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Off Topic => Let's Talk Politics => Topic started by: Tiff on 01/20/09 - 11:18AM
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Subject: Fwd: London Times Sunday Article
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> Please note the date of this e-mail, so that when it's announced
> after the swearing in of our new president and he gets the credit for
> ending the war, you will at least know the truth. This was sent out
> 11-28-08.
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> We probably won't be seeing this news coverage in most of the
> papers, nor on most TV news channels.
>
> 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
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> By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
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> 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 .
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>
> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> 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.
>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.'
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> 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.'
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>
> 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 doesn't seem to
> consider this historic event a big story.
>
>
> Copyright 2008 Investor's Business Daily. All Rights Reserved.
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> 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.
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It'll be evident even more in how the media will cover Afghanistan with Barry in office.