nifong could have believed something happened in that Bath As he said during his disbarment hearing last he was willing to Send three innocent men to prison to improve his electoral viability in a heavily Black District and to become a Liberal hero in Manhattan Nifong studiously refused to take a peek at the on March he told reporters he knew a rape had occurred based on i quote my read ing of the report of the emergency room that report was not Given to the police until april making it the equiv Alent of the forged nigerian letter Joe Wil prickly City by Scott Stantis get Csc Sencw Pant the tue is suet of ctr son claims to have debunked eight months before it surfaced at the but there were some facts even Nifong  have he for that the cab Driver who picked up accused rapist Reade Seligmann had signed a sworn statement at testing to the fact that the accused was in his cab when the rape was allegedly taking we know Nifong office knew about the cab Driver because the police soon picked him up on a three Earold shoplifting the cabdriver claims that when the police came to arrest they asked if i had anything new to say about the la Crosse when he said they arrested he was tried on the three Earold Case and Nifong also knew that the second exotic dancer at the party called the rape Allega Tion a Crock and said she had been Sepa rated from Mangum for no More than five minutes All in other another stripper knew Mangum want but Nifong based his entire Case on her or rather on one version of her multiple Sto we know Nifong knew about the second strippers statement because his office was soon offering her favourable bail treatment for violating she took the Deal and suddenly decided it was possible a rape had Mangum had made similar accusations of gang rape 10 years but her own father denied it had happened and no charges were Ever we know Nifong knew about magnums prior false accusation because when he was asked about he responded All the facts Are not yet and Many of the so called facts that have been reported and commented on Are simply As we now the Only wrong facts circulating in the press were the ones Nifong had put Nifong knew that Mangum made Tawana Brawley look like Billy Graham she kept changing her altering the num ber of men who raped and was unable to identify her except Mangum confidently and repeatedly identified Only one Lacrosse player As one of her rapists Brad Nifong knew this because Brad Ross promptly gave the police proof that he was at North Carolina state University with his girl Friend the night of the this investigation want a mistake it was the Media love to drone on about the explosive combination of race and sex and  wait forever for a single no hoax Case to prove it in the truly explosive combination is Liberal and me half right liberals think Hollywood fantasies Are real and in conservatives like Rush Limbaugh Are never fabulously Rich and conserva Tive christians like Tom delay Are never influential and hand some boys from Good families Are never Nifong was supposed to look like Gregory Peck not like Bob Wexler but its the Lacrosse players who look like Gregory second rate liberals who went to Medio Cre schools and married mediocre women Are burning with jealousy from their none mediocre so they use their government jobs to attack their betters and sneer about the players like so much injustice in this whole sick spectacle was the revenge of the mediocre against the stupid and envious is a bad combo