Posted by
nhoop on Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:17:44 PM
This message from a dear friend:
<b>Thank you for this article,
Nat. My youngest son James completed his 15-month
tour in Iraq,
this past Friday. I will present this article to him----after
all---the media
will not. Very sad
and un-American, the media. :-( </B>
After I sent him this:
The below is not from some crackpot, right wing extreme
publication. It is an excerpt from
"Investor's Business Daily."
Please
take two minutes to read this.
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-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 around180 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.