Mario Loyola seems to think that the official confirmation that Iraq is going to hell (which everyone who can read already knows), as shown above, constitutes the “propagation of strategic national secrets in wartime.”  Here’s a hint: none of this is really that much of a secret, except perhaps to the administration, one of whose prominent members (no prizes for guessing who it is) continues to claim, for instance, that the Iraqi government is doing “remarkably well” or, as George Will noted, that he “thinks” talking about the insurgency being in its “last throes” last year might have been “premature.”  No, rather than face up to what everyone else can see for themselves (or is it another one of those sinister “media realities” created to “hurt” Mr. Bush?), Mr. Loyola hints that maybe the slide was doctored by the Times, presumably to make things seem worse in Iraq than they “really” are.  All that’s missing is the de rigueur complaint that the media are not reporting the “good news” from Iraq, and we could just as easily be c. 2004. 

But for some reason I thought that it was the media that was stuck in the “reality-based community” and it was the Empire that created its own reality–isn’t it interesting to see how it is now the former who are supposed to have become the illusionists, weaving a fantasy (and committing treason to boot!), while the administration has its feet firmly planted on the ground.  How fortunate for the rest of us.