Is the Media Finally Turning on Bush?

Is the Media Finally Turning on Bush?
The Importance of Tipping

By DAVID LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff07092003.html

Tipping.

That's the new watchword.

When does the situation facing American troops in Iraq deteriorate to the
point that public sentiment "tips" against further U.S. involvement and
against the Bush administration's policy of occupation and "nation
building"?

The signs, for American GI's and for George Bush's reelection hopes, are
getting grimmer.

Already 70 American soldiers have died in Iraq since virtual fly-boy Bush
prematurely declared the war to be "over" in a staged victory rally aboard
an aircraft carrier off San Diego harbor.

A search for the terms "guerrilla war" and "Iraq" turns up hundreds of
citations, most dating from about the middle of June onward. Some, like an
article on June 18 in the Detroit Free Press, simply use the term "guerrilla
war" in news reports as an unremarkable and most apt characterization of the
current military situation in Iraq. Others, like an article on June 23 in
the Christian Science Monitor, use the term in editorials warning that the
situation threatens to become a "quagmire," (another Vietnam-era term that's
returning to currency). Still others use the term in articles warning that