Seeing Over Kerry, Finding Reality in Iraq

unspun.info ^ | 10/30/2004 | Arlen Williams

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Seeing Over Kerry, Finding Reality in Iraq Saturday, October 30, 2004  -  Arlen Williams  -  http://www.unspun.info/iraqreality.html

In his campaign's final week, John Kerry seemed to base the selling of a would-be Presidency upon his mock certainty that 377 tons of very high explosives were looted from Iraq's Al Qa Qaa complex.  This, despite a collection of inconclusive and conflicting accounts and reconnaissance.

But on a broader level, Kerry is just depending upon his renowned ability to spin the public into profound confusion and self-doubt about their heavily invested war effort.  Who better for this challenge than the Naval Lieutenant who mastered the feat thirty-three years ago, after direct counsel with our communist Vietnamese enemy?  Back then, after Kerry lied, two million died.  And now he finds the main drain media even more eager to be his comrades.

Observing the media's harmonizing with Senator Kerry, Democratic candidates down the ballot decided to lip-sync his song.  Hearken to the ol' theme and follow the bouncing ballad:

And it's one-two-three, what are we fighting for?

Don't you know that we don't give a damn?

Don't care about no Vietn-um-Iraq....

Wait, this needs some updating, John.

And it's one-two-three, what are we campaigning with?

Don't you know that we don't need the facts?

We'll just say what we choose about Iraq....

Psychologists tell us that when facing a crisis, one is apt to resort to his most deep-seated reactions.  And Kerry, speaking through his media mouths has pulled his Iraq related propaganda from a familiar place very deep in his seat.  To list examples of the media bias and mailasecasting involved is like pointing to Yosemite and saying, "See? A couple trees."

Whatever of Manhattan-sized Al Qa Qaa was or was not looted, that is one set of facts among many that scream out for perspective.  Among the facts, Iraq was a California-sized arsenal and our coalition did not have enough troops availed or available, to prevent a small portion of arms from being looted.

So, what would Kerry have done if he were President -- come up with more troops, more devoted to serve under a Vietnam War traitor?  Or, as his "No" vote on our 1991 Operation Desert Shield/Storm indicates, would he have failed to counter the continuously plotting threat the Duefler Report labels Saddam's Iraq to have been?  The media doesn't really ask and Kerry doesn't tell us anything hopeful, that counters his long, long track record of un-development and un-commitment in defense and intelligence.

After this campaign gambit touting a possible 377 tons of munitions lost of an estimated 400,000+ tons captured is played upon us ad nauseum, perhaps Americans want to know what progress may actually be occurring in the nation formerly wielded like a sword in a mass murdering, international terrorist and imperialist's hand.  But do we have media to this vital information, without having to glean tiny fragments out of 377 tons of campaign horserace blather and homicide bomb reports, or from the buried mentions and back pages of newspapers?

Yes, truth and perspective are out there, on the 'net.  There, we are reminded that the terrorists and insurgents are being steadily defeated, their leaders apprehended or killed.  Logical steps continue for freeing Falluja from arch-terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (who was in Iraq before we got there).  Samarra was taken with minimal loss of our troops.  And in the southeast, Muqtada al-Sadr's Shiite militiamen have given up Najaf.

Loss of American lives and of innocent Iraqis will continue, spotty perhaps, but each tragic.  Warfare may escalate for a few weeks.  And Iraqi's security forces are being recruited and trained.  Iraqis are well motivated to run their own country for a change and they are rebuilding their society.

Places to go, on Iraq

Web sites and blogs about our Iraq peacemaking abound, really.  Some of the best:

Liberating Iraq  -  well updated and including links to numerous other sites
http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com

The Truth about Iraq  -  a Web Central Station of Iraq reality
http://www.thetruthaboutiraq.org

littlegreenfootballs.com  -  there

, Iraq is put into the broader perspective of our Global War on Terror
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog

And a few days ago, I happened to find...

Pictures from Iraq
http://www.pbase.com/kburch/the_picture_from_iraq_you_wont_see_in_the_news

There they were.  Pictures.  Pictures of our devoted troops, men and women.  And free Iraqi citizens -- men, women and children.

Pictures of smiles and tender moments shared between uniformed Coalition liberators, now protectors, and the comforted and admiring little Iraqlets they defend.

A tense moment -- a soldier's eyes examining his surroundings, searching out any harm, an tiny infant lying placid his arms, wrapped in soft white and blue.

A pick-up baseball game played by local boys.

American soldiers healing Iraqi wounds.

Pictures of new freedom.  Pictures of basic human love.

Pictures unseen in "mainstream" American media.

A timeline is being followed leading to January and free elections in Iraq.  First, we here at home have an election and there is very little time.  Would that our election were free of warring against the truth upon which so precious lives here and across the world depend.

Instead, President Bush, a champion of freedom and like-minded candidates are opposed by a "leader" of the Democratic ticket whose twisted revilement would cause the jaws of both Joe McCarthy and Edward R. Murrow to drop, together.

Please enlist and fight for reality in this war.  Please share the truth with those you know and defend the cause of freedom and peace, Tuesday at the polls.


Special Link: Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal 
Free 42 minute streaming video of the critical documentary John Kerry's lawyers have threatened television broadcasters, to suppress.

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This is more generic version of a column in The Illinois Leader: "The truth is out there". It should be appearing at one or two additional Web sites. Please forgive the apparent self promotion. I thought it may help to pass this along, to any uncommitted voters you know.

You may also wish to see, "Kerry, Vietnam, Treachery - Have You Really Heard?" It is found on unspun.info and mensnewsdaily.com.

Please do check out the site with the pictures!

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good post!

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bump^

Iran - John Kerry's next Vietnam?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1262302/replies?c=16

[unspun]

Thanks. I think FR is a "tough audience" for FReepers!