Wikipedia as Democratic mouthpiece?

Wikipedia as Democratic mouthpiece? The user-written and -edited site has been accused of left-leaning

judgments on the part of its dominant editors, but not necessarily of hewing to any party line. But

now, one must wonder: Wikipedia trumpets the White House talking point that today, August 19, 2010, was

the “end” of the Iraq War.

The reason this can’t be considered the typical imperial stenography we’re all used to from the likes

of CNN — they’ll report the truth as handed down to them from Iever is in power — is that, in fact,

the war is not over by any meaningful metric. If they were simply going on authority-declared

technicalities, Wikipedia would have listed the war as over on the “Mission Accomplished” day of May

1, 2003. After all, Iraq’s army had been defeated and “major” combat operations after that date had

officially ended. One wonders what the effective nuking of Fallujah would be considered.

Almost immediately, some discussion was sparked by users. “This is a scam. The US is not the sole

participant,” said one. Not only that, the US is still itself very much a participant, as 50,000

combat troops will simply be redefined, as Bush did with “operations,” as “transitional” troops.

See how easy? Voila! But that’s not all. The State Dept., as we have been reporting for several

months, plans its own 50,000-strong auxiliary force. We do need to protect our diplomats, naturally,

and there will be ever so many of them!