In his article America ‘Trapped’ by False Narratives, Robert Parry reminds us how the media is aiding and abetting the disastrous path we are following in Libya.

Regarding Libya, the major U.S. news media already is repeating many of the journalistic errors made in the early phases of previous conflicts against regimes led by U.S.-designated villains.

For instance, NBC spent much of Monday touting a story from “intelligence sources” about a supposed intercept of a Libyan government communiqué ordering bodies from the morgue to be scattered near sites of U.S. aerial bombings. When reporters found no evidence that this tactic was actually being used, NBC correspondents gave themselves credit for heading it off.

No attention was given to the other possibility – that U.S. propaganda experts or the Libyan opposition had planted the intercept story as a tactic to whip up more animosity toward the Libyan government and to deflect criticism of the U.S. bombings if they did kill large numbers of civilians.

Despite the lack of evidence that Muammar Gaddafi has targeted and slaughtered Libyan civilians or had any intention to do so, we use this as an excuse for yet another military intervention.  If it worked to rescue George W. Bush’s failing administration, perhaps Barack Obama figures it can rescue his.  I am so tired of getting exactly what I voted against.  If I were a believer in evil conspiracies, I might think some power has threatened Obama so frighteningly that he has agreed to go along with policies that he abhors.