Posted on 03/13/2007 10:20:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
How f*cking stupid do you have to be to work for CNN? Did they really think there would be some people who said we can't win in Iraq but we will win in Iraq? The truth is not subject to a vote. We are winning in Iraq. We win by giving the Iraqi government, all of ten months old, the ability to fight off those who want to destabilize it using terror tactics against civilians. As that government stands up, we win.
By any objective measure things are going better in Iraq than CNN would ever admit. The big things went well. Saddam's regime is gone. He and his sons are gone. A constitution has been ratified and free elections with very high participation have been successfully held three times.
The short term picture looks a ot better than it did three months ago. The surge is working. Al Sadr is exposed as a coward. He and some of his people headed for the hills and the remainder are negotiating with the government to avoid being killed. The Sunni tribes are helping the Coalition forces in kicking Al Qaida out of Anbar province. The Iraqi government is taking over security responsibility in more areas. VBIED factories are being raided - based on tips from the civilian population. Displaced families are returning to Baghdad. Al Qaida in Iraq operatives, including higher ranking ones are being killed and captured daily.
The media, especially Newsweek and CNN are backed into a corner and playing their last card - exploiting wounded veterans. They thought reporting just troop casualties would give them their "Walter Cronkite" moment where they, the media, would once again "end" a war. They would really just be abandoning the people of another country to misery, mayhem, torture and death but let's not split hairs, "ending the war" sounds better. But American casualties have been maddeningly constant for three years now and the people still weren't taking to the streets. So they went to Plan B - Iraqi civilian lives suddenly became valuable. When Saddam was killing thousands per month it meant nothing. But if Al Qaida and indigenous terrorists killed civilians suddenly those lives became precious. A car bomb killing fifty Iraqis got almost as much air time as a car chase in L.A. But the public is still not marching on Washington so the media are desperate. The same wounded veterans whose heroism they ignored are suddenly poster children in their new role, victims of government neglect. There is no greater hypocrisy imaginable than for the MSM to accuse anyone else of ignoring our military.
A poll by CCN says...... click, I am gone.
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I'm pretty sure we can't win Iraq - Iraq is not an isolated entity. To win, we need to win in Syria and Iran, too.
We also lack the will to do the brutal things that victory requires.
Finally.
Confirming what we really knew all along:
"Less than half of Americans think..."
It would seem that the number of those who support a war is of little consequence given they win.
"Less than half of Americans think the United States can win the war in Iraq, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday"
CNN? That means less than half of LIBERALS think the US can win.
BIG difference.
Terrorism is just a tactic, a tactic which is effective only upon those personally affected by the terrorist act, UNLESS that act is reported and magnified and discussed and fretted about and forced into the conciousness of millions of people thousands of miles away from the scene of the act. Terrorism depends upon the media for its effectiveness.
Propaganda is a component of psychological operations, which fall under the umbrella of information operations. Counter propaganda is a tactical psyops mission to protect the troops from the effects of enemy propaganda, but strategic counter propaganda to mitigate the effects of enemy propaganda on domestic target audiences is against the law. Our military psychological operators can't help us. The success of the enemy's partial regime change last November means the law will not be changed soon.
Who does strategic counter propaganda for American target audiences?
We do.
You have it exactly right. D*mn you should have a job state side working the legal Civ angle of the information component of this WOT.
You understand it completely and clearly. Way too many don't. Especially those in positions of "potential" influence on the matter (if only they understood).
Half of Americans cannot find Iraq on a map.
A lot of it has to do with the personality types who are attracted to a life in which words are more important than deeds.
Well put, and a great thread to visit and forward to others:
Pictures of Iraq success stories here [lots o' graphics]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792428/posts
Reminds me of the old Diogenesis "Gotta See This" posts.
When government fails, we the people must step up.
Do me a favor and look at some of my blog posts and comment on a couple. Your input would be valuable for the lovely and talented Cannonette's conference prep.
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