Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London
Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!
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 inWashington 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.
Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!
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 inWashington 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.
