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This page confirms the story in London Times and
Investor’s Business Daily posted 09/02/08
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/v/victory-ignored.htm
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Remember the Democrats Anti-American Rhetoric Aimed at Undermining
the Efforts of the Bush Administration?
Harry Reid, Durbin, Obama, Kennedy, Clinton, Kerry and so
forth- Cut & Run Strategy?
Please note the date so that when it's announced after the swearing
in of our new president
and he tries to get the credit for ending the war you will at least
know the truth.
We probably won't be seeing this news coverage in most of the papers
as well as most TV news channel.
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 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-Qai da'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 st ories 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.
God bless our troops, and God bless the U.S.A |