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We NEVER lost a significant military engagement in Viet Nam but the media has everyone thinking we did. Tet 68 was an overwhelming defeat for the north vietnamese, but ask the US public about it and you would think American forces were soundly beaten.

The US media was instrumental in making vietnam the mess it became. Likewise, the US press was complicit in the treasonous announcement by swimmer kennedy that he wished the iraqi terrorists would turn up the heat on US forces so Bush would have to pull out of iraq. Attacks, which had been on the decrease, suddenly surged, starting with the fallujah incident.

An iraqi terrorist, when interviewed, stated that they were not listening to OBL, they were listening to kennedy and took heart from his statements - kennedy, via the US media, was directly responsible for the four civilians murdered in fallujah and the following conflagration there.

The press is aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States from their position of Bush hatred and "blame America first" liberal biases. There was a day when treason was punishable by death.......oops, I'm wishing for "the good old days" again - sigh.

Absolutely right. Winning is everything.

When your enemy (the liberal Dem media) is unprincipled, one has to stay resolute on key priorities. Witness Dem/Media resistance to the First Gulf War -- followed by criticism for not taking out Saddam, as the Dem/Media switched positions to attack from a different direction. That criticism may well have been followed by accusations that too many soldiers were lost in Baghdad, there was no plan, we're in a quagmire, we have no exit strategy.

It is totally predictable, as was the converse during Bosnia and Kosovo under Clinton. Not a peep when we let caravans of war criminals like Karadzic and Mladic pass through our checkpoints and huge refugee problems were created by relying exclusively on bombing at 15,000 feet while knocking out bridge and other infrastructure. Every misstep was treated lightly by the Media, which provided context, perspective and excuses wherever possible to soften the impact. Did anyone mention looting back then?

Unlike Vietnam, Bush should not allow the media to set constraints, to tie our hands behind our backs, to restrict our ability to mine actionable intelligence, to release dangerous prisoners. The Dem/Media will criticize Bush on every aspect of his conduct of the war, but if he wins their criticism will not resonate, i.e., it will be discounted, by voters. If Bush wins, America wins.