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What do you bet that when our troops all get sent home that our new pres.
is going to take all the credit????
Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our
military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!
Winning Isn't News
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
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 in 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 (London) 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.
Copyright 2008 Investor's Business Daily. All Rights Reserved.
Addendum: The reason you haven't seen this on American television or
read about it in the American press is simple--journalism is 'dead' in
this country. They are controlled by Liberal Democrats who would rather
see our troops defeated than recognize a successful Republican initiated
response to 9/11.
Media probably were holding 'til after coronation of BHO in order to give
him credit. God bless our troops, God bless our current President and God
bless the U.S.A.
How many will you forward it to? We need to get it known around the
country ASAP. Thanks.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/v/victory-ignored.htm
is going to take all the credit????
Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our
military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!
Winning Isn't News
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
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 in 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 (London) 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.
Copyright 2008 Investor's Business Daily. All Rights Reserved.
Addendum: The reason you haven't seen this on American television or
read about it in the American press is simple--journalism is 'dead' in
this country. They are controlled by Liberal Democrats who would rather
see our troops defeated than recognize a successful Republican initiated
response to 9/11.
Media probably were holding 'til after coronation of BHO in order to give
him credit. God bless our troops, God bless our current President and God
bless the U.S.A.
How many will you forward it to? We need to get it known around the
country ASAP. Thanks.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/v/victory-ignored.htm
