What do you bet that when our troops all get sent home that our new President 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 1,000AQI 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 President Bush stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media doesn'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 President Bush and God bless the U.S.A.
How many will you forward it to? We need to get it known around the country ASAP. Over 10 million people will have read this by March1, 2009. With all your help we can reach well over 30 million world wide. Thanks,let the truth be known throught the world!!
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jt345
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I must say that is refreshing too here. And it is really about time.Just think about the women Who vote now. There was alot of good did there.
But You right The US press(pinheads)will probably not say a word. They like too jump on the steere sde of lyme diease. appleseed
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lymeladyinNY
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Need Lots of Help, thanks for posting this.
I just watched a CNN reporter "reporting" the Tea Party. Her behavior was outrageously unprofessional to say the least.
Thanks, GWB. Miss ya!
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Hoosiers51
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I hate to get political on this site, but since it has already "gone there"....
....The Iraq war has been a "success" in a way for years. A man who was guilty of numerous crimes against humanity was finally tried, found guilty, and eventually executed for those crimes.
In our country, when someone who has committed a crime it becomes a huge deal and people want the person captured so the families of the victims can have justice.
For some reason I didn't hear many cries for Saddam to be captured. It's almost like he could get away with it because he was so powerful.
It is too bad that so many people make fun of President Bush. True, not everything he did was stellar, but it's sad people will not remember the good that he did.
Sure sometimes he fumbled for words, but it was because he preferred to not use a teleprompter. It takes someone pretty sure of their beliefs to not need or want to read words on a screen when you are speaking in front of people.
I apologize if this is too political, but it seems like people do not like to talk about these things. Bush is literally a 4-letter word to some people, and they are so afraid to associate him with anything good. It is silly really, the idea of seeing a person in such a one-sided way.
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Tincup
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Needs said...
"God bless our troops, God bless President Bush and God bless the U.S.A."
Well, if ok with you... I would like to add...
God Bless ALL of our Presidents who serve our country...
And God Bless ALL of our Military men and women...
And please God Bless the entire USA, our planet and beyond!
WELL said I love too see our freedom work. It is about time We,started too act like the origial americans,it is good We speak Our minds.
It is funny ,And I was part of the group who marched and protested in the sixties and early 70's. Now when that group has the power it is unpatriotic for someone else who has a different way of thing too say anything. Kind of of a double stanard,I would say.
And yes God Bless all the troops and all of Our public Servants.(and I stress the word servant) appleseed
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Don't you just love change? Millions spent studying hookers in China and perverts in South America. Do you think anybody is driving this ship?
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kelmo
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What if China decides to "assume our note". We will all go byebye.
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