The War That Won't Go Away
Say what you want about all of of the others rumored to affect the 2006 and 2008 elections - immigration, health care, minimum wage, moral virtue and basic competence - the war in Iraq and the role of the U.S. military (today's 37th most-cited phrase) are issues that won't go away, and todays' blogosphere findings illustrate why.
Two new soldiers
While politicians like Sen. John Murtha and White House advisers like Karl Rove (No. 22 and 9, respectively among today's most-blogged-about people) debate the policy and strategy of war, two soldiers found dead in Iraq - privates Kristian Menchaca and Thomas L. Tucker - are the latest casualties and among today's burstiest names in the blogosphere. And bloggers simply hash out the right vs. the left positions (among today's top blog posts)...and nothing ever changes.
A BlogPulse trend graph shows an upward trend in conversation about the war, with fairly flat discussion about Iraq and "democracy," and occasional spikes about the insurgency in that Middle Eastern country.
Tangential...or not
Other hot items in the blogosphere today that are related to Iraq include the transcript of an embassy communique (today's No. 5 top news story) sent to Washington just before President Bush's surprise visit to Bagdhad last week, and a Time magazine excerpt of Ron Suskind's new book about terror plots in U.S. subways.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 20, 2006 03:03 PM
