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July 29, 2008
To Our Media .....Winning Isn't News
Winning Isn't News
Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq.
London's Sunday Times called it:
"the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror." A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.
The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare. We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.
We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.
Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there.
Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.
Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.
Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved "satisfactory" progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks — a big change for the better from a year ago.
Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates, which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad — an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.
But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, "the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks" that signaled political progress.
The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.
Wild Thing's comment.........
Thank you to our troops!!!!!! Let’s celebrate the heroes. I wish OUR media would write things like this and not only that but speak about our troops like this too.
....Thank you Mark for sending this.
Posted by Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 01:47 AM
Comments
Of course our media isn't going to cover it.
That would be bad for the liberals. Very bad. It would show how truly stupid they really are.
Remember, we have to be "spoon fed" everything because we are too stupid to think for ourselves.
But I know, in my heart, that we have won this war and our kids are doing such a tremendous job.
But it is sad that the people in the UK are thinking more highly of our kids than we are here at home.
It's time to stop thinking of ourselves for once in our lives and give these kids the honor and respect they have so richly deserved.
Posted by: Lynn at July 29, 2008 04:47 AM
No -!! anything Pro - America- is not good for Americans to hear about-! Not while the MSM is so busy filling Americans heads with propoganda about the wonderful Puke Face Obama- - The media needs to clean up their act- and do it soon- They are helping to destroy the morale of Americans! I don't know what their problem is - but they sure got one- they are liberal and ignorant- hard to find any that are worth listening too-!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at July 29, 2008 10:23 AM
The MSM hasn't really reported news for a long time. They are more like Entertainment Tonite. The MSM opiniates and propagandizes but does not report. It discriminates and selects who and what it talks about and what it is going to say. The MSM is not news anymore. It is all selected editorial.
Posted by: TomR at July 29, 2008 12:26 PM
That poster succinctly says it all. Thank the good lord for the internet and the blogs, they have exposed the biased and downright lying mainstream media for what they are - Communist tools. Some of our neighbors get it and support our efforts, all too often it's only verbal support, for those who join the physical fight and for those who chose to tell the truth, thank you.
Posted by: Jack at July 29, 2008 12:49 PM
Lynn, LOL love how you put that. I keep forgetting we are supposed to be stupid.
You are so right that is just exactly how i tis too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:11 PM
Cheryl, one day I weould love to see protests against the media. It won't happen but it is fun thinking of some great signs that could be help up about the media at rallies. haha
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:16 PM
Tom, your right, that is just what it is. Selected editorials. It is sickening the way they fawn over Obama on all of them except Fox is the last hold out and they are weakening.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:18 PM
Jack, yes I agree, thank God for the bloggers and some of the online media that helps expose the truth. I love how some of the conservative media online even have blogs. It is a great way to thank them too for the work they do writing a lot of the articles.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 29, 2008 07:22 PM
