It’s not going as planed for Bush. The media has turned a bit around and finally remembers its task to reveal facts and opine for decency. Yes, their propaganda for the Iraq war did fall apart, yes, they screwed up the execution of the war, yes, they are robber barons. But where does the press asks the real questions? Why does the US feels the need to be a superpower. Why is there the need to be the bully? Still 170 degree to turn folks.

Why is a report about 100,000 Iraqi war death – in just 18 month – published in the UK Lancet and not in the States? Why is anybody astonished about these numbers? Hersh has been asking this for weeks and month:

Since June 28, the bombing has gone up exponentially. Bombing, bombing, bombing. Civilian targets, civilian neighborhoods.

But I don’t see anyone in the press worrying about it. I don’t see them demanding to know how many sorties we’re flying – have they grown? Are more bombs being dropped? What’s the tonnage? We don’t know any of that, do we?

And its not only Iraqis dying. GIs dying in the war are only reported when they die in Iraq. As most severely wounded are flown out of Iraq within 24 hours, there must be some number of them dying from their wounds later. Where are they counted? How big is that number? One hundred? One thousand? More? Does anybody ask this question?

John Pilger in the New Statesman sees “Americanism” endangering the world, no matter who wins this election. There is only one hope

Perhaps those millions of worried Americans who are currently paralysed by wanting to get rid of Bush at any price will shake off their ambivalence, regardless of who wins on 2 November. Then, as during the civil rights campaign, the Vietnam war and the great movement to freeze nuclear weapons, will a giant awaken?

It’s an open question. Mosh makes me believe that there is a chance for this to happen. But how long will it take and how many people will have to die before?