What I have noticed is the way that all the media have adopted the Bush administration new speak.

If an individual is an Iranian nationalist who was an enemy of Saddam that didn't leave Iraq because you were first and foremost an Iraqi, then the Bush administration calls them anti-American.

On the other hand, an individual who left Iraq two or three decades ago to get rich someplace else, like in the US or Europe, and then returned to Iraq seeking to use connections with the Bush administration to get really rich from exploiting Iraqi oil, then you are pro-American.

What would Republicans say about an American citizen that left the US in his twenties to go to Europe or Asia to get rich, that spent two decades outside the US, who then returns to the US and soon is not just a contender for major office, but is in fact the head of the government. Like Maliki is in Iraq.

I was also struck by the Bush reaction to Zimbabwe's police state detaining and beating the members of a US diplomatic mission in Zimbabwe, just like the US military treated several Iranian diplomatic missions in Iraq. Something along the lines of "totally unacceptable and something that will not be forgotten."

And I find it interesting how the media keep reporting on the Democratic primaries at the direction of the conservative pundits. Pushing the line that Obama can't win in November because he can't get the votes of the key voter blocks. Of course, what no one reports is that when Obama loses against Hillary in those primaries where he proves he can't beat McCain, Obama gets more votes than McCain because the voters are voting for anybody but McCain even though no one is running but McCain. To say that McCain is the clear winner in a number of elections is like saying the Democratic primary in Michigan proves that Hillary was overwhelming elected because she got 55% of the vote and the closest competitor was Kucinich with 3%. Under those circumstances, the president of Iran was elected with a landslide with overwhelming Iranian support, orders of magnitude greater than what Reagan got.

Of course, news reporting is a mix of emotional response to events with an emotional interpretation because no one sees the whole picture, and for the most part the reporting is along the lines of "the cock commanded the sun to rise today; clearly the cock is master of the universe."